Rep Boccieri Should Leave Americans Shaken, Enraged and Ready to Do Battle with the corpoations. Must See Vid..
Cong Boccieri of OH, a freshman and veteran of our military finds himself under attack by foreign entities in his own home in Ohio. Companies from Bahrain, China and who knows where else are cutting 100k plus checks just to take him out. How can democracy survive this? In this vid from Olbermann the congressman really shook me up- he said he fought for this country and never thought that while serving our govt right at home foreign companies would get to funnel in big money to take him and others out. You work your whole life to defend our country and now its legal for seedy companies from China and elsewhere pour in unlimited funds to end your service.
Joe Sestak- another fine American who served 31 years our country- faces an onslaught of big corporate and foreign cash to keep him out of the senate just in case he will push fair trade, good jobs for us and ending incentives for outsourcing.
No one knows where this cash is all coming from but the Chamber has admitted it is taking funds from sources it couldn’t before and Think Progress reports different foreign companies are pumping in millions to take out American govt members. Worse it appears their key targets are veterans who are members of congress. Sick.
If dems keep hitting the GOP on this issue of foreign money rolling into the heartland of our country to shape elections it will be highly effective. After watching this every dem should win simply to spite the Chamber of Commerce and Crossroads. Thanks to scotus we are more than ever a bannana republic. We must move to pass the Fair Elections Act and amend the constitution to end this madness.
Of special note- Sen. Feingold- long hated by corporate interests bc he accepts zero such cash and is a fierce advocate of public finance- find himself with millions of bucks from chamber of commerce and others to take him out. Citizens United has to be undone.
Vid of Rep Boccieri on MSNBC Tonight..