Wolfgang wrote:

"Bob Weinberger" wrote

By your reasoning above, if I was your employer and found out that you
were giving money to a candidate that I do not support or worse detest, I
should deny you any raises or even fire you.
In "at will" states I would have that option (though I'd probably have to
give another reason). It may be legal, but is it "right"?

Hm.....so, if you find out that one of your local shopkeepers contributes
regularly to the White Aryan Resistance, do you make a point of patronizing
his or her establishment in order to protect all of our rights?

So let's list everyone's contributions to all organizations on the
internet. Wouldn't want to be doing business with no closet
environmentalists, or alternatively, no NRA gun nuts neither.

Maybe their bank and credit card statements, their tax returns. Weed
out them serial divorcees and them improvident heathens living beyond
their means.

Let's put their library and video rental records on there, as well.
That's how you unmask your real pervert, you know.

How else to satisfy our right to find out just what these *******s all
around us might REALLY be up to?

On the other hand, we *could* perhaps restrict access to this
information to law enforcement agencies actually charged with looking
into campaign finance and tax law compliance, or into people and
organizations reasonably suspected of criminal actives (like WAR).

'Course, then the rest of us would have to be content with minding
our own business.

JR