Corporations can participate legally in a wide cariety of political activities. Federal law governs only political activities involving candidates for president, vice president, and congress.
For example,a corporation may encourage its employees and stockholder to register and vote, but it may not recommend to employees how they shoild vote.
Soft money payments made directly to a political party were exempt from the federal limits on the size of indvidual contributions because ostensibly the money was not going into the campaign of a specific candidate.
The greater the importance of government to a firm's operations, the greater the likely scope and magnitude of its involvement in political acticity
The largest donations to the state Democratic Party come from labor unions and trial lawyers. The major Republican contributions are real estate and securities firms and health professionals.
source: Business and Government in the Global Marketplace (7 edition Murray L. Weidenbaum)
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