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Bob Kerrey: As Supreme Court hears landmark campaign finance case, missing is a public funding solution both sides can get behind.
When the United States Supreme Court today rehears the campaign finance case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC), it will be calling into question no less than sixty years of established precedent limiting corporate spending in... Full Article at Huffington Post
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Overturning the court's precedents on corporate election expenditures would be a disaster
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Robust debate about candidates for elective office is the most fundamental value protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech ... Yet that is precisely the dialogue that the government has prohibited if practiced by unions or corporations.
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We don't put our First Amendment rights in the hands of FEC bureaucrats
