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Reaktioner på USA:s HD:s domslut om det amerikanska valsystemet.

Skrivet av Lennart on January 22, 2010
Posted Under: President Obama,Samhälle

Reaktionen på USA:s Högsta Domstols beslut att upphäva alla begränsingar på politiska donationer hatr varit många.

David D. Kirkpatrick skriver i New York Times om den gängse synen pÃ¥ HD:s radikala beslut och vilka effekter det kommer att fÃ¥: Lobbyists Get Potent Weapon in Campaign Finance Ruling – NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON ‘ The Supreme Court has handed a new weapon to lobbyists. If you vote wrong, a lobbyist can now tell any elected official that my company, labor union or interest group will spend unlimited sums explicitly advertising against your re-election. ‘We have got a million we can spend advertising for you or against you ‘ whichever one you want,’ ‘ a lobbyist can tell lawmakers, said Lawrence M. Noble, a lawyer at Skadden Arps in Washington and former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission. … It is expected to unleash a torrent of attack advertisements from outside groups aiming to sway voters, without any candidate having to take the criticism for dirty campaigning.

Den kände bloggaren Juan Cole har en helt annan åsikt på sin blogg Informed Comment: Informed Comment: Is the Supreme Court Decision so Important in a Web 2.0 World?
Can Corporations Compete in ‘Pull’ Media

The first thing to say is that it is not as if corporate interests were not already deeply involved in the electoral process. For instance, it has come out that five insurance companies funneled big money into attack ads against insurance reform. How?

 

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