I am here today to ask you to visit www.ConwayFightFund.com and join my campaign to help us fight back against corporate influence over democracy.
The Supreme Court decision in Citizens United opened the floodgates for corporations and special interests to spend millions of dollars attacking candidates in pursuit of their own agendas.
This is why I am pledging my full support for legislation introduced by Rep. Michael Capuano, the Shareholder Protection Act. This bill requires a shareholder vote on a corporation’s proposed political budget and would give shareholders a say in how the funds are spent. It also makes the corporation report how it spent its political dollars, after the fact, so the real owners of the company -- the shareholders -- know where their money went.
Last week, a corporate-funded group led by George W. Bush’s chief strategist Karl Rove launched a second attack ad against me in as many weeks.
Rove's special interest attack group, American Crossroads, has pledged to spend 49 million corporate dollars attacking Democrats this fall.
I need your help fighting back. Please visit http://www.ConwayFightFund.com to help take the fight to Rand Paul!