Citizens United Archives

2022 Senatorial Campaign – Candidate Andy Martin Is at It Again – Sticking Foot into Mouth

July 6, 2022 Skip

Perennial candidate Andy Martin is forever trying to get himself elected. He claims that he is the most experienced candidate in any race that he’s run in since I’ve been in NH. I dryly note that his “experience” is in losing as he’s never come close to winning a single election. As far back as … Read more

Freedom of Speech, Just watch what you say…

July 28, 2020 Op-Ed

Freedom of Speech, Just watch what you say, a line from the Gangster Rapper, ICE-T. I am reminded of this lyric (from my youth) whenever I strike a nerve. Who’s nerve did I hit? Well, that would be Philip Abirached of the Windham, NH Republican Committee.

The Citizens United decision, the First Amendment, and a short treatise on corporations

May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 Norm Silber

One of the candidates in the Republican primary for US Senate has recently surprised most liberty-loving citizens of New Hampshire by supposedly supporting an amendment to the First Amendment of the US Constitution to overturn the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the well-known Citizens United case!

Republican Senate Candidate from NH Wants a Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United

May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Steve MacDonald

General Don Bolduc is a Republican running for the US Senate in New Hampshire. He seems like a solid guy who has some excellent ideas. I’m not entirely sure if they are his ideas, but there are people I like and trust that have endorsed him. But I can’t. One of his “ideas” is a dealbreaker.

Clinton FanBoy Wishes Her Hulu Documentary was Available in 2016 – Forgets About Overturning Citizens United

May 12, 2020March 10, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Most Democrats have no idea what it means when they yell out ‘Citizens United.’ It’s the generic in-party term for the corporate theft of elections and big money in politics. No, not by biased multi-billion-dollar corporate left-wing media silly, everyone else.

Mr. Rubens – Will Your Amendment to Get Money out of Politics Keep the Media from Spending Billions to Promote Democrats?

January 25, 2020January 25, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Jim Rubens has a very long email; almost no one will read. It’s just too long. But the title is “The Conservative Role in Passing an Anti-Corruption Amendment.” So, as a favor to you, I’ll suffer through it, if only to remind you why the title is misleading and the premise is wrong.

End Citizens United PAC Spends BIG to get ‘Big Money’ Out of Politics

August 27, 2019
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A political action committee known as End Citizens United has spent a lot of big money in order to get big money out of our elections. Typical hypocrisy from first-amendment hating democrats. In 2016 they reportedly spent $2.1 million to defeat Sen. Ayotte, and spent $32 million in the total 2018 election cycle. Citizens United … Read more

Granny D and the Evil “Dark Money” in Politics

August 3, 2019 Op-Ed

The ‘Granny D’ walk to get money out of politics in, you guessed it, Peterborough, will happen this Sunday. According to the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript,

Senate Democrats Announce Plan to Amend the First Amendment ‘cuz Too Much Free Speech

August 1, 2019 Steve MacDonald

When the Supreme Court won’t back your unconstitutional Statist speech suppression antics what is a political party to do? Amend the First Amendment. That’s the plan according to US Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Tom Udall (D- NM).

RightOnline 2012 – I’m gonna have to get the guys to report on this: “Occupy Unmasked”

September 26, 2018June 17, 2012 Skip

Certainly, I have done enough posting about the Occupy Wall Street movement, especially here in NH. Once again, I have another reason to be a bit jealous of the Groksters who went as they had the chance to preview this new movie by Citizens United (yes, THAT Citizens United) covering the OWS as a whole. … Read more