Encouraging news for individual liberty-minded WCF readers who stand opposed to the ghastly politically-corrupting effects of the vast and potentially unlimited sums of grubby corporate special-interest dough, which infects, and will continue to infect, our American political process, in the wake of the boneheaded 201o SCOTUS decision, i.e, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Here's the lede from the wethepeoplecampaign.org blog which appears to be the first of the members of the online media community to "break" the story:
There's major news today in the world of We The People - Senators Tom Udall and Michael Bennet introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. FEC ruling.Read the whole story here:
Senator Udall made this statement today as he introduced the amendment:
"As we head into another election year, we are about to see unprecedented amounts of money spent on efforts to influence the outcome of our elections. With the Supreme Court striking down the sensible regulations Congress has passed, the only way to address the root cause of this problem is to give Congress clear authority to regulate the campaign finance system."
This proposed bill would " actually re-enfranchise real people. You know... "Actual People" who are legitimately entitled protected UNDER THE CONSTITUTION to participate in the American political process as the Constitution was originally designed. Let'em know furthermore that these self-serving (and constitutionally-unentitled [Corporations still can't vote]) corporate special interest groups' "megabucks" should should NOT influence our American political process in any way, and that, furthermore, should be banned permanently from offering even a dime of dough within the framework of American politics:
Normally at this time, after a good rant like the one above, we'd be posting a single consolidated email link to permit you all Weber County citizens to send an email to all of your (elected) federal legislators in one single email. Unfortunately, our Utah-elected federal legislators don't want you to know their individual email addresses (this info is probably reserved for lobbyists, we suppose), so we guess that you'll all have to go to their individual web pages, to log your cut/pasted email input:
- Email 1st District US Representative Rob Bishop
- Email Utah Senator Orrin Hatch
- Email Utah Senator Mike Lee
