Here's what we're going to do.

We're going to say that if you want to put out an ad or spend money, that's about an

issue.

That's not about a panic.

Then you should be allowed to do that because that's just talking to the public, engaging

in free speech rights.

So, the spring court issued that decision and that put caps on what you could attribute

to a candidate or a political party.

But left open the possibility that issue ads really couldn't be kept in terms of how much

money you could expect.

That was Ben Foyer, chairman of the California Appellate Law Group.

Being about a Supreme Court case that's mostly been overshadowed by citizens united, but

really lead the groundwork for the expansion of corporate personhood.

Buckley, Vila Leo, came out in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

In the course of investigating Nixon in the early 1970s, prosecutors had discovered that

various company executives and trade groups had been in the habit of essentially paying

Nixon to grease the wheels of government.

Some of the documents that came out of Watergate turned up evidence that Nixon and his team

had taken huge amounts of money in brief cases as safety deposits, how are they used

kept a lot of safety deposits, $200,000, that Nixon's staffers had access to.

Brief cases full of cash.

Yeah.

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