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Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.

I don't represent corporations.

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

What I try to do is tell my constituents that this is what I believe and this is why I made that vote. And I think that that makes more sense to people generally than trying to triangulate some political position.

The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.

What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.

Corporations are economic entities or structures, and yet they're allowed to fund political candidates, and when those candidates are elected, guess who gets in the door first? It's corporations.

It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.

The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.