Interview with Free Speech Attorney

Congress deciding who can speak and who can't!

Cleta Mitchell campaign finance attorney, free speech expert, and NRA board member discussed the DISCLOSE Act with Mark Levin on the Mark Levin Show, June 24, 1010.
Cleta gives a very good picture of the restrictions Ben attempted to place on free speech.

Listen here:

Link to article written by Cleta Mitchell in Washington Post, referenced in interview.

July 27, 2010, Senate voted DISCLOSE Act down.
Free speech opponents don't give up easily.
Sen. Schumer, NY, vows to bring it up again and again until it passes.

Irony: The DISCLOSE Act , allegedly written to require transparency, was written IN SECRET BEHIND CLOSED DOORS...

Just like Obamacare and virtually every piece of major legislation coming out of the Obama Administration.

Chandler/Obama Supporters Left Unscathed

"These requirements will be especially burdensome to small businesses and grass-roots organizations, which typically lack the resources for compliance. So the end effect of all of this "enhanced disclosure" will be to ensure that only large corporations, unions and advocacy groups can make political expenditures—the exact opposite of what the sponsors claim to desire." (Wall Street Journal)

Ben Chandler making sure his contributors get what they pay for!

Ben Chandler muzzles grassroots www.seebenspend.com

Chandler was a co-sponsor of the DISCLOSE Act.

June 25, 2010: The DISCLOSE Act is written specifically to limit political free speech of people with whom the Democratic Party disagrees.

Ben Chandler, as a former attorney general, knows full well the impact of his sponsorship and vote. Unions, his largest donor group, are exempt. Small businesses and grass roots organizations are hit hardest.

Violating the law by engaging in forbidden political speech
can land you in a federal prison!

This is an effort to affect the outcome of November 2010 election through intimidation of those who oppose Chandler, his party, his House Speaker, and his President.

This article in the Wall Street Journal, authored by 8 former Federal Election Commissioners, it explains the legislation very thoroughly.

DISCLOSE Act features (From the Article):

" In many 30-second ads, Disclose would require no fewer than six statements as to who is paying for the ad (the current law already requires one such statement). These disclaimers would take up as much as half of every ad."

"The Disclose Act also creates new disclosure requirements for nonprofit advocacy groups that speak out. These groups already have to disclose their sponsorship, but Disclose requires them to go further and provide the government with a membership list."