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jsmirman

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8. Thanks, Ruby. Anyone rejecting DISCLOSE is like, you must be kidding me

Reply to Ruby the Liberal (Reply #7)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 04:08 PM

Nov 2012

That is an act that simply must, as a minimum, be put into play.

We had the former head of the FEC come speak to us at my law school and that guy was like, "well, we will have the DISCLOSE ACT..."

Ay yi yi.

It's the minimum we were promised with this crappy decision!

It's like "The Supreme Court gave us this crappy decision and we didn't even get t-shirts"!!!

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It would be an ENORMOUS MISTAKE to back off on CITIZENS UNITED [View all] jsmirman Nov 2012 OP

The first step is to convince the ACLU to reverse their position and oppose Citizens United. nt hack89 Nov 2012 #1

I think they really have it wrong, but that's a longer conversation jsmirman Nov 2012 #3

I've been saying the same thing. cleduc Nov 2012 #2

We've got to get people to get loud, stay loud, stay involved in this issue jsmirman Nov 2012 #9

Kick - I'm not backing off of this one - if you care, too, kick this up the board jsmirman Nov 2012 #4

Do not be fools!!! Do not let this sink jsmirman Nov 2012 #5

With some (but not too many - wake up!!!) apologies, I'm going to keep kicking this jsmirman Nov 2012 #6

Saw a quote this weekend where DISCLOSE is being reintroduced this term. Ruby the Liberal Nov 2012 #7

Thanks, Ruby. Anyone rejecting DISCLOSE is like, you must be kidding me jsmirman Nov 2012 #8

Anyone? Is my 4,000th post going to have to be a kick??? jsmirman Nov 2012 #10

we need public financing of election everybody gets the same amount klyon Nov 2012 #11

Not sure what would be legal within all that jsmirman Nov 2012 #12