"No person, corporation or business entity of any type,
domestic or foreign,
shall be allowed to contribute money, directly or indirectly,
to any candidate for Federal office or
to contribute money on behalf of or opposed to
any type of campaign for Federal office.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
campaign contributions to candidates for Federal office shall not
constitute speech of any kind as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution
or any amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Congress shall set forth a federal holiday for
the purposes of voting for candidates for Federal office."
It's Time to Get Money Out of Politics
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Dylan Ratigan campaigns for constitutional amendment
MSNBC -- Sept 28, 2011
[...]
The TV host [Dylan Ratigan] has called on Icahn Associates LLC lobbyist Jimmy Williams, a regular guest of his, to draft his constitutional amendment language. The easiest way to get around the land’s law that spending money on politics is a 1st Amendment right is to undo that link.
“We’re basically saying, ‘money isn’t speech,’” Williams said.
[...]
Corporations Have Unlimited Lobbying Power, Lobbyist Says (VIDEO)
by William Alden -- The Huffington Post -- 09-30-10
[...]
Appearing on the first installment of a series called "Follow the Money," the lobbyist, Jimmy Williams, a principal at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, said corporations and interest groups often do not report to the IRS the large amounts of money they give to lawmakers and political action committees, choosing instead to pay a nominal fine. The money goes into a "black hole," Williams said, perpetuating a system he called "corrupt." In 2009, the congressional publication The Hill named Williams one of capital's top corporate lobbyists.
Williams cited the Supreme Court ruling at the beginning of this year in the case <a href="http://www.fec.gov/law/litigation/cu_sc08_opinion.pdf">Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (pdf), in which corporations received protection for their First Amendment right to spend money on political causes. Essentially, Williams said, the decision gives corporations the same rights he, a registered lobbyist, has -- except the corporations don't have to register as lobbyists. [...]
MSNBC - Dylan Ratigan: Confessions of a Lobbyist
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
And the Citizen United's Secret-Santa Millionaires are just getting started ... if you thought the lying ads robo-calls, were bad last time -- just wait to see what they queue up for that non-stop continuous loop, this time around.
They can buy a LOT of Flags -- from China -- for much less than you imagine.
... Millionaire Money is Corporate Speech, afterall. Until we the People, change it.
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