Remove Corporate Money From Our Elections Petition for Action to the Bar Harbor Town Council

As citizens of Bar Harbor we are concerned that big money from corporate and other sources unfairly influences our local, state, and federal elections, politicians, and public policy. The winners in these elections write laws that do - or don't - send funds to our town.

We therefore urge the Bar Harbor Town Council to stand with communities across the country to defend democracy from the corrupting effects of undue corporate power by amending the United States Constitution to establish that:

1. Corporations are not entitled to the Constitutional protections or "rights" of natural persons;

2. Money is not speech, and therefore regulating political contributions and spending is not equivalent to limiting political speech,

and to instruct our state and federal representatives to enact resolutions and legislation to advance this effort.