Unhappy with corporations in current election law

Some campaign literature was left on my doorstep that really raises a lot of questions. The literature was paid for by Republican Headquarters PAC, Leonard Falk, Treasurer, P.O. Box 10243, Kalispell MT 59904.

On the back was an ad for Lawrence Van Dyke, who is running as a non-partisan for the Montana Supreme Court justice. This raised a question of how nonpartisan Mr. Van Dyke could be if he was advertising on Republican literature.

It was pointed out that any group could put out literature supporting a candidate as long as there was no coordination with the candidate. To me, this surely puts Mr. Van Dyke in a lose-lose position — if he accepts the support there will be many who will believe he is not nonpartisan and a Republican, but if he publicly repudiates the Republican support, many will believe he is a Democrat and not nonpartisan.

This mess was created by the U.S. Supreme Court determining, in its infinite wisdom, that a corporation is a person and opening up unlimited funding for political campaigning.

This raises an interesting question — if a corporation (as a person) commits a crime so terrible that it warrants the death penalty, how do the authorities go about carrying out its execution? I can think of several corporations that should qualify. If a corporation (as a person) wishes to marry another corporation (as a person), how is the sex of the two persons determined?

These questions illustrate only one of the many ridiculous conditions which our politicians have created through our government. I could ramble on but it is time to quit.

Billy E. Butts lives in Columbia Falls.