{"id":22574,"date":"2017-03-24T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=22574"},"modified":"2017-04-12T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:11:41","slug":"corporate-money-intersect-politics-ben-cohen-ben-jerrys-ice-cream-presents-stetson-law-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2017\/03\/24\/corporate-money-intersect-politics-ben-cohen-ben-jerrys-ice-cream-presents-stetson-law-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Does corporate money intersect with politics? Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry\u2019s Ice Cream presents at Stetson Law Review Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ben Cohen spoke at Stetson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stetson University College of Law hosted\u00a0a daylong Stetson Law Review Symposium, \u201cCan Corporations Be Good Citizens? How Corporate Law, Litigation, Lobbying and Money in Politics Intersect,”\u00a0on March 24 in Gulfport, Florida.<\/p>\n

The keynote was\u00a0presented by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry\u2019s Ice Cream.\u00a0Cohen, who founded the non-profit Stamp Stampede<\/a> to build a movement to get big money out of politics, made a lively\u00a0presentation\u00a0on the humble beginnings of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and discussed the impact of corporate money in politics.<\/p>\n

“There’s going to be a ballot initiative in 2018, in favor of an amendment to the constitution to make it so that corporations cannot contribute millions and millions of dollars to politicians in a system which is essentially legalized bribery,” said Cohen.
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