I Just Came from the Opening Session of Move to Amend's Portland Convergence - This is Important.

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51. A Nattering Nabob Finally Got me to Use the Ignore Member Feature

While I appreciate everyone's questions and comments there are some people who just can't be objective and have to be negative about everything. One such member has caused me to, after being here for over six years, use the Ignore Member function.

Constructive questions about funding and how the amendment will affect unions and non-profits are all very reasonable and things everyone has a right and a need to know. Whether or not you're going to support MTA's efforts they are trying to amend the US Constitution so you, as citizens, have a right to know about their motives and the influences on the organization - such as big-money corporations. I respect and support that. It's why I've tried to answer questions posted here.

I don't appreciate the negativity of some people who seem to just try to point out everything as a negative. Those people also try to paint an organization which is trying to pave the way to get big-money out of elections as being something other than the positive organization with actual change of our current system as their goal.

There have been many, many threads here on DU about how we need to get the big-money out of politics. Well, since SCOTUS has said money is free speech and corporations are people under our current Constitution there's really only one way to do that. Follow the processes set forth in that Constitution to amend it to take personhood away from corporations and to declare money is not speech. That's what MTA is doing.

I found it surprising to get so much negativity about this on this thread. It did seem to come from a single source though who is now on Ignore.