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Taking the recent Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance to its logical extreme, a corporation–Murray Hill, Inc.,–has filed as a Republican candidate for Congress in Maryland’s 8th District. This is political theatre and satire at its best, and we should all thank the smart-aleck who did it.<\/p>\n

Read it here, on The Raw Story<\/a>, and watch the hilarious video on YouTube.<\/p>\n