The Corporate Spending Boogeyman Coming for Free Speech

The Corporate Spending Boogeyman Coming for Free Speech

Halloween is the season for haunted houses, campfire ghost stories, and manufactured frights. In politics, however, one of the scariest stories is told year-round. The perennial bogeyman? The all-powerful corporate behemoth allegedly buying elections and haunting our democracy. We are told that, unless the government takes radical measures, shadowy corporate titans will devour our civic life whole. In May, Hawaii enacted a sweeping law prohibit…