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To clarify this excellent comment: Corporations can donate to political campaigns and the organizations running them. What they can't do is donate directly to c
by twoodfin 10y ago
To clarify this excellent comment: Corporations can donate to political campaigns and the organizations running them. What they can't do is donate directly to candidates running for office.
- rayiner 10y agoCorporations cannot donate to campaigns either. What they can do is donate to Super PACs that make independent expenditures to support particular candidates.
- twoodfin 10y agoCampaigns for office are a subset of all political campaigns. Post-Citizens United, corporations can engage in or financially support any political campaigning they like in whatever form, as long as they don't make financial or in-kind contributions to the electoral campaigns of individual candidates. They don't need to form a PAC to do so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#Super_PACs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#Super_P...
- rayiner 10y agoFair enough. I didn't pick up on your use of "campaign" in the broader sense.