Originally Posted by
notEnuf
Regardless of your politics, this decision distances representatives from their constituents as money for re-election trumps the input of individuals. More money in politics raises the threshold for the ear of the representative. Eventually city council members will be beholden to the national party and its PAC collective.
People making a movie critical of a politician isn't "money in politics" any more than the Oscars or The View or the vast majority of major network news/papers or most college campuses are 24/7/365. Should we censor all that during "election season"? And if so, for what? To shelter the impressionable masses so as to protect their predetermined political viewpoints, few if any of which are actually changed by media content in the first place?
C.U. was absolutely the right decision because its impossible to enforce a contrary policy without horrifying powers of governmental enforced speech controls.