{"id":184625,"date":"2010-01-13T08:32:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/2010\/01\/13\/giving-corporations-an-outsized-voice-in-elections.html"},"modified":"2010-01-13T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T13:32:40","slug":"giving-corporations-an-outsized-voice-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/184625","title":{"rendered":"Giving Corporations an Outsized Voice in Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Corporations are pitching a bizarre
\nproduct — a radical vision of the 1st Amendment. It would give
\ncorporations rather than voters a central role in our electoral process
\nby treating corporate political spending as protected speech. If this
\nvision becomes reality, businesses and other big-money players will
\nspend billions either hyping their preferred candidates or running
\nattack ads against elected officials who don’t support their preferred
\nagenda. Voters will be forced into a couch-potato role, mere viewers of
\nthe electoral spectacle bought and paid for by wealthy companies.’<\/font><\/p>\n

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‘Corporations are pitching a bizarre product — a radical vision of the 1st Amendment. It would give corporations rather than voters a central role in our electoral process by treating corporate political spending as protected speech. If this vision becomes reality, businesses and other big-money players will spend billions either hyping their preferred candidates or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}