Al Franken's petition for amendment to overturn Citizens United

[AdamSmith]

PUT CITIZENS UNITED IN THE DUMPSTER OF BAD IDEAS

Look, Citizens United was a disaster. The question is, what are we going to do about it? How are we going to stuff this “corporations are people, elections are auctions, democracy is for sale” mess into the Dumpster of Bad Ideas?

Here’s how: A constitutional amendment that puts power back in the hands of the people. The actual, human people.

Sign below to join me in calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

PETITION

We, the undersigned, have had it. Corporations are not people. Elections should not be auctions. And we refuse to let our democracy be put up for sale.

We are standing together to call for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

SIGNED,

Al Franken

&

[YOUR NAME HERE]

http://www.alfranken.com/landing/w1311cu/?subsource=CK-AF-CU-A06-FB-FBLP.D-FLL-NA-LA12-BO-18p-A101.C5.T5.P1

[AdamSmith]

P.S. Photos of Franken & co. at Twin Cities Pride.

http://www.alfranken.com/2014/07/01/photos-team-franken-twin-cities-pride/

[RA1]

I have to agree. Only in a narrow legal sense and mainly for tax purposes should corporations be considered "people".

Best regards,

RA1

[MsGuy]

The development of the private perpetual corporation as a form for economic enterprise is one of the truly great innovations of the 19th Century, every bit as important as the build out of the rail roads (which, by way of example, could not have been constructed under any of the prior forms of organization). And, given the constraints of the procedures and concepts available under English and American common law, treating corporations as legal persons was about the only way to handle these new entities.

But it's nuts to endow them with civic and political rights like free speech and judges know that. When you see a court doing silly stuff like Citizens United, what you're really seeing is are judges who favor whatever political agenda they figure will benefit from from freeing the folks who run those corporations to use corporate money to buy more heft in the public arena.

[Bucknaway1614502762]

Why did the government put them in that position in the first place? There is a lot of misinformation related to the issue. I will be glad when the next president is sworn in.