First Corporation Runs for Congress

In response to the recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down limits on corporate political spending, the first "corporate person" has launched a satirical campaign for Congress in Maryland.

Murray Hill Inc. is filing to run in the Republican primary in the eighth congressional district in Montgomery County, Md. A news release from the campaign applauds last month's Supreme Court ruling, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, for upholding its rights as a "corporate person."

"The strength of America,” Murray Hill Inc. said, “is in the boardrooms, country clubs and Lear jets of America’s great corporations. We’re saying to Wal-Mart, AIG and Pfizer, if not you, who? If not now, when?”

“It’s our democracy. We bought it, we paid for it, and we’re going to keep it," says the release.