f interest in campaigns
December 29, 2012 at 6:00 pm in The Dickinson Press
Some citizens in Dunn County have been trying to initiate a grand jury to consider the conflict of interest involved in campaign contributions to Gov. Jack Dalrymple by energy companies regulated by the Industrial Commission. Continue Reading
Is this not one of the best discourses you have read lately? A common sense, no nonsense approach to the problems of campaign financing……But…..it will never work!
The Ist Amendment talks about free speech and recent Supreme Court rulings have considered corporations as individuals so they can contribute freely to their pocketbooks content. Now the hue and cry from the unions that that’s not fare! They want their cake and eat it too but not anyone one else! Oh the Liberal hypocrisy!
GOT BAKKEN? You’re still able to choose who to give your well earned money…to!
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The bribery statute is fairly simple, you cannot get, offer, or ask for, or promise something of value from someone in front of you when you are in a judges position.
Let’s say you are sued by someone and while your case is being heard, the other side gives a “donation” to the judge. Not hard to know why that would be.
So it also applies to the Industrial commission and the PSC and really any who sit as a judge in a case It’s really a minimum standard of fairness.
The thing is, with all Republicans in office, the law doesn’t seem to apply to any of them. So our state is governed by people who are committing felonies with impunity.
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Glad to see you’re recycling your previous posts about guilty until proven innocent! Must be hard to come up with variety in commenting!
GOT BAKKEN? Oooh, I can’t stand the Bakken!
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