re: #275 BryanS

The solution to the “special interest” concern is not to prevent spending money, but mandate disclosure and transparency. If some Evil Corporation donates too much money to a campaign, there will be hell to pay when the other side makes that a campaign issue.

And sorry, but money is speech, and very much an integral part of enabling assembly as the rights are laid out in the first amendment. The Internet may very well be the closest thing we ever had to leveling the playing field, but even there, money helps get your message heard.

Free speech is meaningless unless you have the right to affect how well it is heard. The right of assembly inherently recognizes this.

Which is exactly what Citizens does…the total opposite of. There are plenty of legal tricks used to hide the ownership of a corporation. Shares held in trust, etc. Those will ALL be used next election. There is no way to stay within the Supreme Court ruling and at the same time mandate disclosure and transparency. It would require a complete rewrite of US corporate law.