Month: June 2010

Political corporate advertising, “unthinkably bad business?”

ADWEEK examines Citizens United and corporate interest in political advertising here. The most likely outcome in the coming election season is that we’ll hear more, probably much more, from groups like Citizens United, from whom we’ve been hearing all along. But we won’t be hearing, “Walmart, home of rollback savings on everyday low prices, endorses…”

Unions exploiting Citizens United first

According to Mother Jones, “Some of the first exploiters of the campaign finance free-for-all aren’t corporations, but labor unions.” In recent weeks, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the AFL-CIO have begun to use the new Citizens United rules to promote their preferred candidates in closely fought contests, such as […]