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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (129308)	1/26/2010 12:48:09 PM
From: Paul Kern	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542009

2. If you associate with other like-minded individuals, the government has the right to stifle your collective speech The association can recommend that its members donate to candidate Silverhair or candidate Blowhard and the corporation can recommend that its stockholders and employees donate to candidate Silverhair or candidate Blowhard .

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (129308)	1/26/2010 5:27:13 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542009

If you associate with other like-minded individuals, the government has the right to stifle your collective speech Well, this is the whole argument isn't it? And that is exactly my point in that a corporation can't in any stretch of the definition include people of "like minds". It just doesn't! Whether you are a shareholder or an employee at big corporations you are as likely to be on one edge of the political spectrum as the other. Soooo, how can you even pretend to be representing - or speaking for - your owners or employee's? steve