Money is not speech and a corporation is not a person. Human rights for human beings! This is common sense!
END CORPORATE RULE
Want to help end “corporate personhood” and Citizens United v Federal Election Commission? Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski’s AJR 22 —a start, but far too narrow— will be heard Tuesday, March 20 by the Ca Assembly Judiciary Committee.
AJR 22 merely calls for overturning Citizens United, but corporate control was already well entrenched before 2010. Please contact the Committee asap and tell them window dressing is not enough.
We need Ca to push for a constitutional amendment with EFFECTIVE language establishing that money is not speech and that a corporation is not a person and not entitled to constitutional rights.
Join Move to Amend members who will make this point during public comment at the 9:00 AM hearing in Sacramento, State Capitol Room 4202
Mike Feuer – Chair D – 42 State Capitol Room 2013 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 319-2042 Beverly Hills, W. Hollywood Fax (916) 319-2142
Donald Wagner – VC R – 70 Room 4153 (916) 319-2070 Irvine Fax (916) 319-2170
Toni Atkins D – 76 Room 4146 (916) 319-2076 San Diego
Roger Dickinson D – 09 Room 3126 (916) 319-2009 Sacramento
Jeff Gorell R – 37 Room 4208 (916) 319-2037 Ventura
Alyson Huber D – 10 Room 2117 (916) 319-2010 Lodi
Brian W. Jones R – 77 Room 3147 (916) 319-2077 Santee
William W. Monning D – 27 Room 6005 (916) 319-2027 Santa Cruz, Monterey Fax (916) 319-2127
Bob Wieckowski D – 20 Room 4162 (916) 319-2020 Fremont Fax (916) 319-2120
Staff: Drew Liebert, Chief Counsel Kevin Baker, Deputy Chief Counsel, Leora Gershenzon Staff Counsel, Tom Clark Staff Counsel, Anthony Lew Staff Counsel, Cindy Morante Committee Secretary, Saba Hashmat Assistant Secretary
AJR 22 “respectfully disagrees” with CU v. FEC and calls upon Congress to send the states a constitutional amendment overturning it. But that isn’t enough. If an amendment based on AJR 22 were ratified, it would merely take us back to 2009 when corporate spending in elections and corporate control in general were already overpowering the public interest. Thank Wieckowski for getting the ball rolling and let him and the whole judiciary committee know that AJR 22 needs stronger language. It would suffice to add to the 2nd Resolved clause: send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment ”establishing that money is not speech and that a corporation is not a person and not entitled to constitutional rights” and overturning Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to restore constitutional rights and fair elections to the people.
Many cities have passed strong Resolutions in that vein. The Move to Amend coalition is partnering with other organizations in a drive to pass 100 more local resolutions calling for a constitutional amendment by June 11. Some of the organizations, relatively new to this issue, naively call for weak resolutions to merely “overturn Citizens United.” Work for effective resolutions “with teeth.”
Money is not speech and a corporation is not a person. Human rights for human beings! This is common sense!
