[EL] Sen. Sanders and Citizens United

[Cheryl L. Conner]

I think he and his team understand the distinction but are using the case
name and its symbolism  as a short-hand for election finance reforms,
generally.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Mark Scarberry <
mark.scarberry at pepperdine.edu> wrote:

> I realize that he could argue that Citizens United led to SpeechNow, so
> that overruling of Citizens United might allow contribution limits on PACs.
> It wouldn't prevent the super-rich from spending individually. The
> super-rich could still spend their own money.
>
> Is it too much to expect Sen. Sanders to draw that distinction?
>
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> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 8:56 AM -0700, "Mark Scarberry" <
> mark.scarberry at pepperdine.edu> wrote:
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> Didn't Sen. Sanders make the usual mistake in saying that Citizens United
>> opened the door to unlimited campaign spending by the rich?
>>
>> From the prepared text of the speech he gave yesterday:
>>
>> "This election is about overturning Citizens United, one of the worst
>> Supreme Court decisions in the history of our country. That decision allows
>> the wealthiest people in America, like the billionaire Koch brothers, to
>> spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying elections and, in the process,
>> undermine American democracy."
>>
>> Is it likely that this is an honest mistake? That's a genuine question. I
>> don't know how sophisticated he and his advisors may be. Would it have been
>> as politically effective if he instead had said that Buckley should be
>> partially overruled? (Obviously, the answer to that second question is
>> "no.")
>>
>> I'm also curious whether any of the campaign spending this cycle has been
>> by corporations controlled by the extremely rich (other than some media
>> corporations that would have claimed refuge under Austin)?
>>
>> Mark Scarberry
>>
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