Hightower -- A Little Less Corporate Political Corruption

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/29-1

Obama is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court's dastardly Citizens United edict.

Come on, Obama, do it. Stand up, stand tall, stand firm. Yes, you can!

President Barack Obama is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court's dastardly Citizens United edict, which unleashes unlimited amounts of secret corporate cash to pervert America's elections.
Obama's idea is simply to require that those corporations trying to get federal contracts disclose all of their campaign donations for the previous two years, including money they launder through such front groups as the Chamber of Commerce.


More at the link --

[xchrom]

1. Love me some Hightower. Nt

[jwirr]

2. I hope President Obama actually does it. If not we have a much harder

time getting our voices heard at the polls.