‘Ray Theon, where are you?’: Tucson bride seeks corporate master for domination

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Occupy Tucson activist and bride Mary DeCamp looks for the perfect corporate person to marry.

In tough times, even the most independent woman may find herself turning to traditional feminine tactics to secure her financial future– like marrying a sugar daddy.

And what better sugar daddy could a woman find than a corporate person? As reported earlier by this blogger, seven New York City brides married and pledged allegiance to seven corporate masters… er… grooms on the steps of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, January 19, the third anniversary of the Citizens United decision by the US Supreme Court.

Occupy Tucson activist and former mayoral candidate Mary DeCamp had hoped to find her corporate master– Ray Theon— at the federal building in downtown Tucson on Friday, but alas the lovely bride and her “father” (pictured here) were disappointed when the groom didn’t show. (Did “Ray” think he was not worthy of Mary when he saw her “father” holding the “Corporations are not people” sign?)

According to DeCamp, she searched around the federal building and the Bank of America building for “Ray” but couldn’t find him.

“Excuse me sir, you look very corporate, are you a corporation? I hear corporations are ‘persons’ now, and they have free speech,” DeCamp asked passersby. “I want to find one, hopefully Ray Theon, who will marry me and make me a rich bride. Yoo Hoo, Raaaay! Ray Theon! Come out, come out, wherever you are! I want to get married now.”

Approximately 24 activists from Move to Amend, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILF), Occupy All Streets, Code Pink, Raging Grannies, and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson were on hand to help DeCamp find a corporate person to own and dominate her for the rest of her life.

Occupy Tucson activist and bride Mary DeCamp

Occupy Tucson activist and bride Mary DeCamp

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This entry was posted on January 20, 2013 by Pamela Powers in campaign financing, Capitalism, Clean Elections, Congress, democracy, Elections, Free Speech, Occupy, organizing, Politics, reform, Tucson, Wall Street and tagged Citizens United, Corporate personhood, Mary DeCamp, Occupy Tucson.

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