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02-15-2010, 05:15 PM
Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress
February 2, 2010, New York Times
https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/corporation-says-it-will-run-for-congress/ (https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/corporation-says-it-will-run-for-congress/)
Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what it believes to be “democracy’s next step”: It is running for Congress. With more than a twinge of irony, Murray Hill Incorporated, a liberal public relations firm, recently announced that it planned to run in the Republican primary in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District.
February 2, 2010, New York Times
https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/corporation-says-it-will-run-for-congress/ (https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/corporation-says-it-will-run-for-congress/)
Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what it believes to be “democracy’s next step”: It is running for Congress. With more than a twinge of irony, Murray Hill Incorporated, a liberal public relations firm, recently announced that it planned to run in the Republican primary in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District.