Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Foreign Donations Missing Anonymous Part
For all the complaints about foreign donations going to the Chamber of Commerce which is funding political ads, I'm surprised more isn't made of the anonymous part. Anonymous donations were actually brought up in the Citizens United decision and 8 out of 9 justices thought it was constitutional to require donators be named (that is banning anonymous donations). Thomas was the only one supporting anonymous donations (on a free speech grounds, since it would clearly stifle those speakers that wanted to remain anonymous or felt threatened). Now it's a bit different since it's not donations directly to candidates but to groups that directly produce "political ads", but I'm still surprised I haven't heard mention of it at all.
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