To the people of Orlando: your long Florida nightmare may soon be over. Congressman Alan Grayson is up for re-election this year.
But in the mean time, he’s continuing his gasbaggery. He’s taking up President Obama’s mantle of intimidating the Supreme Court and has introduced several bills so political free speech can once again be squelched.
Grayson has introduced several pieces of legislation aimed at restricting political speech, according to the George Soros-funded Secretary of State Project. But first, a bit about that group.
SOS was formed to elect Secretaries of State around the country that will be tolerant of ACORN-style voter registration and Election Day shenanigans. The Minnesota recount debacle – and seating of Al Franken – came courtesy of Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, an SOS Project recruit.
So now the Soros-funded SOS Project is pushing Grayson’s package of bills. The interpretations of them come courtesy of SOS, not me:
1. The Business Should Mind Its Own Business Act (H.R. 4431): Implements a 500% excise tax on corporate contributions to political committees, and on corporate expenditures on political advocacy campaigns.
2. The Public Company Responsibility Act (H.R. 4435): Prevents companies making political contributions and expenditures from trading their stock on national exchanges.
3.The End Political Kickbacks Act (H.R. 4434): Prevents for-profit corporations that receive money from the government from making political contributions, and limits the amount that employees of those companies can contribute.
4. The Corporate Propaganda Sunshine Act (H.R. 4432): Requires publicly-traded companies to disclose in SEC filings money used for the purpose of influencing public opinion, rather than to promoting their products and services.
5. The Ending Corporate Collusion Act (H.R. 4433): Applies antitrust law to industry PACs.
6. The End the Hijacking of Shareholder Funds Act (H.R. 4487): This bill requires the approval of a majority of a public company’s shareholders for any expenditure by that company to influence public opinion on matters not related to the company’s products or services.
SOS signs off by saying, “Our elected officials should be chosen by voters on election day, not by corporations at the auction block.”
Just curious, do labor unions, like the Obama-campaign bankrolling SEIU count? Will the “Business Should Mind Its Own Business Act” also apply to compulsory dues squeezed out of union members and prevent those from being spent on political activities?
No, Congressman Grayson? Didn’t think so. So it’s free speech for Andy Stern and SEIU but not those “evil corporations.” Or maybe they negotiated a carve-out, like they did for the tax on “Cadillac health plans.”
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