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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCarter: Unchecked Contributions 'Legal Bribery'
Carter: Unchecked Contributions 'Legal Bribery'
By RAY HENRY Associated Press
Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that unchecked political contributions are "legal bribery of candidates" and denounced a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that made possible unlimited spending by outside groups, including corporations and labor unions.
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Carter spoke at a forum where an agency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe released its report on last year's U.S. election. The U.S. government invited the European agency to observe the process.
He said the U.S. Supreme Court made a "very stupid" decision by removing limits on independent campaign spending by businesses and labor unions, which the court found was a constitutionally protected form of political speech. The Democrat said that he and his Republican opponents used public financing to run their general election campaigns in 1976 and 1980.
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Carter said that while elections in the United States once set an example for the world, the country's reputation diminished in 2000 when the U.S. Supreme Court intervened in a Florida vote recount, effectively deciding the election in favor of Republican George W. Bush. He also criticized GOP-led state legislatures for changing polling hours in ways that Carter said were meant to frustrate likely Democratic voters.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/carter-unlimited-contributions-legal-bribery-19687763
By RAY HENRY Associated Press
Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that unchecked political contributions are "legal bribery of candidates" and denounced a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that made possible unlimited spending by outside groups, including corporations and labor unions.
<...>
Carter spoke at a forum where an agency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe released its report on last year's U.S. election. The U.S. government invited the European agency to observe the process.
He said the U.S. Supreme Court made a "very stupid" decision by removing limits on independent campaign spending by businesses and labor unions, which the court found was a constitutionally protected form of political speech. The Democrat said that he and his Republican opponents used public financing to run their general election campaigns in 1976 and 1980.
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Carter said that while elections in the United States once set an example for the world, the country's reputation diminished in 2000 when the U.S. Supreme Court intervened in a Florida vote recount, effectively deciding the election in favor of Republican George W. Bush. He also criticized GOP-led state legislatures for changing polling hours in ways that Carter said were meant to frustrate likely Democratic voters.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/carter-unlimited-contributions-legal-bribery-19687763
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Carter: Unchecked Contributions 'Legal Bribery' (Original Post)
ProSense
Jul 2013
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madrchsod
(58,162 posts)1. to sum it up...
we will have to work even harder to keep what we have,consolidate our gains,and only then can we move into the future.
looks like i won't be around but i sure hope the future for the kids and grandkids is better than what is today.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)2. Carter: "Snowden bad, but..."
It's the ". . ." you seem to keep ignoring
ProSense
(116,464 posts)3. Are you in the wrong thread?
LOL!
burnodo
(2,017 posts)4. Only if you were in he wrong thread before
burnodo
(2,017 posts)6. A sign that you're losing it?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)7. You're the one posting in the wrong thread.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)8. Only if you were in the wrong thread before
ProSense
(116,464 posts)9. That response makes no sense, but
don't sweat it.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)10. You accusing someone of making no sense?
It is to laugh