{"id":32626,"date":"2013-02-25T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/corporations-are-voters-my-friend.html"},"modified":"2013-02-25T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:56:42","slug":"corporations-are-voters-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/corporations-are-voters-my-friend.html","title":{"rendered":"Corporations are voters, my friend"},"content":{"rendered":"
Well, they vote with their lobbying money and their campaign contributions. \u00a0But along the line of the personhood of corporations, a Montana Repulican state legislator floated a bill that would give local corporations actual votes in municipal elections.<\/p>\n

And, yeah, it was immediately tabled, and everyone has a good laugh. But how long from it going from a laugh, to something given rhetorical lip service, to full-fledged partisan push, to a reality that gets thrown out in court, to a reality that a conservative SCOTUS decides is, well, y'know, right in keeping with Citizens United?<\/i><\/p>\n

I'm not laughing.<\/p>\n

Next up: "God gave corporations inalienable rights. It says it right there in the Declaration of Independence, so all the Founding Fathers clearly intended it." \u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

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Montana Bill Would Give Corporations The Right To Vote | ThinkProgress<\/a>
\n A bill introduced by Montana state Rep. Steve Lavin would give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections: Provision for vote by corporate property owner. (1) Subject to subsection (2), if …\n <\/p>\n


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Well, they vote with their lobbying money and their campaign contributions. \u00a0But along the line of the personhood of corporations, a Montana Repulican state legislator floated a bill that would give local corporations actual votes in municipal elections. And, yeah, it was immediately tabled, and everyone has a good laugh. 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