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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
However - a COMPANY or UNION who sends a representative to congress to LOBBY, or pays for an ad supporting a specific candidate - cannot honestly claim to have everyone in the "group" fully in support.
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I kind of agree with you in a general sense but playing devils advocate neither can it be claimed that they
don't have that group support and as far as I know the constitution doesn't say a company or union must prove that before it is allowed to speak.
Besides I know plenty of union guys who have taken their turn walking picket lines when they'd rather be inside earning their pay, but if they crossed the line the union would see to it they were fired. So in reality those protesters might not be all that supportive of what they're protesting but rather just trying to protect their livelihoods.