PLEDGE TO AMEND CAMPAIGN

      



    

         THE PLEDGE TO AMEND CAMPAIGN

     TAKING BACK AMERICA FOR THE PEOPLE

The purpose of the Pledge to Amend campaign is threefold:

1) To inform the public about the critical need to get special interest money out of elections and abolish corporate personhood to Take Back America for the People.

2) To educate the public about how we can pass a constitutional amendment that will take us that critical step forward toward democracy. 

3) To elect representatives in Congress and state legislatures who will show that they want to serve We the People by making support for a strong constitutional amendment a central issue in their campaigns.


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PLEDGE TO AMEND

MAKING AN AMENDMENT A CAMPAIGN ISSUE

 

The only way to achieve democracy in the United States is to make candidates for Congress and state legislatures prove they want to represent We the People over They the Corporations is to make them pledge to support an amendment that will:
 

1) Ban corporate campaign expenditures.
2) Empower Congress to limit individual campaign expenditures.
3) Abolish corporate personhood.


HERE IS HOW YOU CAN HELP MAKE POLITICIANS ACCOUNTABLE:
1)  Ask all candidates for Congress and state legislatures to make a public pledge to support such an amendment.

2)  Educate politicians and voters of the need for an amendment to strip corporations of “rights” that should belong exclusively to We the People, not an amendment that would only give Congress the power to regulate what should be illegal: Corporate campaign expenditures.

3)  Encourage local groups to promote the message that all progress toward social justice, environmental responsibility and general prosperity depend on all of us working to end corporate influence over the US government. 

4)  Pass resolutions in city councils, county commissions and state legislatures. Get political, social, church or other groups to calls on your members of Congress and state legislators to take the pledge.

If you receive a written pledge to amend, please send an email to:               staggenborg4senate@hotmail.com.




  FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: Wouldn’t any amendment be an improvement?

A: NO! Giving Congress the power to regulate will NOT lead them to cut off the source of their campaign funding. Worse, it will implicitly enshrine corporate personhood in the constitution by acknowledging the “right” of corporations to contribute to campaigns.

Q: What other “rights” would be eliminated?

A:  Corporations could not claim the right to lie to the public, among other things. They would still have the privilege of limited liability and other privileges necessary to conduct business and protect investors.

       Q: Why should we expect this amendment to pass?

A: By making support for a proper amendment a campaign issue, we can force incumbents and candidates to tell us whether they are working for us or corporations. If they don’t support the amendment we will vote for candidates who do, as people increasingly recognize that this is the single most important issue that we can agree on.

        Q: Isn’t campaign finance reform enough?

A: The Supreme Court gutted model public financing laws in Arizona and Vermont using the same twisted “free speech” argument  upon which Citizens United was decided.

The only way to effectively introduce campaign finance reform is to BAN SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY IN ELECTIONS. The same amendment can establish the basis for public financing by abolishing all forms of bundled money and placing restrictions on individual donors.

SEE CANDIDATES WHO MADE A WRITTEN PLEDGE TO AMEND IN 2012 AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS  WHO HAVE  SPONSORED OR ENDORSED AMENDMENTS INTENDED TO ABOLISH CORPORATE PERSONHOOD AND/OR DECLARE THAT MONEY IS NOT FREE SPEECH.