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"Our focus can now return to what this effort has always been about: Collecting signatures from Libby to Sidney and continuing to build a grassroots movement led by everyday Montanan," Mangan said in a statement.

"The Montana Plan is about giving people a real voice in their elections " not allowing big money to drown that voice out " and we're proud to keep that work moving forward."

Mangan, a former Montana Commissioner of Political Practices, said the idea leverages the state's ability to regulate corporations in state law and would be used to reign in corporate spending, while still allowing a path for political action committees to operate.

Artificial persons, as defined in Montana Law, include non-profits, trusts, partnerships, corporations, trade associations, or unincorporated associations and includes all such entities doing business in Montana " including those registered out of state.

The idea has made headlines nationally as a way to oppose Citizens United, an unpopular decision.

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"According to a national YouGov Survey from last fall, 79% of respondents, including 74% of Republicans and 84% of Democrats, agree that "large independent expenditures by wealthy donors and corporations in elections give rise to corruption, or the appearance of corruption."

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"On Wednesday, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, who served under President Bill Clinton, released videos across social media drawing attention to the issue, saying "a very unlikely state is leading the way first-of-its kind plan," which would "effectively neuter Citizens United."

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In #57, censored posts this about the 2024 election:

"Kamala is for they/them" was one of Trump's most effective 30-second attack ads, shifting the race 2.7 percentage points in favor of Trump after viewers watched it
en.wikipedia.org
Yep.

I've said this before and bears repeating:

Throughout the month of October, 2024, the Trump campaign (and associated entities) spent $300,000,000.00 on ads in all 7 swing states during televised NFL and NCAA football games. The topic of all of those ads? Then-CA Attorney General Kamala Harris' 2019 response to a question about a Trump administration dictate on gender-affirming (read: trans) care for federal inmates.

And the amount of money the Harris campaign spent countering those ads in the swing states during NFL and NCAA football games? You know, to point out the truth that she was simply responding to a question about a Trump administration dictate on gender-affirming for federal inmates? To counter the deceptive, the lying-by-omission ads run by Trump & company?

Zero dollars

The efficacy of this strategy was born out election night, 2024, when Steve Kornacki was calling individual counties (starting with Pennsylvania) and highlighting that the Harris/Walz ticket was falling short of votes as opposed to the votes in the 2020 election for the Biden/Harris ticket. His reporting was, in effect, a death by 1,000 cuts for Harris/Walz.

Trump & company knew that all it would take would be the suppression of Biden votes in 2024 by just a point or two for Trump to carry those counties, all 7 swing states and, ultimately, the election. They judged, correctly, that men - men of color and white - would be turned off enough by the "pro-trans" Harris that they voted for Trump, or didn't vote at all.

Either way, mission accomplished.

I wished I wouldn't have came out on the Retort. This topic would not have been so frequently posted.
#54 | Posted by LauraMohr

Maybe? But it seems to have helped swing an entire state to Trump.

"Kamala is for they/them" was one of Trump's most effective 30-second attack ads, shifting the race 2.7 percentage points in favor of Trump after viewers watched it
en.wikipedia.org
So I wouldn't say it's all about you. It's a polarizing issue, and the fact that some trans-supporters are intentionally oblivious to the rational concerns of others (e.g., sewing a female's head onto a male's body doesn't mean that the female head should now be free to compete in female sports) is pretty off-putting.

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