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marym625

(17,997 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 03:09 PM Sep 2014

Want money out of politics?

CALL YOUR SENATORS

We will never be able to achieve what must be done until we remove the reprehensible, ridiculous, current rules for money in elections and politics.

Everything is tied to money in politics. Climate change or global warming, corporate welfare, minimum wage, fighting over oil rights in the Arctic, poverty, denying rights to women and minorities, immigration, monopolies, media and the fallacy of factual news, health care, fracking, unwarranted spying, elimination of voters' rights, net neutrality and everything else in the world.  

Please contact your Senators to tell them to vote YES on September 8, 2014 for the Constitutional Amendment that will overturn Citizens United. 

Quoting Common Cause Illinois: 

"Right now, 50 senators, including Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, support this amendment, but we need the support of more senators to reach the two-thirds majority needed to pass this important piece of legislation." 

Please check out http://www.commoncause.org or go to your State Common Cause site on how to take action. 

This is not going to change everything but it's a damn good start.

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Want money out of politics? (Original Post) marym625 Sep 2014 OP
The " Monied " interests that Jefferson warned us about . orpupilofnature57 Sep 2014 #1
exactly. marym625 Sep 2014 #2
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