[Vision2020] FW: Obama backs amendment

[Scott Dredge]

Does anyone know the specific text of the proposed Constitutional Amendment?  Obama is blowing smoke...

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:51:05 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] FW: Obama backs amendment

Yea!!!!! From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Tom Hansen
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] FW: Obama backs amendment THANK GOD ! ! !Seeya round town, Moscow. Tom HansenMoscow, Idaho "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students.  The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)." - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007) 
On Aug 31, 2012, at 11:39 AM, "Andy Boyd" <moscowrecycling at turbonet.com> wrote:In case you don’t think corporations are people. Andy Boyd From: Robert Weissman, Public Citizen [mailto:robert at citizen.org] 
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 3:59 PM
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Subject: Obama backs amendment <~WRD000.jpg>Andrew,

Something President Obama wrote during a public Q&A yesterday is major news:

“...I think we need to seriously consider mobilizing a constitutional amendment process to overturn Citizens United...”

You read that right.

The President of the United States has joined Public Citizen and activists like you in recognizing the necessity of a constitutional amendment to prevent a hostile corporate takeover of our democracy.

Let’s make the most of this moment so that we don’t see our democracy sold off to giant corporations and business tycoons.

Please take a few minutes RIGHT NOW to urge your friends, family, neighbors and colleagues to join you in signing the petition at DemocracyIsForPeople.org for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

Forward them this email with a link to DemocracyIsForPeople.org. And share that link on Facebook, Twitter and wherever else you’re active.

You’ve already taken the very significant first step by signing the petition.

This is a critical moment. Take another step by introducing as many people as you can to this historic campaign.

President Obama’s support of an amendment is getting a lot of coverage, including stories that also highlight Public Citizen’s role as a leader in the nationwide amendment movement.

In Mother Jones, Public Citizen’s Jonah Minkoff-Zern, one of our Democracy Is For People organizers, says, “We see every day ... the passion that people across the political spectrum have for a constitutional amendment to prevent the voices of the many from being drowned out by the money-fueled megaphone of the few.”

In Huffington Post, Lisa Gilbert, acting director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division, says, “It’s meaningful that the president is taking note as he is forced to play the game under Citizens United.”

The president also called for “passing the DISCLOSE Act” and “legislation prohibiting the bundling of campaign contributions from lobbyists.” Nobody has been working harder than Public Citizen on these important policies.

David Bossie, head of Citizens United, the right-wing propaganda group for which the infamous ruling is named, offered this three-word response to the news of President Obama’s support for a constitutional amendment: “Bring it on.”

Let’s show him that we can bring it on.

Tell everybody about DemocracyIsForPeople.org TODAY.

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Robert Weissman
President, Public Citizen
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