Adam Schiff proposes Constitutional Amendment to end Citizens United

K and r

But Repubes won't go for it.

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

democracy.

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.

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

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

At least then the message gets out there.

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.

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

to drop one daily.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

And I must say I am VERY impressed!

I hope it does get overturned

Elections should only have a set amount and fair time

union contributions?

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.

Good.

And that's where the trouble begins.

Cajones.

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

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.

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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Democracy in Chains

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!

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

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.