Ask Kratovil to Oppose H.R. 5175,
the "DISCLOSE" Act,
that silents grassroots groups
Rush Limbaugh headlined this act today, three days after you may have read this on SBY news!
The Dems designed this bill to gut Tea Party groups and any grassroots organizations, but protect Obama's favored LABOR UNION groups.
Hence, any group with a million plus members, ten years or older and with membership in 50 states is unaffected by new regulations.
Protect your VOICE and opportunity to be heard.
Speak out and oppose this bill which the Dems know is unconstitutional and will be overturned , BUT not before elections.
Ask Kratovil to oppose H.R. 5175!
H.R 5175, the "DISCLOSE Act" is a bill designed to protect 2010 incumbents.
Fearful of what Election Day in November will bring them, liberals in Congress are pushing H.R. 5175, the "DISCLOSE Act," a bill disguised as campaign finance reform, but which is really designed to protect incumbents during the current election year.
Tell Representative Frank Kratovil to OPPOSE H.R. 5175
Instead of addressing the problems often found in the financing of campaigns, H.R. 5175 adds to the already onerous burdens placed on law-abiding organizations by exposing their donors in places like TV, radio and newspaper ads. The bill exposes the hypocrisy of its supporters by giving special treatment to favored special interests, even though the bill is designed to crack down on the power of many other special interests!
These tactics are used to intimidate donors. They were used in the 1960s during the Civil Rights struggles, and more recently have been employed against Christians in states like Massachusetts, California and Maine for merely voicing their beliefs on marriage being between one man and one woman.
Now the Democrats want to intimidate you into silence as well!
The goal behind this bill, written by the head of the Democratic Congressional Committee and a liberal Republican who fears a primary challenge, is to influence this election in particular. Liberals are well aware that the DISCLOSE Act is unconstitutional. They know that the courts may eventually overturn the law, but not before November 2nd, 2010 -- election day. By then, the damage to free speech will have already been done.
Please contact Congressman Kratovil today and tell him to oppose H.R. 5175, the DISCLOSE Act.
http://kratovil.house.gov/
DC. office ( 202) 225-5311
Salisbury (410) 334-3072
Centerville (443) 262-9136
try "silences" grassroots groups
ReplyDeleteThink of this at the local level. Would you want all the donations made by the landlords to be kept secret so you didn't know which candidate was being funded by them? Secrecy is not a good thing.
ReplyDeleteSo information on who funds these organizations "silences" the group?
ReplyDeleteI just wonder how many of you will actually read the text of the bill before deciding whether it is good or bad, and how many of you will scream "socialist takeover" because Limbaugh says so.
I see the post conveniently leaves out the the NRA is also exempt.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I think the biggest blow to free speech happened when it was deemed that corporations are people and could use their money as speech.
ReplyDeleteAll this bill is trying to do is let us know what companies are buying what votes, as it will have to be disclosed how they spend their money.
Too bad the unions are EXEMPT!
ReplyDeleteThis bill was written to specifically exempt unions...
* million plus membership
* ten years or older
* members in 50 states
...of course the Dems know it is unconstitutional and WILL be overturned, BUT after Nov election.