Corporate Political Contributors

This letter is in response to Len Schoettker’s letter, “Get the Facts Jan. 21,” published on Dec. 2^nd.

I do not need to reach back 160 years to find a great American President who finds fault with the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision allowing unlimited political donations by corporations.

"The Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign companies -- to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, and worse, by foreign entities." Barak Obama; from his 2010 State of the Union Address

President Obama’s alarm at this decision was specific to the Supreme Court ruling that Mr. Schoettker proposes to remedy with a Constitutional Amendment. President Obama thinks that the Court erred as does Sonia Sotomayor and three other Justices. This was a 5/4 decision and there are less unwieldy ways to cause this decision to be reversed than by Amending the Constitution. I do agree that it does need to be reversed.

People who want a court that challenges the power of great wealth in shaping our laws should vote for Democrats and reelect President Obama. President Obama and Democrats in the United States Senate saved the Supreme Court from being a Republican rubber stamp for the wealthiest interests in the country.

Vote Democratic and you will create legislative and executive branches of government that will promote a more thoughtful and scholarly judiciary that does not kowtow only to wealth and money. The National Republican Party has become singularly focused on protecting the interests of the wealthiest 1% of Americans.

David Kerr