http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/11/1186397/-Rep-Rick-Nolan-introduces-We-the-People-amendment-to-overturn-Citizens-United
Rep. Rick Nolan (D-MN) (whose candidacy Daily Kos endorsed in our Orange to Blue efforts) is making good in Washington. On Monday, he introduced, along with Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that gave corporations free rein in our elections.
In making the announcement, lead sponsor Rep. Rick Nolan (DFL-Minnesota), said: “It’s time to take the shaping and molding of public policy out of corporate boardrooms, away from the corporate lobbyists, and put it back in city halls—back with county boards and state legislatures—and back in the Congress where it belongs.”
i was wondering how long before somebody led the fight against the dumbest thing in my lifetime the SCOTUS has done.
Representatives from the grassroots organization Move to Amend joined Nolan to announce the legislation. You read the text of the legislation at their site. The essentials of the bill are:
Rights recognized under the Constitution belong to human beings only, and not to government-created artificial legal entities such as corporations and limited liability companies; and
Political campaign spending is not a form of speech protected under the First Amendment.
it is wrong it leaves our political elections open to the highest bidder and since republicans keep telling us "we don't have the money", guess "we the people" are out of the bidding. can't help but wonder whose in?
