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Voting & Democracy

 

Stop the corporate takeover of democracy

The Supreme Court ruled to lift a 60-year-old ban that kept corporations from influencing federal elections — rights specifically granted to people.

Already, moneyed institutions have too much power over government. I shudder to think of a situation in which Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil and Big Pharma have even more control.

Tell your members of Congress to protect our democracy.

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Dear Member of Congress,

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United vs. FEC would allow corporations to spend money directly on attack ads supporting or opposing Congressional candidates.

This decision was made under the pretext that because a corporation is a “person,” they should be allowed to spend their massive aggregated wealth to influence elections.

A corporation is not a person with voting rights. Giving corporations the rights of people would fundamentally change our democracy.

Rep. Van Hollen, Sen. Schumer and the White House are working protect our democracy from the implications of this decision.

I urge you to take swift action in support of this effort.

Sincerely,

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Tell Congress: No NRA loopholes to DISCLOSE Act

Congress has created a loophole in the new DISCLOSE Act that would exempt the NRA and its corporate backers from disclosure requirements.

This is outrageous.  Real reform means that all organizations abide by the same disclosure rules.

Sign our petition to Congress below, and tell them to shoot down the NRA loophole.

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Dear legislator,

The DISCLOSE Act is intended to serve as a good stopgap measure to the recent Supreme Court decision by forcing greater disclosure of corporate contributions to political campaigns.

Allowing a special exemption for just one very powerful interest group that creates a loophole for the very corporate money that is the central concern of this bill is outrageous.

Please close this loophole and strengthen the bill by including the Shareholder Protection Act which will increase corporations' accountability to their shareholders.

Sincerely,

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