(1) single out business groups for outright bans on political speech: government contractors would be prohibited from engaging in political speech as well as companies in the United States (even those with 80 percent of American shareholders) that attract  minimal foreign investment—no similar restrictions were included for labor unions with foreign connections, unions receiving government money or public employee unions negotiating for salaries and benefits; (2) create a far more onerous and vague disclosure regime than the Supreme Court cited in Citizens United, deterring grassroots groups from speaking out in midterm campaigns; and (3) explicitly sow chaos and confusion among those attempting to comply with campaign finance law by mandating that the law go into effect without clarification by the FEC of numerous vague and undefined provisions as well as slowing down the judicial review process. 

So much like our own evil cousin, this attempt at disclosure is more the big bully majority bending the speech curve in their favor.   CCP elaborates here.

“Although corporations are forced to certify that foreign investors hold less than 20 percent of the company’s voting shares, unions are not required to certify that 20 percent of their members are not foreign. In rejecting such similar treatment, Democrats cited the rationale that unions lack the luxury to choose their members. The fact that corporations also do not choose their shareholders is meaningless when the true purpose of this act is to protect the Democratic majority as opposed to promote similar treatment across various types of organizations. Democrats offered weak excuses to justify their opposition to this and other measures, citing the lack of an explicit mention of labor unions in the Citizens United decision or a worry for small unions—just not small groups like the Mom and Pop store owners who wish to speak out about a candidate threatening to raise taxes that would cripple their business. Ultimately, Democrats included an outright ban on the political speech of countless companies while leaving similarly situated union allies untouched.”

Hodes and Shea-Porter wish this upon you so read the whole thing, it’s very enlightening. 

So our job is not done yet.  It would be a shame to have put in all this effort to kill partisan speech profiling right here in the Granite State only to have the lefts Godverment impose it on us from atop the sacred mount.   So get busy.  None of them are to be trusted, but Democrats in particular, are the perfect fertilizer for growing domestic constitutional threats. 

One final point.  CCP managed to translate the acronym DISCLOSE for us given its actual and obvious purpose.   “Democratic Incumbents Seeking to Contain Losses by Outlawing Speech in Elections.”

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