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To: mph who wrote (344968)	1/22/2010 1:50:45 PM
From: Alan Smithee	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793766

Huckabee was on one of the Fox shows last night. His remark was the decision was correct. He feels that there should be no restrictions on contributions, but full disclosure should be made. As he put it, if my opponent is supported by Exxon to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, I will make an issue about it in the campaign.

To: mph who wrote (344968)	1/22/2010 2:12:59 PM
From: MrLucky	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793766

Smack in the face to incumbents. Makes liberals unhappy where they have gerrymandered themselves into a permanent job and had Mc/Fein covering their backs. Also, they lose some advantage in the union support arena since Corps can respond in kind.

To: mph who wrote (344968)	1/23/2010 10:00:35 AM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793766

Newsflash: First Amendment Upheld An end to giving political speech less protection than pornography. JANUARY 22, 2010, 6:53 P.M. ET. By BRADLEY A. SMITH Thursday's Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, in which the Court struck down a blanket government prohibition on corporate political speech, is a wonderful decision that restores political speech to the primacy it was intended to have under the First Amendment. To truly appreciate the stakes in Citizens United, one must remember the government's legal position in the case. Implicit in its briefs but laid bare at oral argument, the government maintained that the Constitution allows the government to ban distribution of books over Amazon's Kindle; to prohibit a union from hiring a writer to author a book titled, "Why Working Americans Should Support the Obama Agenda"; and to prohibit Simon & Schuster from publishing, or Barnes & Noble from selling, a book containing even one line of advocacy for or against a candidate for public office. As David Barry would say, "I am not making this up." The Court said "no," and the only shocking thing about the decision is that the four liberal justices said "yes." Hopefully, this ruling marks an end to 20 years of jurisprudence in which the Court has provided less protection to core political speech than it has to Internet pornography, the transmission of stolen ... Message 26267638