Since a Corporation is a Person, It Can Run for Congress. Now, A Corporation is Saying It Will Run for Congress

New York Times

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:

Some of the spiel:

'Until now, corporations only influenced politics with high-paid lobbyists and backroom deals. But today, thanks to an enlightened supreme court, corporations now have all the rights the founding fathers meant for us. That's why Murray Hill Incorporated is taking democracy's next step-- running for Congress ...

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It's our democracy, We bought it, we paid for it and we're  going to keep it.

That's why Murray Hill Incorporated is taking democracy's next step - running for Congress...

Now that democracy is truly for sale, Murray Hill Incorporated is offering top dollar.

Vote Murray Hill Incorporated for Congress.

For the best democracy money can buy...