We’ve had a very exciting month here at Public Citizen and the good news is it’s only half over. In case you missed it, our new president, Robert Weissman, started this week. Check out his introductory blog post and leave him a comment to let him know what issues are important to you. Robert picked a great week to begin his Public Citizen tenure — President Obama laid out his health care plan, the Supreme Court heard arguments on one of its most important cases in years and we commemorated the 8th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
We’ve blogged quite a bit about Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, the case the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. Our new president explains why you should care about this case over at the Huffington Post:
Yet the Supreme Court may actually roll back the limits on corporate electoral spending now in place. These limits are very inadequate, but they do block unlimited spending from corporate treasuries to influence election outcomes. Rolling back those limits will unleash corporations to ramp up their spending still further, with a potentially decisive chilling effect on candidates critical of the Chamber of Commerce agenda.
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