To: The United States House of Representatives
Democrats in the House: Vote to Repeal Citizens United Now
The 5-4 GOP SCOTUS ruling in Citizens United is the greatest single threat to our representational democracy. That ruling made corporations the equivalent of living human beings with the same political speech rights and unlimited corporate money the equivalent of that free speech to be secretly spent to deceive voters and to make incumbent lawmakers cower. Publicly force the Republican Senate to vote on this vitally needed amendment to our Constitution so that the American people can vote Republicans out of the Congress and the White House in 2020 and make our lawmakers at every level of government accountable to their constituents and not corporations!
Why is this important?
The elimination of the influence of corporate money in politics and the egregious economic injustice to almost all Americans caused by that corporate money in politics is long overdue. All but big corporations and the very wealthy have been adversely affected by the 5-4 GOP SCOTUS ruling in Citizens United because it allows corporations and not our elected lawmakers to control and exploit our lives and our environment for their self-aggrandizement to the serious detriment of working families, small business owners of which I am one, and the very life of the planet.