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3. Unfortunately, this is the logical conclusion of allowing money into politics in the first place

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Tue Aug 28, 2012, 03:09 PM

Aug 2012

Citizens United is not a required pre-requisite.

E.g., say you are an employee of a PR firm, and that firm is hired by the Romney camp. Should you be allowed to say "no" when you are expected to be "campaigning" for Romney. Or, perhaps it is a phone bank company and employees do not want to canvass for Romney?

Fundamentally, we need public funding of elections and volunteer labor for candidates.

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