Mitch McConnell and corporate America’s First Amendment rights

Money talks

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I thought the Huffington Post offered the most succinct analysis of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s call to corporations to stay out of politics. “ Shut up and donate,” said HuffPo’s headline. The strap provided all the other context anyone might need: “Congress’ biggest defender of corporate political speech rights changes his tune.”

Quite. Best to tell it like it is. This is not a complicated story, after all.

Now that Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola are censorious about GeorgiaRepublicans ‘ new law that would restrict some elements of voting, Mr McConnell and his fellow Republicans are leery of corporate free speech.

In Texas, American Airlines and Dell said they opposed two major bills to restrict voting that are being considered by the legislature. On April 2, more than 200 companies, including Dow, Twitter, HP and Paypal released a joint statement opposing “hundreds of bills threatening to make voting more difficult in dozens of states na…