One Penny Sheet » Corporatism http://www.onepennysheet.com. News, Information, Opinion and Snark from a Progressive point of view Mon, 21 May 2012 02:59:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Corporate entity becomes ‘candidate’, kicks off bid for Congress http://www.onepennysheet.com./2010/03/corporate-entity-becomes-%e2%80%98candidate%e2%80%99-kicks-off-bid-for-congress/ http://www.onepennysheet.com./2010/03/corporate-entity-becomes-%e2%80%98candidate%e2%80%99-kicks-off-bid-for-congress/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:01:34 +0000 OPS_admin http://www.onepennysheet.com./?p=64474 When the Supreme Court decided the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, henceforth allowing corporate soft money to influence U.S. elections, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) cynically opined that it would lead to the election of the “congressman from Wal-Mart.”

Turns out, he may be right.

Meet , the first corporation to run for Congress in the United States.

“Until now, corporations only influenced politics with high-paid lobbyists and backroom deals,” the company’s YouTube account declares. “But today, thanks to an enlightened supreme court, corporations now have all the rights the founding fathers meant for us. That’s why Murray Hill Incorporated is taking democracy’s next step– running for Congress.”

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