Does It Bother Anyone...?
....that millions and millions of dollars are being contributed to the super PAC's that are doing most of the advertising in this presidential campaign, are coming from foreign countries?
I'm sure both candidates are getting foreign money--they can because of the Supreme Court's Citizen United ruling. But I saw a report this morning on Politico.com that the Romney super PAC has gotten huge contributions--something more than $10 million--from interests in Macau. Macau is one of the two administrative regions of the People's Republic of China.
The super PAC's have no requirement to report their sources of contributions. In this case, the donor is thought to be Sheldon Adelson, owner of the parent company of Venetian Macao Casino, a huge casino being developed in China.
I guess our Supreme Court believes that the rights of free speech applies to anyone or any organization, private or sovereign, who chooses to "speak" in the United States. So foreign interests will likely have an awful lot of influence on who is elected as POTUS in November. Moreso than any individual or group of American voters. I can't imagine that the framers of the Constitution had this in mind.
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