Year: 2012

On June 11, 2012, the delegates at the national convention of the League of Women Voters adopted the following statement:

Be it resolved, we, the representatives of local and state Leagues assembled at the 2012 LWVUS Convention, call upon the LWVUS Board to advocate strongly for all appropriate, duly-considered measures which may include but are not limited to a constitutional amendment and which:

· are consistent with our current positions on campaign finance reform and individual liberties;

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This is a solid article in the Post on the many forces coming together to urge the Supreme Court to reconsider Citizens United.

Free Speech For People has played a key role in this effort, leading the filing of an amicus brief before the Montana supreme court, filing the first amicus brief in the Supreme Court’s review of the same case, and also organizing a rally in front of the Supreme Court, urging it to take this case as its opportunity to re-visit Citizens United.

Supreme Court faces pressure to reconsider Citizens United ruling

By Robert Barnes

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Governor Schweitzer lays out Montana’s well-founded reasons for its 100-year-old ban on corporate money in elections, which the Supreme Court is now blocking. Montana’s law is now the basis of a challenge to Citizens United, with the support of amicus briefs by Free Speech For People, Montana businesses, Senators McCain and Whitehouse, and 22 state attorneys general.
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Laura Lundquist

Bozeman Daily Chronicle

June 4, 2012

On an evening in May, eight volunteers gathered in the Gallatin Labor Temple in Bozeman for training in their new endeavor. A few had met before doing similar work: collecting voter information for political campaigns.

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A majority of Connecticut state legislators has signed onto a letter to Congress "in support of the Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens United v. FEC and restore elections to the people." and asking that Congress "firmly establish that money is not speech and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights."

Unlike most other states, Connecticut does not do state resolutions calling for Congressional action, so this letter marks Connecticut’s official action calling on Congress to amend the constitution.

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by Michael Beckel

IWatch News

May 24, 2012

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by Michael Tomasky

The Daily Beast

May 23, 2012

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Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA), our champion in Congress, has written this terrific response to George Will’s recent column attacking the People’s Rights Amendment. Will’s attack was originally published in the Washington Post and also syndicated nationwide.
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North Carolina’s legislature has just introduced a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and to "restore republican democracy restore republican democracy to the people of the United States."

Here’s a video — it’s a litle rough but it shows passion of our champions and friends in NC on this issue, and how articulate they are.

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NORTHAMPTON, MA (WSHM) – More than 50 Massachusetts cities and towns are saying "no" to a 2-year-old Supreme Court decision.

The Citizens United ruling makes it possible for large corporations and super political action committees to make potentially enormous donations to the candidate of their choice.

It is now coming under fire across the country and in western Massachusetts where more than a dozen cities and towns are swiftly passing resolutions that call for an end to the ruling.

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