A ray of light in our midterm GOP Sea-of-Red— the Republican overseers (the Plutocrats and their corporations) 'Butt' a political wall in their quest to plunder America's Democracy.
The Plutocrats who run the environmentally-demented, marauding, and dangerous Chevron Oil Corporation thought they could rule with Citizens United's free spending limits by using their unlimited corporate 'money' coffers to outlandishly buy an election. However, in this case the 'Real' people stood up and said, 'No, you can't'! It's another David and Goliath story wherein this version David is named Tom Butt. Tom said, 'Let the People be Heard'.
Chevron announced that they were people too. And as a not-so-witty Republican Twit (Mitt) once said 'Corporations are People, My Friend' and have a God given, excuse 'legal' right, as affirmed by the infamous '5' supremes ('holier than thou' god fearing Christian jurists — Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, Alito and Roberts) to buy elections. While Chevron may be legally correct in their protestations, they are not 'Real' people, no matter how much the infamous '5' supremes try to affirm that they are. In legal parlance it's called 'Corporate Personhood,' as affirmed in multiple rulings by the infamous '5' jurists.
10 Supreme Court Rulings — Before Hobby Lobby —That Turned Corporations into People
http://www.motherjones.com/...
Not only are Corporations 'People,' as defined by 'Our' infamous '5', but also, of which you may be unaware, corporations now have more rights than 'Real' people.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
After multiple fires and explosions at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California, caused untold damage to the city and the people living there, the mayor and the city council started to push-back, telling Chevron to clean-up its act. And as good corporate citizens, in the truest tradition of wealth and power, Chevron decided that they would simply buy themselves a new mayor and a new city council in Richmond — this, of course, in wealthy plutocratic circles is known as good Republican corporate governance.
Out of a midterm GOP sea of red came a surprise victory for democracy. Tom Butt was elected Richmond Mayor after a multimillion-dollar campaign by Chevron Corporation could 'not' defeat the valiant Butt, who had only $58,000; nor could Chevron elect a slate of other candidates the giant oil company had supported with millions of marauding dollars to buy another democratic election. Corporate electioneering can be stopped if the 'Real' people, 'Citizens,' will only stand 'United' against them. We can win! We can prevail! But only by standing together as one!
Progressives capture City Hall and Council, fending off Chevron money
http://richmondconfidential.org/...
A Rachel Maddow video worth watching —all about BUTT
Big-money Chevron tries to muscle a local government by using their enormous power & wealth to buy an election
