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Re: 4 Nov 2008 - "Fire the incumbents day"
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Originally Posted by daddio
They can say anything they want, they can even put bif old signs in their yards. The candidates would not be allowed to take their money is all.
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That would be unconstitutional. Giving money to a candidate is free speech, and has been confirmed as such by the supreme court.
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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
-Thomas Jefferson
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