Supreme Court Jujitsu
 American elections should not be bankrolled by America’s
most powerful interests.
If the Supreme Court is going
to call corporations “people,”
and their money “speech” that can be spent without limit, then we can
-- at the very least -- insist that the people who make up those
corporations -- the shareholders -- get the final say on how their
money is spent on politics.
Urge your representatives to stanch the
flow of corporate money into politics. Require that corporations get the approval
of their shareholders before they can spend money on elections.
Letter text:
Dear legislator,
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United vs. FEC would allow corporations to spend money directly on attack ads supporting or opposing Congressional candidates. This decision was made under the pretext that because a corporation is a “person,” they should be allowed to spend their massive aggregated wealth to influence elections.
But, a corporation is not, nor has it EVER been, a person with voting rights and is made up of individual REAL people: shareholders.
We need you to stanch the flow of corporate money into politics by requiring that corporations get the approval of their shareholders before they can spend money on elections.
Please support House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA), Rep. Chris Van Hollen (MD), and Sen. Chuck Schumer (NY)'s legislation that will do just that.
Sincerely,
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