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Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New York Times


New York Times, February 2, 2010
Posted: February 14th, 2010
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/corporation-say...

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 democracys 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 Marylands 8th Congressional District.

Note: To watch the companys first campaign ad, click on the link above.


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