Free speech and the case of Saily Avelenda

[DukeTrout]

@gellfex

Last month, Saily Avelenda, a senior vice president and lawyer for Lakeland Bank, was called into her boss’s office and handed a fundraising letter that Frelinghuysen sent to a member of the bank’s board of directors. It asked for donations to help him fight organized opposition to the Republican agenda. At the bottom of the letter, scrawled in pen next to his signature, there was a note: “P.S. one of the ringleaders works for your bank!”

Freedom of Speech would only apply to the Saily Avelenda case if Congress passed a law that said, “Shut up, Saily! Frelinghuysen is our collective bestie!”