Adam Schiff proposes Constitutional Amendment to end Citizens United

[OliverQ]

Link to tweet

I don't expect this to go anywhere with Republicans controlling Congress and most States, but I love that he's actually proposing this. The money poured into campaigns is destroying Democracy.

[Achilleaze]

1. This

K and r

[Shell_Seas]

2. Good!!

But Repubes won't go for it.

[Kathy M]

25. will be interesting to see which and if any democrats opose

I hope this does make it for a vote , would be god to see how everyone votes

[BigmanPigman]

3. It is sad (and frustrating)when you think how little dems can do these days!

[Nitram]

20. I agree, but it won't always be that way. It is amazing how quickly things can change in the old

democracy.

[Warpy]

4. You mean it would describe money as property

and speech as belonging only to individual, living human beings?

Funny, the founders seemed to thing that sort of thing is common sense. They failed to anticipate Republicans.

[Volaris]

18. Or that a panel of justices would recognize the privileges of corporations

To be on equal footing with the Rights that they fought, died, and got people killed for.

[superpatriotman]

5. Tell me why

Democrats aren't proposing Constitutional amendments on a daily basis?

At least then the message gets out there.

[LakeArenal]

9. I ask myself that a lot...

If anything else it draws the line between the choices people have.

Nothing wrong with a party that has a wish list that helps people not pockets.
Nothing wrong with advertising what Democrats stand for. They always says candidates don't run on the issues because of all the mud slinging. Okay, then talk about them now.

[brer cat]

21. What Constitutional amendments do you think we need?

There have been 33 proposed and 27 ratified since 1789, and you think we now need another one DAILY?

[George II]

22. You are WAAAAY to logical!!!

[brer cat]

26. I wonder if it might be considered spamming

to drop one daily.

[BainsBane]

28. Because they'd sound like idiots

For starters. You do realize they have actual jobs to do in congress? They aren't responsible for entertaining you.

[TeapotInATempest]

6. YES

Thank you, Rep. Schiff. I know it won't go anywhere - at least for now - but we need our elected officials to start acknowledging and fighting against the deleterious effects of money on our democratic process.

[ProfessorPlum]

7. excellent

let's get the rest of the Democrats on board and push this! Give people a reason to vote them in in 2018!

[XRubicon]

8. This needs to happen.

[2naSalit]

10. K&R

[byronius]

11. Schiff continues to serve the public admirably. A straight arrow. American.

[UCmeNdc]

12. Kick!

[ffr]

13. Corporationi owned republicans, you mean.

[PoliticAverse]

14. He also did this in 2015...

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http://www.losfelizledger.com/article/18262/
https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-schiff-reintroduces-constitutional-amendment-permitting-regulation-of-campaign-spending-

[smirkymonkey]

15. Bravo!

[polmaven]

16. I belong to a group "We the People"

which has been working for a few years to do the same thing. It has chapters in several states across the country. My chapter is currently working with our State representatives to "sponsor" the bill...It will be going to the Congress and then back to the states. It is a long and tedious process, but we intend to keep at it.

[Kablooie]

17. He's becoming the go-to guy if you want something done.

[leftinalabama]

19. This is what needs to happen

He should seriously consider running for President. I always said that any politician who advocated for getting the money out of politics would get my vote.

[ananda]

23. I saw this in his tweeter feed earlier.

And I must say I am VERY impressed!

[Kathy M]

24. This should have been done a long time ago

I hope it does get overturned

Elections should only have a set amount and fair time

[MichMary]

27. Would this apply to

union contributions?

[mr_lebowski]

34. Sure ... Union campaign contributions are a drop in teh bucket compared to corporate ones

And the massive one's coming from billionaires.

If we have to compromise in this way, I would (with regret) acquiesce. It's still a net-win for our side.

Besides just limits, we also need WAY more transparency, along with tougher laws/penalties.

Also very importantly we need for there to be no more getting around the limits by allowing corporations and billionaires to give unlimited money to 'special interest SuperPACS' ... which is really just an indirect way to promote candidates ... by promoting their 'agenda' or attacking their opponents ... instead of giving to their campaigns personally. Serious bullshit loophole right there that needs to end.

Then we need a serious push for public financing of all elections and a limit on their length/how long before an election they can start.

[BainsBane]

29. So he is going to run for President.

Good.

[TryLogic]

37. He has my vote.

[VOX]

30. Hell yes. Politics has BECOME big business...

And that's where the trouble begins.

[Alice11111]

31. Thank you, Rare Rep with

Cajones.

These things take years. Most people, even Trumpsters, are tired of money in politics. This might work.

[Honeycombe8]

32. I wish he were my senator. He's been a standout this year. Hard worker. Bold. Outspoken.nt

[oasis]

33. What kind of deplorable would be against getting money out of politics?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

35. Here is Theodore Roosevelt on corporate campaign contributions

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholders' money for such purposes; and, moreover, a prohibition of this kind would be, as far as it went, an effective method of stopping the evils aimed at in corrupt practices acts. Not only should both the National and the several State Legislatures forbid any officer of a corporation from using the money of the corporation in or about any election, but they should also forbid such use of money in connection with any legislation save by the employment of counsel in public manner for distinctly legal services.

[Gabi Hayes]

36. Dig this.....shitcher pants time

Conservatives are targeting 13 states, including Wisconsin, to pass the six more state resolutions necessary to trigger a constitutional convention


http://inthesetimes.com/article/20178/wisconsin-may-bring-koch-brothers-closer-to-constitutional-convention

Simon Davis-Cohen reported for In These Times in 2016 that a constitutional convention has long been a prize of corporate interest groups and states-rights advocates. While the Maine House rejected a convention proposal last week, 12 other states have recently applied to hold one. Combined with 16 states that passed resolutions during a conservative push in the 1980s, that brings the total to 28—just six short of the 34 needed to trigger the confab.

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Read it

It's closer than you think

They have it all figured out, from microgerrymandering, to school boards, to textbooks, to ALEC, to Con con.....they're almost there; their plan is near completion

There!

[lark]

38. So many Democrats are stepping up.

Schiff, Joe Kennedy, Kamala Harris. I love our progressive rising stars as well as the reliables like Franken, Warren, Sanders etc.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

39. K. R. n/t

[c-rational]

40. Wonderful - It should be called the Anti-Roberts Amendment...the correct and rational thing to do

when faced with the idiocy of the a Supreme Court Citizen United Ruling. This should address the completely fictitious notion that our forefathers could believe that an international corporation such as GE could possibly have an equivalent voice as an individual.