"We have three elements today: unlimited contributions, corporate money, and secret money.
But even member stations receive, on average, only about 15% of their funds from federal, state and local governments, raising most of their money from listener contributions, corporate underwriting (advertisements, in other words) and foundation grants.
What is real is the threat of state and a nation so defined by corporate campaign contributions, corporate lobbying and corporate power that they can take away our right to organise unions, to speak in our workplaces and our communities, to petition – as the founders of the American experiment intended – for the redress of grievances.
equities rather than grab some of the record cash contributions corporate America is offering shareholders.
You cannot call a company a startup when they have proper clients, have a PAYE payroll going, pay national insurance contributions, corporate taxes, rent office premises that cost over £25,000 a year and operate like a proper small limited company.
The difference gets made up by individual contributions, corporate support, foundation grants and in small measure, government assistance.
Never has so much money in huge contributions, corporate funds and secret donations flooded our congressional elections and created so much opportunity for influence buying and selling.
He added, "Within the realm of contributions generally, corporate contributions are furthest from the core of political expression, since corporations' First Amendment speech and association interests are derived largely from those of their members".
Advocates for unlimited campaign contributions — especially corporate contributions — are hoping the Supreme Court will blow another huge hole in the campaign finance law.
Never mind the details: the Dahl family's contribution, the corporate sponsorship, the charity work.
