{"id":278998,"date":"2010-02-04T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100204\/0136568042.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:45:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:45:36","slug":"company-decides-to-run-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/278998","title":{"rendered":"Company Decides To Run For Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, we jokingly pointed out that with the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling on how corporations were people, a company like Google could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100201\/1903207997.shtml\">run for President<\/a>.  Well, it appears that others have the same basic idea.  A PR firm in Maryland has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/02\/corporation-says-it-will-run-for-congress\/\" >it&#8217;s running for Congress<\/a> in Maryland&#8217;s 8th District and has put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HHRKkXtxDRA&#038;feature=player_embedded\" >nice campaign ad<\/a>:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HHRKkXtxDRA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HHRKkXtxDRA&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100204\/0136568042.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100204\/0136568042.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100204\/0136568042&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=023123cbda0358810c70b9cd417176ea&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=023123cbda0358810c70b9cd417176ea&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=Ou0Ff7r-7tI:lIpcVpwDRaI:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=Ou0Ff7r-7tI:lIpcVpwDRaI:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=Ou0Ff7r-7tI:lIpcVpwDRaI:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/Ou0Ff7r-7tI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, we jokingly pointed out that with the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling on how corporations were people, a company like Google could run for President. Well, it appears that others have the same basic idea. A PR firm in Maryland has announced that it&#8217;s running for Congress in Maryland&#8217;s 8th District and has put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278998","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}