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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

NRA Deal on Campaign Finance Bill Angers Liberals

http://powerful-gun.blogspot.com/

On Monday, news broke that House Democrats had brokered a deal with the National Rifle Association to get the powerful gun lobbying group to drop its opposition to a piece of legislation designed to address the Supreme Court's controversial Citizen's United decision allowing corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money on campaign advertizing.

Democrats, including President Obama, widely condemned the decision as opening the door to manipulation of elections on the part of domestic and foreign corporations. The legislation crafted to address it - known as the DISCLOSE act, and proposed by Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in the House and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in the Senate - mandates that the corporations and unions spending on campaigns and running political advertising publicly identify top donors and related information.

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