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Stopping the Disclose Bill!

Mark Twain famously said, "No man's life, liberty or property is safe when Congress is in session."  Congress is in session and once again, our liberty is at risk.  This time, it is a bill called the DISCLOSE bill.


The DISCLOSE bill is the liberal's response to the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case.   This bill would limit spending on political issues by corporations but not by Unions.   It exempts large political groups from it's burdensome requirements yet buries small groups (like your average Tea Party group) with regulations that could put the groups or even individuals in legal jeopardy.    The DISCLOSE bill has exemptions for media corporations (I.E. the main stream media) political speech, but not for the new media and bloggers.


This bill is another obscene attack by the left on the First Amendment.  It is a bill designed to shut down political speech by mostly conservative groups, while allowing mostly liberal groups to continue on.  This bill must be stopped.


Once again, we must take time to call our Senators and tell them to stop this attack on the First Amendment.  Harry Reid is going to try and end debate on this bill either late today or tomorrow in what is called a cloture vote.  We only need 41 votes to defeat Reid and this bill.  Call your Senator today and tell them to vote against this bill every time it comes up, including voting against cloture.  


In addition to calling your Senators, here are a few others to call that might help stop this bill:


  • Senator Olympia Snowe   (202) 224 5344
  • Senator Susan Collins (202) 224 2523
  • Senator Blanche Lincoln (202) 224 4843
  • Senator Lindsey Graham (202) 224 5972
If all 41 Republicans vote against this bill, it will die.  Chances of death improve if one or more Democrats can be persuaded to vote against it (which is why Blanche Lincoln's name is in that list of people to call).  

Two years ago, would we have believed it would be necessary to call our elected officials every week, just to save our basic constitutional rights?  This is why elections are important and this is why the elections this fall are so important.  But they are still over 90 days away.  Today, we must call again so that the Senate does not repeal the 1st Amendment!

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Permalink Reply by CM on July 26, 2010 at 8:07am
I sure do get tired of battling our government- but...that's what they are counting on...us giving up!
Permalink Reply by John Ciribassi on July 26, 2010 at 8:26am
Just sent emails to Durbin, Burris, Snowe, Collins, Graham, and Lincoln. Its good to be a part of this movement. Thank you all for keeping us informed so that we can act.
Permalink Reply by Danny Shaw on July 26, 2010 at 9:47am
If the restrictions were universally applied then the bill might be less objectionable, but that is not the case.
Essentially this bill seems to allow certain groups to contribute without restiction while limiting contributions from other, targeted groups. That's not fair, that's not demogracy. That limits our voice - your voice too.
Permalink Reply by Kevin Zelhart on July 26, 2010 at 4:24pm
Not sure what the people sending expected, but I can and do use the search engines available to find such info. Not everything is handed to me in the form I expect it (matter of fact, it seldom is) Even when it is, I still check on the sources; have been burned too many times in the past
Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on July 26, 2010 at 4:53pm
It would be nice if all information on everything would be supplied, Bella!
I'd like one email that told me everything I wanted to know about everything!
Put it in one paragraph, please. Two would be O.K....
In reality, one has to dig a bit! Or join LuvMyBarack.Com, which supplies all you need to know!
The choice is yours! Study, or eat the Pablum supplied.
Have a nice day..
Permalink Reply by Truly Patriotic Person on July 26, 2010 at 1:43pm
I saw Jame's comment earlier, Jerry! You commented to him and then he's removed his information.
Left you talking to a wall, sort of.
He said he was a Liberal and stuff. Thought this was a good bill, to remove your right to speak here..
Why is he here? Doesn't he have someplace else to talk?
I just don't understand.Doesn't Obama, or somebody, have a place for him to speak?
I thought this was a place for people to speak about smaller government, the constitution, and so on.
Why would anybody wish to take away our right to learn?
Permalink Reply by Robert Tyler on July 26, 2010 at 8:57am
My feelings are split on this bill, because on one hand I feel like Chondra Moore and that the idiots in DC think they have worn us down and will slip a bill by us. But on the other hand, I feel that we need to take the for-profit corporate money out of Washington DC.
Our Government is no longer for the people, and by the people, no it is now by the corporation, for the corporation and of the corporations. Large Corporations brought this country to it's knees in the last several years with it's greed and deceitfulness and the government went along with it. So if the idiots in DC are going to write a law about who can and cannot play in the political game, they should try to make the rules fair for everyone, but wait, why would they do that. The corporations are paying for most of these bills anyway. One point Bella made that does bother me is , that whomever in the Tea Party sends out these email blasts never places a bill number or any real details in their emotion filled emails. Send me the Facts, as I too am not a Sheeple.
Permalink Reply by Jim Borden on July 26, 2010 at 9:17am
S.3295 is the bill we are talking about. Even the ACLU is against this bill according to Townhall.com. Here's an article you can read that describes what this bill is about (I.e., I don't think it benefits any American- but that's up to you). http://townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2010/06/29/in_washing...
Permalink Reply by Dennis Sciole on July 26, 2010 at 9:06am
Unfortunatley my Senator is Bill Nelson of Florida and I come to believe that he became deaf when Czar Obama came to office. The other is Senator Lemieux and there is no doubt that he will vote against this unconstitutional bill. My Representative is a confused former real estate agent that got elected during the "sweep out the Replicans" last year. I don't know if she can read so my chances of influencing a vote are nil. I would like to thank you for getting people to call or write to the Senate but I must remind you that these are the same degenerates that didn't listen during town hall meetings last year and they haven't recharged their hearing aids as far as I can tell.
Permalink Reply by Judson Phillips on July 26, 2010 at 9:50am
Apologies to all who were not familiar with this bill. We should have included the bill number so that everyone could look it up, who was not familiar with it. This has been a issue of major concern to a lot of people in the new media and I think we just assumed that everyone was familiar with it.
Permalink Reply by Steph on July 26, 2010 at 10:21am
S 3295 I the bill. The history is even more interesting.
This didn't just start with the Supreme Court case. It started with Farenheit 911. There was an fec complaint about the release time of that film being designed to affect the election. The fec held that was free speech. So in the 2008 election, the same group that brought the complaint to the fec made a movie called "illary the Movie" or some such. In this case the FEC ruled that it could not be shown, released, given away, nothing. That is the case that went to the Supremes. That is the case where Elena Kagan, acting as Solictor General, totally blew it when she admitted to the Court that under the law the government "could" ban books and pamphlets. Oh, "but they've never done that".

This bill would prevent things like swift-boating, when a small group bands together to make their voices heard. Like us.
They have restricted who can advertise within a certain number of days to the election. You have to have a membershiop of 500,000, have been in existence for ten years or more. Oh, by the way there are "carve outs" for certain preferred groups.

It does nothing about lobbying. It's running under the cloak of stopping "big Business" you know, because they're evil. What it really does is stop us.

I think that there is an assumption from the writer of these emails that we are all paying attention now. And have some knowledge. I guess from some of these responses, that cannot be assumed.
Permalink Reply by john676 on July 26, 2010 at 10:23am
I called the four listed and only Lincoln said they were supporting the bill and Collins said she would probably support the bill and I ask he to vote NO!! Who knows what she will do.. I think I know. I told her staff that she has enough trouble in her home State and should vote NO!

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