<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Politicians</SPAN></SPAN> are not going to vote away their funding. They depend on it. The best that can be done is to have better sunshine laws that expose a politician's contributors. </SPAN></div>
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<DIV dir=ltr>At best I see this as a money maker and a vote getter for both parties with the Democrats 'fighting' for it and the Republicans fighting against it. I'm not even convinced that there is problem to be solved other than the disclosure factor of who is giving to who. And I don't buy the assertion that voices of ordinary citizens will be drowned out as if they haven't already been drowned out for decades by the so-called liberal media and right wing talk radio.<BR><BR>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV>Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:56:55 -0700<BR>From: kmmos1@frontier.com<BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>FW</SPAN>: Obama backs amendment<BR><BR>
<DIV class=yiv437993849ecxmoz-cite-prefix>On 8/31/2012 4:59 PM, Scott Dredge wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Does anyone know the specific text of the proposed Constitutional Amendment? Obama is blowing smoke...</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>The specific constitutional amendment language has not yet been written.<BR><BR>Here's the question and how Obama responded to it from the laptop he used for the <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>reddit</SPAN> session that received his posts:<BR><BR>Q: <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>suzmerk</SPAN><BR>What are you going to do to end the corrupting influence of money in politics during your second term?<BR><BR>A: <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>PresidentObama</SPAN><BR><BR><A class=yiv437993849ecxexpand href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/c60mnz9#" rel=nofollow target=_blank>[–]</A><A class="yiv437993849ecxauthor
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yiv437993849ecxflair-obama" title=Obama>Obama</SPAN><SPAN class=yiv437993849ecxuserattrs>[<A class=yiv437993849ecxsubmitter title=submitter href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>S</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class="yiv437993849ecxscore yiv437993849ecxunvoted">2292 points</SPAN> 2 days ago
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<DIV class=yiv437993849ecxmd>Money has always been a factor in politics, but we are seeing something new in the no-holds barred flow of seven and eight figure checks, most undisclosed, into super-<SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>PACs</SPAN>; they fundamentally threaten to overwhelm the political process over the long run and drown out the voices of ordinary citizens. We need to start with passing the Disclose Act that is already written and been sponsored in Congress - to at least force disclosure of who is giving to who. We should also pass legislation prohibiting the bundling of campaign contributions from lobbyists. Over the longer term, I think we need to seriously consider mobilizing a constitutional amendment process to overturn Citizens United (assuming the Supreme Court doesn't revisit it). Even if the amendment process falls short, it can shine a spotlight of the super-PAC phenomenon and help apply pressure for
change.<BR></DIV></DIV><BR><BR>Ken<BR><BR>======================================================= List services made available by First Step Internet, serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994. http://www.fsr.net mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com =======================================================</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net/</A><BR> <SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>mailto</SPAN>:<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"
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