Huffington Post

John Stephens

January 30, 2013

Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern last Tuesday proposed two Constitutional amendments on the House floor that would overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which lifted limits on political spending and unleashed a flood of funding into political organizations starting in 2010.

Speaking with HuffPost Live on Wednesday, McGovern said his two amendments received an outpouring of attention after his staff posted them on the social media site Reddit.

“We’re trying to reach out in different ways to communicate with people and posting it on Reddit was suggested to me by my staff as a way to reach a whole new audience,” McGovern told HuffPost Live’s Jacob Soboroff. “We did it and the response was incredible — we’ve gotten calls from all over the country.”

 

Watch the full interview here.