Corporate Campaign Spending

In the response to the recent Supreme Court ruling on campaign spending, a group of companies have sent letters to Congress asking to be put on a "do-not call list". They don't want congressmen asking for donations or providing fundraisers. They say "members of congress already spend too much time raising money from large contributors...". The letters were signed by 40 executives of companies like Playboy Enterprises, Ben and Jerrys, Seagram's, Hasbro (toys), Delta Air Lines, Men's Wearhouse, Quaker Chemical Corp, Brita Products, San Diego National Bank, Met Life and Crate & Barrell.

I would think if companies didn't have to spend money on political campaigns they would have more money to pay their employees or do research or whatever. But now, thanks to this radical right wing supreme court, our congressmen will be more in debt to the big givers than usual.

(Source: of the companies on do not call list. "CEO's ask to be added to Congress' do-not call list" by the AP. In The Virginian Pilot on 1/23/10)