citizens united uh... according to john mccain
though worst
superior court decision
that's what he said it was so um... for those of you who've been living under a
rock where they cave and who don't know what citizens united is
it's a visit from court cases where the supreme court are ruled that
uh... money equal speech and therefore our look political action committees
are are rather our corporations and unions and than anyone else can
uh... donate unlimited amounts into these super packed right uh... which
means that now ari elections are completely and attorney bought knives is
one of jenks um...
uh... passions i mean right he's working tirelessly to fight against this he
started a a separate pakad wolfpack
uh... he's working with uh... various leaders uh... stinging in congress and
in academia and
race activists
to try to get this out horrible decision overturned with a constitutional
amendment
i want to do a quick
uh... recap
who is contributor are super packs high so
because right now something let me just say that you know the idea that money to
thoroughly used to be locate at the beginning of our country
of somebody had an idea and they wanted to get the idea how they needed money to
go put to a printing press to print this things to get their leaflets out so that
so they needed somebody would give the money so they can get their message out
well now that kind of has been turned on its theory because now
that what the supreme court is saying is that yes um... the guy who gives you
money for your printing press
that money equals speech right so if i have a dollar
that dollar equal speech but if somebody has a hundred dollars now he has a
hundred more
uh...
attacked by the time to hav a hundred more speech than i do in our in our
political process
and that's what's wrong with its not equaled that everybody gets the equal
speech right and so that's the big problem here and now because their
ability but sit there controlling government without this now imagine how
much more they're going to be controlling government right so
basically uh...
in in senate and at what and congressional races
uh... the person with more money when sonya four percent of the time ninety
four percent so it doesn't matter who has a better idea it doesn't matter who
the who cares more about the country all that matters is who has more money
on rare occasions that have more money loses by this prize situation when
when the differential is that starts
but i think you need to take one side with a tremendous amount of money goes i
would
what a lot less
it's over oss especially in art and the digital age route where you know the
airwaves of the internet is flooded with uh... very misleading ads whoever has
more money
whoever misleads more usually wins
did this this uh... this decision by the strip the beds comport as a
is that there is a predecessors in
uh... because
justice kennedy who i thought was a fairly rational visual person
wrote in his opinion that
not only does it not corrupt the political process but it doesn't even
give the appearance of corrupting the political process which is
unbelievable be at the end of two hundred yes go ahead people and said is
that it is a case that
all sides are
are running around the tea party members and
and uh...
and doctor five people
uh... the regular forty seven percent urs yes and i never centers
nobody likes this idea of rebel citizen for rich people yet so what do you know
government citizens united is like the replacement rats of politics everybody
can come together if he gets that you're right
and it's amazing that it got pushed through
under some really weird i think i don't i can see just aliya voting for it i can
see roberts going okay because their corporate tools but again that kennedy
it's like a really
you don't see the problem with this and uh... they date i guess they don't see
the bomb with this so we'll come
john mccain came out today and he's making a big is making a lot of noise
about it right yeah so john can you look at the key is that he's a bit of a crazy
person so i think he's he's a crazy military faulty things we should
yet to wage war all others are all there is a problem we can start with the
missile in the dawn layout
sun dot com dot frontpage really decide this like him
however he is a very principled person in certain areas and this is one of them
and
assistant this commitment to campaign finance has been pretty strongly he
passed up
if i go about to get it passed yesterday finance reform
and attorney he is still very much uh... uh... impassioned by this particular
issue and he cannot visit was a worst supreme court decision ever so so when
you have to rely on the guy who picks era pale and to be our vice president
if you rely on that guy to be the voice of reason that's how bad it our politics
yet and you know i'm actually disappointed what is another area where
this point with with that president obama because
he's done really nothing
to uh... address this issue citizens united
says that it campaign finance
he he he mentioned a a few times how i feel like we're running out of politics
but you know if he accepts money like everyone else and in fact physically
quite a master at yet although in his defense he does get money
uh... in a smaller amounts for more people
which is better that just getting off of one corporation whose buys that
he did that he was that he did raise the mostly from wall street just doesn't
make it any candidate previous to best route to so and then you wonder why we
did we get to fl is bank reform which is what happened we got dodds frank which
doesn't really solve the problem
that environments there's a problem says what says that it might politics because
uh... the money goes egos to uh... controlled the politicians who favor
their corporate donors or the border any donors for that matter
rather than the constituent write this so obvious