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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (129689)	2/1/2010 3:54:55 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541957

A corporation is also not endowed with the ability to speak. But it is a collection of people, who have the ability and right to speak either individually or as a group. People who join non-profit organizations that have people all of a like mind on certain subjects can pool their funds to obtain political advantage, but for-profit corporations are not comprised of people of like political mind. In fact they are largely made up of people who simply need a job. The decision affects non-profit corporations as well. They where restricted in their free speech before this decision. As for your distinction between reasons for joining - Employees in non-profit corporations probably agree broadly with its message, but many of them are in it for the paycheck almost as much, or sometimes as much, as those in for profit corporations. And for large non-profits (or if your comparing to very small for profit corporations) they may have about the same ability to determine the corporate message (which is to say, usually very little). Not that either point matters much, employees working for a paycheck are doing just that, there is no need for them to agree with the political message, any more than there is a need for someone working for a newspaper to agree with its editorial slant.