CITIZEN outrage over the Supreme Court citizens united ruling continues to grow across the nation and Maine becomes the 13th state who's legislature is calling on Congress to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn citizens united vs FEC. From Daily Kos....
"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." —Warren Buffett
Maine became the
13th state in the nation to call for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Twenty-five House Republicans (in the state House) and five Senate Republicans joined Democrats to “call upon each Member of the Maine Congressional Delegation to actively support and promote in Congress an amendment to the United States Constitution on campaign finance.”
Maine joins West Virginia, Colorado, Montana, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, Maryland, Vermont, New Mexico and Hawaii in calling for that Constitutional amendment. Which means momentum:
The swift action by both houses of the Maine legislature, coming less than a month after West Virginia urged Congress to act, confirms the momentum that is building for the movement, which has been backed by almost 500 communities nationwide. Though media coverage has been scant, it is rare in recent history for a grassroots movement to amend the constitution to have attracted so much official support at the municipal, county and state levels nationwide.
It's a grassroots movement with both momentum and bipartisan support. Outside of the U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court, Republicans
hate corporate spending in campaigns [pdf] almost as much as Democrats (71 percent versus 73 percent, respectively) and want to see reform. A Constitutional amendment is not an easy thing to achieve, but the time is right for this one.
ORIGINALLY POSTED TO JOAN MCCARTER ON MON MAY 06, 2013 AT 02:47 PM PDT.
ALSO REPUBLISHED BY DAILY KOS.
