United Against Citizens United

[Rick Rowlands]

Actually I am with Dan too no this. 

I thought this was a cut and dried issue.  It says it right in the first amendment, "Congress shall make no law".  If there was a law, any law limiting speech then it is unconstitutional.

[irishbobcat]

Only You Dan, a true-hard core Neo_Con...would support this ruling.......

You just love to kiss big business's @$$....

[Dan Moadus]

If a corporation is taxed as an individual, and is exposed to liability as an individual, why should it not have the influence of an individual?

[irishbobcat]

Today - on the one-year anniversary of the Citizens United v. FEC decision that legalized unrestrained corporate spending on federal elections - the Green Party re-affirms its opposition to corporate personhood, corporate speech rights, and corporate control of America's public spaces, media, and elections.

After the Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 decision to strike down federal laws limiting the use of corporate money for campaign advertising, we predicted "a flood of election season ads promoting corporate-sponsored candidates".

Sure enough, the nonpartisan group Common Cause noted that "outside groups spent more than $296 million on the 2010 Congressional midterms – a 330 percent increase over 2006".

The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics found that millions of the dollars spent in the 2010 election were donated anonymously by corporations or nonprofits, and millions more were funneled into Congressional races by "super PACs" created in response to the Citizens United decision.

Greens have responded to this crisis in American democracy in innovate ways. Help support our opposition today.

David Cobb, the Green Party's 2004 candidate for the President of the United States, has been on the road with Move to Amend, a coalition seeking to amend the Constitution to outlaw corporate personhood. The Green Party is a key partner of the Move to Amend coalition and firmly believes that corporations should be stripped of the ability to spend unlimited sums on political campaigns.