If 'free speech' is a right, why all the secrecy? Why hide from voters where the money is coming from? Why not openly say you're down-right proud to be exercising your first amendment right, and that writing checks is your patriotic duty?
Instead, conservatives across the country are fighting to keep their sugar daddies secret.
According to their guardian angel in Congress, the highly-leveraged Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the right wing opposes disclosure laws because the super-rich might be bullied and harassed by the rest of us who want to know who's buying our elections. So that editorial page of the Wall Street Journal asked us to have pity on billionaires, and those little old corporations, and their CEO's who might have their tender feelings hurt if they were exposed to boycotts and pickets, were it known which candidates they were buying.
Wait a minute. Weren't we taught that the first amendment guarantees the right of citizens to assemble and petition, even to boycott and picket?
-- Bill Moyers, on the strong republican desire to keep the Super Pac money trail a secret
Oh, Bill, if I were as smart and articulate as you, this is exactly what I would have said.
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