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CaptainHaplo · 01-21-10, 07:23 PM

It shouldn't be challenging at all. It should be downright easy.

If you can vote in the election in question - you can contribute to the campaign. If you can't pull a lever or feed the ballot to a machine, then you cannot fund the campaign.

Also - this is a horrible decision. The freedom of speech is reserved for individuals or "groups" - aka LIKE MINDED individuals - not corporations or unions. Corporations and Unions are made up of people with diverse political views, as well as both of these have a vested BUSINESS related interest in the outcome of elections that goes BEYOND the individual interest. To extend a PERSONAL right to a corporation or union, PAC or lobby group, is to pervert the purpose of Freedom of Speech. It was intended so that every person could be heard, not so that every person could be drowned out by a special interest.

01-21-10, 07:23 PM	#3
CaptainHaplo Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 4,404 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	It shouldn't be challenging at all. It should be downright easy. If you can vote in the election in question - you can contribute to the campaign. If you can't pull a lever or feed the ballot to a machine, then you cannot fund the campaign. Also - this is a horrible decision. The freedom of speech is reserved for individuals or "groups" - aka LIKE MINDED individuals - not corporations or unions. Corporations and Unions are made up of people with diverse political views, as well as both of these have a vested BUSINESS related interest in the outcome of elections that goes BEYOND the individual interest. To extend a PERSONAL right to a corporation or union, PAC or lobby group, is to pervert the purpose of Freedom of Speech. It was intended so that every person could be heard, not so that every person could be drowned out by a special interest. __________________ Good Hunting! Captain Haplo