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31 Reasons Why We Need New Representation in District 31
Postings start on August 1st, 2017!​

# 18 - Money & Politics

8/14/2017

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Let’s face it.  The Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court has thoroughly corrupted our financial campaign system.  The notion that corporations are people is just beyond bizarre.  It opens the door to “entities” being able to vote, hold office, and do all the inalienable rights that we have as individuals.   This ruling has also tainted the PAC system.  No one knows where the money is coming from, how much is being contributed, and where it is going.  It gives a whole new meaning to a black hole.  Limits and full disclosures on campaign contributions means that no one person or entity is controlling our candidates and elected officials.  It helps to ensure that that democracy is free from the influence of the few.  Campaign limits have no baring or restrictions on 1st amendment free speech rights.  In fact, it ensures that everyone has the same equal voice in our political process. John Carter accepts tons of big money from outside District 31.  The outside influence of special interests has made him anything but a representative of our area.  There are two paths to fix Carter’s special interest influence.  A constitutional amendment to fix the Citizens United ruling and/or appointing Supreme Court justices that will overturn the ruling.  My campaign has never taken outside special interest big money.  It was that way in 2016 and will stay that way in 2018!  The people of Williamson and Bell County are the ones that I listen to.  They are the ones that I will represent in Washington come January 2019!
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Ronald Dumont
2/28/2018 03:04:09 pm

What astonishes me is that a law clerk making a written note on a legal case Leger was allowed to stand as a legal precedent for the last 142 years as a basis for letting corporations exploit the use as a Natural person and granting constitutional protections to evade taxation, financial, and environmental responsibility for the actions of these Corporations by our own Supreme court!

Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 118 US 394 (1886) is a United States corporate law case of the United States Supreme Court on taxation of railroad properties.

A head note issued by the Court Reporter claimed to state the sense of the Court regarding the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as it applies to corporations, without the Court having actually made a decision or issued a written opinion on that issue.

This was the first time that the Supreme Court was reported to hold that the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause granted constitutional protections to corporations as well as to natural persons.

This has overtly given way to the abuse of individuals, local, and state resources without any real consequence for this corporate malfeasance and over criminal mentality!

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Nick link
1/14/2021 04:29:02 pm

Thanks ffor this

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