Friday, October 29, 2010

McDonald’s Telling Employees How to Vote in Ohio

I remember when we were debating campaign finance laws around the turn of the millennium and the standard right-of-center view was that these were unfair restrictions on free speech and disclosure alone would be good enough. Then came Citizens United and the DISCLOSE Act and suddenly disclosure itself was an unbearable curtailment of free speech. Now I’m reading about this story where a McDonald’s in Ohio is sending notes in its employees’ paychecks telling them who to vote for:

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