Amy Goodman: Big Money Wins in the Big Skies of Montana - Truthdig
The outstanding Amy Goodman looks at this decision. Very good - a must read.
And these guys in Montana are fired up, and rightly so.
The Supreme Court has dissed them overturning their 100-year sensible tradition.
John Bohlinger, Republican Lieutenant Governor of Montana:
"The United States Supreme Court blocked our state law, because they said corporations are people. I’ll believe that when Texas executes one.”
Citizen's United has to be overturned. "Four states are now on record—Hawaii, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Mexico—calling for an amendment."
"“I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale,” William A. Clark reportedly said. He was one of Montana’s “Copper Kings,” a man who used his vast wealth to manipulate the state government and literally buy votes to make himself a U.S. senator. That was more than 100 years ago, and the blatant corruption of Clark and the other Copper Kings created a furor that led to the passage, by citizen initiative, of Montana’s Corrupt Practices Act in 1912. The century of transparent campaign-finance restrictions that followed, preventing corporate money from influencing elections, came to an end this week, as the U.S. Supreme Court summarily reversed the Montana law."
"Bohlinger said, “Now, Republicans and Democrats don’t always agree on policy matters, but there’s one thing we do agree on, and that is, corporate money should not influence the outcome of an election.” To which Schweitzer added: “Here in Montana, we have a proud, 100-year history of keeping corporate money out of our elections. Corporations aren’t people, and they should not control our government.... The United States Supreme Court blocked our state law, because they said corporations are people. I’ll believe that when Texas executes one.”
"Perhaps the only silver lining in the Supreme Court’s decision to send Montana back to the age of the Copper Kings is that a mass movement is building to assert the rights of people over the power of money in politics."
Citizen's United has to be overturned.
"Four states are now on record—Hawaii, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Mexico—calling for an amendment."
Let's keep up the effort until it is done.
Sign here http://www.sherrodbrown.com/petition/overturn-citizens-united-g/?gclid=CPGYzKXW9rACFYUaQgodKFVgvw
And here http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=f1c2660f-54b9-4193-86a4-ec2c39342c6c
The outstanding Amy Goodman looks at this decision. Very good - a must read.
And these guys in Montana are fired up, and rightly so.
The Supreme Court has dissed them overturning their 100-year sensible tradition.
John Bohlinger, Republican Lieutenant Governor of Montana:
"The United States Supreme Court blocked our state law, because they said corporations are people. I’ll believe that when Texas executes one.”
Citizen's United has to be overturned. "Four states are now on record—Hawaii, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Mexico—calling for an amendment."
"“I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale,” William A. Clark reportedly said. He was one of Montana’s “Copper Kings,” a man who used his vast wealth to manipulate the state government and literally buy votes to make himself a U.S. senator. That was more than 100 years ago, and the blatant corruption of Clark and the other Copper Kings created a furor that led to the passage, by citizen initiative, of Montana’s Corrupt Practices Act in 1912. The century of transparent campaign-finance restrictions that followed, preventing corporate money from influencing elections, came to an end this week, as the U.S. Supreme Court summarily reversed the Montana law."
"Bohlinger said, “Now, Republicans and Democrats don’t always agree on policy matters, but there’s one thing we do agree on, and that is, corporate money should not influence the outcome of an election.” To which Schweitzer added: “Here in Montana, we have a proud, 100-year history of keeping corporate money out of our elections. Corporations aren’t people, and they should not control our government.... The United States Supreme Court blocked our state law, because they said corporations are people. I’ll believe that when Texas executes one.”
"Perhaps the only silver lining in the Supreme Court’s decision to send Montana back to the age of the Copper Kings is that a mass movement is building to assert the rights of people over the power of money in politics."
Citizen's United has to be overturned.
"Four states are now on record—Hawaii, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Mexico—calling for an amendment."
Let's keep up the effort until it is done.
Sign here http://www.sherrodbrown.com/petition/overturn-citizens-united-g/?gclid=CPGYzKXW9rACFYUaQgodKFVgvw
And here http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=f1c2660f-54b9-4193-86a4-ec2c39342c6c
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