[All] Fwd: Constitutional Amendment Heating Up

[Robert Milligan]

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> From: "Robert Weissman, Public Citizen" <publiccitizen at mail.democracyinaction.org 
> >
> Date: February 9, 2010 4:16:37 PM GMT-05:00
> To: "Mike Nickerson" <sustain5 at web.ca>
> Subject: Constitutional Amendment Heating Up
> Reply-To: publiccitizen at mail.democracyinaction.org
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>
> Robert,  [how's that for customizing?  mn]
>
> Outside, Washington, D.C. is smothered in near-record amounts of  
> snow. But inside - inside the halls of government, to be specific -  
> things are heating up.
>
> What sparked the fire?
>
> The Supreme Court ruled last month that corporations can spend  
> unlimited amounts of money in our elections.
>
> You already joined the fight to defend our democracy from a  
> corporate takeover by signing Public Citizen's petition for a  
> constitutional amendment to counteract this radical ruling.
>
> I'm asking you to help grow the resistance by forwarding this email  
> to 10 friends and family members and asking them to sign the  
> petition, too.
>
> We must preserve First Amendment rights for actual people and the  
> press. The First Amendment was never intended to apply to artificial  
> constructs like profit-hungry corporations.
>
> Many members of Congress are introducing amendments and signaling  
> their support, including Representatives Donna Edwards, John  
> Conyers, Marcy Kaptur, Leonard Boswell and Dennis Kucinich, and  
> Senators John Kerry, Arlen Specter and Chris Dodd.
>
> A real movement is taking shape.
>
> Our petition is already 45,000 citizens strong. People instinctively  
> recognize the Supreme Court's decision for the disaster that it is.
>
> But constitutional amendments do not come easy. We need a  
> groundswell of support from every corner of the nation. We need  
> hundreds of thousands of people to drive the legislative push in  
> Congress.
>
> The first step is building our petition.
>
> Please forward this email to at least 10 friends and family members  
> today. Ask them to visit DontGetRolled.org and sign the petition, too.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Robert Weissman, President
>
>
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