Common Cause Looks to Prohibit Corporate Contributions to Campaigns in Montana

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Common Cause has submitted a ballot initiative in Montana that would prohibit corporate contributions to campaigns, clarify that corporations are not human beings with constitutional rights, and calls for a constitutional amendment nullifying Citizens United.

That is the Supreme Court decision that lifted a ban on corporate and union funding of campaign ads in federal elections as an infringement on speech.

Common Cause's move also follows another, more recent, Supreme Court decision staying enforcement of a Montana law banning corporate political spending.

Citizens United has been a boon to media outlets as so-called Super PACS get to spend unlimited amounts of that corporate and union money on advertising, much of it broadcast TV.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.