05-20-2012, 07:37 PM
(05-20-2012, 06:31 PM)Disciple Wrote: Anyone else think that eliminating the Electoral Collage and specifically legislating that corporations are NOT people under the law would be a good place to start?
I agreed with the 2010 Bi-Partisan Reform Act that eventually got shot down. The court's ruling that it was against the first amendment rights of the corporations and unions to limit their contributions to candidates essentially did equate to considering corporations to be "people" and considered money to be "speech". This needs to change, imo. I believe these are among the complaints of the Occupy movement group as well.
We need financial election reform ahead of considering the electoral college abolishment, imo. I believe it's the corruption within the system, rather than the system itself, that needs to be addressed immediately.
On a related note, I read this a couple of days back at the CNN site; it's astounding the amount of money these candidates are raking in.
The (Obama) campaign had $115,157,432.79 cash on hand after raising $25.7 million that month (April). Combined with other Democratic efforts, including the Democratic National Committee, they raised $43.6 million in April, slightly more than the $40.1 million GOP candidate Mitt Romney and his allies raised. Romney ended the month with $104 million cash on hand.