Supreme Court is crippling democracy

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From: "RootsAction Team" <info@rootsaction.org>
Date: Apr 30, 2014 12:01 PM
Subject: Supreme Court is crippling democracy
To: <aquarianm@gmail.com>
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The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down its ruling in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, and it's Citizens United all over again. Our friends at Public Citizen are organizing the effort to undo this selling of government to the highest bidder. Click here to add your name to the petition for a constitutional amendment to overturn McCutcheon along with Citizens United. Our only hope of overturning Citizens United and now McCutcheon is if millions of Americans band together in saying "Enough!" to plutocracy. In a nutshell, the Supreme Court just permitted individuals — those who can afford to do so, at any rate — to dole out up to $5.9 million per election cycle to political candidates and parties. Until now, the limit was $123,000. Of course you'll have an equal right to spend $5.9 million on your preferred politicians, if you have that kind of spare change lying around! Reject this outrage now! Clicking here is the first step. Citizens United allowed Big Business to spend literally as much as it wants — predominantly in undisclosed contributions filtered through the likes of Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — distorting our elections. And it allowed billionaires like the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson to funnel unlimited sums through super PACs and other "dark money" conduits. Now McCutcheon removes meaningful restraints on direct giving to candidates. The First Amendment was never intended to provide a giant megaphone for the wealthiest to use to shout down the rest of us. This is the time for everyone who cares about the fate of our country to mobilize. Sign Public Citizen's amendment petition to overturn this latest Supreme Court disaster. -- The RootsAction.org Team   www.RootsAction.org Click here to unsubscribe and stop ALL email from RootsAction.