June 2010 Election Day: Corporations vs. Democracy
By Robert CruickshankThere is a very clear theme to today's election: will corporations take over California's politics, or will the voters stand up in defense of their democracy?
This theme appears again and again and again in races across the state, from the governor's race on down to the ballot propositions and state legislative races. Corporations and the CEOs that used to run them are convinced that their money will be enough to sway voters to give those corporations and CEOs much more power over our wallets and our elections. A massively underfunded, but broadly-based progressive coalition is fighting back, and in some of the key races, the outcome is far from clear.
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