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 “democracy’s 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 Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. ~ By CATHERINE RAMPELL
Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress
No, This is not an Onion headline.
We found it on the New York Times Online Business section.
Please let this be an amazing hoax.
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 “democracy’s 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 Maryland’s 8th Congressional District.
~ By CATHERINE RAMPELL
Here is the company’s first “campaign” ad:
Murry Hill website
Murry Hill Annoucement to run in the Republican primary in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District