U.S.Chamber of Commerce Spending Foreign Funds to Attack Democrats…

The world is changing right in front of us... and more material is turning up all the time.

This is the first couple of paragraphs by Paul Johnson in a special article in OpEdNews. It is a LONG article and bears reading.

I’ve been watching a POV documentary on Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. It dawns on me that the ability of major corporations to use secret funds in campaigns… even foreign funds… for US Congresspeople is as evil as the lies in the 60s and 70s that were told to the American People about the Viet Nam War.

If you are not concerned with what the US Chamber and Large Corporations can do to our freedom…especially our freedom to vote for candidates in a fair and honest way… then you are sleeping through a disaster.

Please read it all.
-Bill

clipped from www.opednews.com For OpEdNews: paul johnson – Writer Exclusive: Foreign-Funded “U.S.’ Chamber Of Commerce Running Partisan Attack Ads The largest attack campaign against Democrats this fall is being waged by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a trade association organized as a 501(c)(6) that can raise and spend unlimited funds without ever disclosing any of its donors. The Chamber has promised to spend an unprecedented $75 million to defeat candidates like Jack Conway, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Jerry Brown, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), and Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA). As of Sept. 15th, the Chamber had aired more than 8,000 ads on behalf of GOP Senate candidates alone, according to a study from the Wesleyan Media Project. The Chamber’s spending has dwarfed every other issue group and most political party candidate committee spending. A ThinkProgress investigation has found that the Chamber funds its political attack campaign out of its general account, which solicits foreign funding.

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