Posted on 09/08/2014 4:44:34 PM PDT by mandaladon
Shut Up Already! Senate Dems Want To Amend The Constitution To Stop Koch Brothers’ Ads
Democratic Senators said Monday the Constitution must be amended, because people like Charles and David Koch must be stopped from flooding TV with negative ads Americans don’t want to see.
“A handful of super rich donors and giant corporations are now flooding our elections and determining entire narratives of closely contested races,” Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, said in a press conference Monday. “The American people are furious with the state of campaign finance in this country. They can’t stand the negative advertisements that are dominating the airways.”
Senator Amy Klobuchar agreed. “This Congress forgets what the people really care about,” she said. “They don’t want to see these ads. They don’t want to see this outside money.”
“These negative, poisonous, untruthful ads have just proliferated,” echoed Sen. Al Franken, and the American people “know this is wrong.”
The proposed amendment, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Tom Udall, would give Congress broad power to shape campaign finance laws. It would effectively overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC and 2014 ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC, which struck down laws restricting when corporations and unions can spend money on elections, and how much individuals can donate to candidates in a two-year period. This is “the most important issue to Americans in years,” added Sen. Bernie Sanders. “If people think this is some kind of esoteric issue, not related to jobs, the economy, and wages, and women’s rights, and income and wealth inequality, and healthcare and global warming, you are deadly wrong.”
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I agree! That asshat Soros must be stopped! Oh wait, they're talking about the Koch's???? Bahahahahahaha.......
What about all the LIB asshat unions?
Dear Sirs.
WIPE THEIR FACES WITH AN AD ANSWERING their SHRILL Propaganda...and Exposing thier Plans.
Thank you,
M.M.
“Shut up!”, he explained.
We've got to find immigrants to watch these ads for us or we may lose them!
Money is being spent to defeat their candidates. For purely partisan reasons, the Democrats want to undo the First Amendment.
Fortunately, voters see right through the ploy. It will not help them retain control of the Senate.
You never heard them complain when Unions and left wing “public interest” groups were ‘flooding our elections and determining entire narratives of closely contested races,”
Whenever the Libs and Demon-crats run into a brick wall re: the Constitution the first thing they want to do is change it to suit their agenda.
Well,either the Rat Party has lost faith in Americans' ability to manipulate an "off" button or they've lost faith in their own ability to effective counter the ads in question.
That is “effectively”
Zactly!
Note that regardless of election year saber-rattling by Senate Democrats concerning amending the Constitution, only the states, not the feds, can ratify a proposed amendment.
Negative ads work because the Democrats are not interested in addressing the concerns of Americans. They want to use their majority to advance idiotic proposals that accomplish nothing, waste time and try to show the Democrats can’t govern. They think as little of the voters as the voters must think of them.
I haven’t seen any of these in GA.......all I see are ads for Michelle Nunn and how much she trusts Obama - she “defers to his judgment.” I guess you could say she’s not a very good judge!!!!
When has the Democratic Party ever stood for freedom? When? They were the Party of Slavery through 1865. Then they were the Party of Jim Crow through 1965. While they aren’t that blatant anymore, they still have no qualms about trampling on the Constitution if it means more votes and power for them. At its core, the Democrat Party is about maintaining power by any means.
Open Secrets Shows Koch Campaign Money Dwarfed by Dozens of Other Groups,
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/02/17/open-secrets-shows-koch-campaign-money-dwarfed-dozens-other-groups-miscl
But Al Franken told me Dems are the “party of the ‘little guy’ “ and we have to “get the money out of politics” .
Your days are numbered
would george soros vote in favor of this?????
and the ads the soros funded groups put out?
and billionaire leftist bloomberg’s ads?
and the other several leftist activist billionaires putting out political ads through various groups?
and the ads the mega-rich unons put out?
and the ads that swimming in money pro-choice’groups put’out?
and the ads funded by the donations of leftist hollywood millionaires?
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