You are absolutely right. Democrats have to take that next step and renounce the big money interests like FDR did. Biden walking the picket line was a toe in the water. But as a practical matter I don't think you can renounce taking the donations until the end of big money can be legislated by ditching Citizens United and the PACs. That …
You are absolutely right. Democrats have to take that next step and renounce the big money interests like FDR did. Biden walking the picket line was a toe in the water. But as a practical matter I don't think you can renounce taking the donations until the end of big money can be legislated by ditching Citizens United and the PACs. That requires winning back the house and keeping the senate and the presidency.
The news media is not going to be fair here in terms of coverage so that means you have to buy coverage through advertising and funding voter registration and outreach and get out the vote programs and unfortunately that still requires big money.
Do you see a way to do it before Citizen United can be reversed through legislation?
We have a Fl House Rep who takes NO corporate donations. She is a boots- on -the -ground ,millennial dynamo currently campaigning for her 4th and final term. She’s not ruling out running for governor. There is hope in Florida….
It can work in congressional districts with relatively safe seats. But my beloved representative here in NJ made that pledge and lost his bid for a 3rd term when he was was targeted by Republican dark money. It did not help that the Democratic machine in NJ redistricted him to make the other districts safer seats and packed the Republican areas into his hew district boundaries.
HJR-54. It’s worth contacting your representative and requesting that he/she co-sponsor, if they haven’t already. It will require legislation, but this is the only way to get the concepts of corporate personhood and money is speech away from precedent consideration by the Supreme Court. It’s not just Citizens United; the corporate personhood precedent started back in the 1880s. We have to circumvent the court, and the only way to do that is via Constitutional Amendment. More info here: MoveToAmend.org.
You are absolutely right. Democrats have to take that next step and renounce the big money interests like FDR did. Biden walking the picket line was a toe in the water. But as a practical matter I don't think you can renounce taking the donations until the end of big money can be legislated by ditching Citizens United and the PACs. That requires winning back the house and keeping the senate and the presidency.
The news media is not going to be fair here in terms of coverage so that means you have to buy coverage through advertising and funding voter registration and outreach and get out the vote programs and unfortunately that still requires big money.
Do you see a way to do it before Citizen United can be reversed through legislation?
Georgia, you may be aware of ➡️ https://endcitizensunited.org/about-us/
We have a Fl House Rep who takes NO corporate donations. She is a boots- on -the -ground ,millennial dynamo currently campaigning for her 4th and final term. She’s not ruling out running for governor. There is hope in Florida….
It can work in congressional districts with relatively safe seats. But my beloved representative here in NJ made that pledge and lost his bid for a 3rd term when he was was targeted by Republican dark money. It did not help that the Democratic machine in NJ redistricted him to make the other districts safer seats and packed the Republican areas into his hew district boundaries.
HJR-54. It’s worth contacting your representative and requesting that he/she co-sponsor, if they haven’t already. It will require legislation, but this is the only way to get the concepts of corporate personhood and money is speech away from precedent consideration by the Supreme Court. It’s not just Citizens United; the corporate personhood precedent started back in the 1880s. We have to circumvent the court, and the only way to do that is via Constitutional Amendment. More info here: MoveToAmend.org.