Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress

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Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress

Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what it believes to be "democracy's next step": It is running for Congress.

With more than a twinge of irony, Murray Hill Incorporated, a liberal public relations firm, recently announced that it planned to run in the Republican primary in Maryland's 8th Congressional District.

Here is the company's first "campaign" ad:

[youtube:n7lvc9mr]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHRKkXtxDRA[/youtube]n7lvc9mr]


http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/ ... -congress/



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