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Billionaire Soros weighs in on Democrats' Harris County DA race

This is the stuff that drives me nuts. Sure, Old Goat Soros has every right to drop his cash anywhere he wants, but what possible interest could he have in a DA race in Houston?

 

Not all paid speech has First Amendment cover, though. Soliciting a prostitute, for instance.

 

But the fact that it is paid is not the disqualifier, which is what Gee insanely argued for without thinking it through.

 

Interesting detail about this from the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html?_r=0

(forgive if posted before. haven't see it but long thread...)

 

Every time I see spoelstra, I think why is Jim Carrey coaching the Heat?

 

I'd vote for Spoelestra or even Ace Ventura over any of the clowns actually in the race now.

 

Rick stain
This conservative agrees with you. I'm sympathetic to the notion that too much money is a bad influence in politics, and would be open to listening to arguments for a constitutional amendment regulating it, though I doubt we could come up with anything that did more good than harm. The problem is that unlike much of the garbage that is ruled protected by the 1st amendment, political speech is exactly what was intended by the 1st amendment, and the government curtailing it is so blatantly unconstitutional that it just can't stand. The right answer is likely that free speech is a mixed bag, where to protect the speech we like we have to protect a lot of speech that is pretty bad.

 

Some here will find a way to criticize this endorsement:

 

If by criticize you mean laugh about it, sure. I got a chuckle. Jan Brewer is highly representative of the GOP base. Who in the country has been more in favor of rounding up brown people and shipping them back to Mexico and Central America than Jan Brewer? Maybe Sheriff Joe?

 

Amen to this.

Think about the stations in cities and states where you're in play every off year for Congress/Governor, every following year during the early season and then every presidential year. Three of every four years it's political cash.

PACs are the best. We need them to influence the low-information voter who, truthfully, would do society's best interest by not voting.

We consider airing all these political ads a public service.

 

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