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Answer to the Court: the American Elections For Americans Only Act of 2010
By Brent Budowsky - 01/24/10 08:45 PM ET
The elected President and Congress should answer the unelected Supreme Court with by passing what I call the American Elections for Americans Only Act of 2010. According to the recent Gallup poll following the Court decision, 76% of voters believe that elected officials should regulate American corporate political spending. I believe my proposal would garner support from more than 90% of our voters who are tired of outsourcing our jobs, our finance, and our strength in the world and are outraged at the prospect of outsourcing the buying of our democracy and our nation.
In my proposal Congress would prohibit the kind of spending prohibited by McCain- Feingold by any public company, private company, or corporate entity that receives foreign finance or investment. I do not believe the Supreme Court would find this law unconsitutional, but if it did, there should be a constitutional amendment that would overwhelmingly pass because the American people will demand that American elections be for Americans only.
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Do we want foreign investors who oppose the state of Israel, or covertly support Osama Bin Laden, to influence the spending of many millions of dollars to buy American elections?
Do we want the massive investment of Chinese money in America to give the Chinese government a massive power to influence American elections by pushing for millions of dollars of campaign spending to defeat members of Congress who defend American interests?
The list is endless. [snip]
We already know that foreign banks were bailed out by American taxpayers through the AIG bailout, and that foreign banks already use too much influence through American subsidiaries to influence the Congress on their behalf.
The Supreme Court decision will let loose an even greater flood of influence peddling, negative attack ads, distortions of our democracy, the functional equivalent of bribery to buy votes, and blackmail to threaten those who cast votes, and the full panoply of abuses that American voters hold in strong contempt in what is clearly a populist wave of discontent sweeping the nation.
The Supreme Court left the issues of foreign influence and domination that I raise here undecided. Lets decide them. Lets agree that American elections are for Americans only, a proposition that I believe will be supported by an overwhelming majority of the nation including the left, right, center and the true tea party patriots and I predict that any politician who opposes the American Elections for America Act will be defeated at the polls.
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