Federal Campaign Laws Require Donor's Occupation and Employer: Fair or Foul?
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The Constitution of the United States of America guarantees Americans the right to free speech in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The Founding Fathers wrote this to allow people to disagree with their government and to avoid recrimination or persecution for their opposition or support of any political beliefs.
Campaign finance laws now require Americans to list their occupation and employer when donating money to a political campaign. Laws also require publicly publishing the names of donors, the recipient and the amount. This can chill free speech because anyone can look up donations and use it to punish someone. For instance, an employer may secretly disqualify an applicant because he donated to a different political party.
The First Amendment of the Constitution:
From the Mitt Romney 2012 donation form:
"Federal law requires us to obtain and report your occupation and the name of your employer. If you are not employed, please enter None."
From the Barack Obama 2012 donation form:
"Federal law requires us to use our best efforts to collect and report the name, mailing address, occupation, and employer of individuals whose contributions exceed $200 in an election cycle."
Does requiring information about employment violate the First Amendment? Or is it a fair federal law?
Campaign finance laws now require Americans to list their occupation and employer when donating money to a political campaign. Laws also require publicly publishing the names of donors, the recipient and the amount. This can chill free speech because anyone can look up donations and use it to punish someone. For instance, an employer may secretly disqualify an applicant because he donated to a different political party.
The First Amendment of the Constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
From the Mitt Romney 2012 donation form:
"Federal law requires us to obtain and report your occupation and the name of your employer. If you are not employed, please enter None."
From the Barack Obama 2012 donation form:
"Federal law requires us to use our best efforts to collect and report the name, mailing address, occupation, and employer of individuals whose contributions exceed $200 in an election cycle."
Does requiring information about employment violate the First Amendment? Or is it a fair federal law?
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Top Opinion
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Zuggi 2012/08/17 00:39:30
Name, address, S.S. #, age, sex, employer, (if have one) and a history about the last 10 years where you lived just like getting a loan, this should be the donor’s requirements.
Yes, voting for in a congressional and presidential election is that important.
We need to know who our politicians belong to.
Anonymity when donating a large sum of money to political campaigns is a recipe for corruption and disaster.
The donors occupation & employment could be important, it goes through achieving a more transparent government.
Secondly illiberal/Democrat/Progressive candidates fail to raise the big dollars because they:
A) Support mostly splinter groups of society which they have banded together in an attempt to "create" a majority where none exists (nor should it), promising each group their own and delivering none of it.
B) Constantly bite the hand that feeds them by attacking the very businesses which are not contributing big bucks to their campaign. (But which would if the Liberals didn't plan, desire and attempt to tax said business' out of existence)
So now they want a call out list to try to embarrass big contributors, yet once again biting said hand.
And the funny thing is they never learn just what mistake it is they are making.
...much like SodaHead, where the majority of our users are either 1' 9" tall, make over $1 million a year, or are the identical twin of the same popular teenage scene model.
And when Pennsylvania completely knocks out Sunday before election voting when black churches car pool elderly members to vote, that's ME being a racist. Sure.
ID is free! But the raised embossed copy of your birth certificate that might be in the archives of the capital city of your state so you can get the free ID is isn't free. So it's functionally a poll tax and the GOP is just hoping you wont think it's worth the road trip and trouble.
I can get a gun license easier than I can the right to vote. You watch and see if the lines in Ohio aren't nine hours long in "certain" areas like in 2004.
Just stop it. Deep down you know you're wrong. What your party is doing in WRONG and the sad thing is you're making excuses I'm sure you don't even believe.
Care to be a little more clear on the Pennsylvania crap? It doesn't make sense. In Georgia voting day is on Tuesday, just like the rest of the country. Those busses that take the elderly still run, so are the people in Pennsylvania retarded and don't know how to transport the folks on Tuesday or what? I notice that Pennsylvania is taking people to get their FREE voter IDs, picking them up from senior homes and neighborhoods identified as not having registered citizens. Geez, transportation to get their FREE voter ID. Yep, that's really causing a problem, isn't it?
You do have gargantuan problems, but all you have to do in GA is go to the local health department to get that birth c...
Care to be a little more clear on the Pennsylvania crap? It doesn't make sense. In Georgia voting day is on Tuesday, just like the rest of the country. Those busses that take the elderly still run, so are the people in Pennsylvania retarded and don't know how to transport the folks on Tuesday or what? I notice that Pennsylvania is taking people to get their FREE voter IDs, picking them up from senior homes and neighborhoods identified as not having registered citizens. Geez, transportation to get their FREE voter ID. Yep, that's really causing a problem, isn't it?
You do have gargantuan problems, but all you have to do in GA is go to the local health department to get that birth certificate. There's no trip to Atlanta. And let's see, to get a copy for legal purposes a friend from Connecticut wrote to the Bureau of Statistics and got a copy of hers. Yeah, it cost $5, that is really straining the budget. But, I forget, if they demand an ID, then the dead can't vote anymore and THAT is surely the most important factor to the liberals.
I don't think you'll have to worry about 9 hour lines because I don't think as many will turn out this time. That's one reason Obeyme is in a panic, his base isn't galvinized. The youth don't give a crap anymore.
Deep down I know I'm right. I've lived it, seen it, and KNOW it. What the liberals are doing is throwing a black man out to the masses and they will turn around and say that HE tried to destroy America with his socialism and murdering seniors. He's the one who stripped Medicare of $716 billion to throw into Obamacare. He's the one who has put into law that seniors will be denied some diagnostics and services because of their age. You better wake up and smell the coffee. I don't have excuses because I make none. There is no reason for excuses, the liberals have them all anyway.
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