Democracy Is For People–TELL YOUR CONGRESSMEN THAT THIS IS NOT AN ALL FOOLS DAY JOKE
CONGRESSMEN and Senators think Public citizen and I are joking. We are not.–KAS
Democracy Is For People
Tell Congress to Stand Up to Corporate InfluenceLast year, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its perverse ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Because of that decision, corporations now have the “right” to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Powerful multinational corporations already exerted disproportionate influence in Washington. Citizens United makes this problem much, much worse.
Congress must act to stop corporate interests from using their immense financial resources to shut the public out of its own government. Here’s what Congress can do now:
1.) Support and pass the public financing of elections by becoming a co-sponsor of the Fair Elections Now Act. Public financing is the single most effective legislative remedy to the current corrosive system of campaign finance. The Fair Elections Now Act offers qualified congressional candidates a viable alternative that encourages small donations and provides competitive grants.
2.) Support shareholder protection to stop activist CEOs from using shareholder money to further their own political agendas. Corporate political expenditures, including expenditures for campaign ads, electioneering communications, issue advocacy and ballot measure campaigns at the state and federal levels should require majority approval of all shareholders.
3.) Support disclosure of election spending. The American public should know who is trying to influence their votes. New laws are also needed to prevent foreign money from flowing into U.S. elections and to stop political spending by corporations who receive government money.
The ultimate solution to this problem is a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v FEC. Corporations are not people, they do not vote, and they should not be able to influence election outcomes
http://www.citizen.org/congress-v-corporate-influence
Democracy Is For People
Tell Congress to Stand Up to Corporate InfluenceLast year, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its perverse ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Because of that decision, corporations now have the “right” to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Powerful multinational corporations already exerted disproportionate influence in Washington. Citizens United makes this problem much, much worse.
Congress must act to stop corporate interests from using their immense financial resources to shut the public out of its own government. Here’s what Congress can do now:
1.) Support and pass the public financing of elections by becoming a co-sponsor of the Fair Elections Now Act. Public financing is the single most effective legislative remedy to the current corrosive system of campaign finance. The Fair Elections Now Act offers qualified congressional candidates a viable alternative that encourages small donations and provides competitive grants.
2.) Support shareholder protection to stop activist CEOs from using shareholder money to further their own political agendas. Corporate political expenditures, including expenditures for campaign ads, electioneering communications, issue advocacy and ballot measure campaigns at the state and federal levels should require majority approval of all shareholders.
3.) Support disclosure of election spending. The American public should know who is trying to influence their votes. New laws are also needed to prevent foreign money from flowing into U.S. elections and to stop political spending by corporations who receive government money.
The ultimate solution to this problem is a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v FEC. Corporations are not people, they do not vote, and they should not be able to influence election outcomes
http://www.citizen.org/congress-v-corporate-influence
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