Corporations Are Not People

Don't Let Their Money Drown Out My Voice!

The Supreme Court is considering setting aside 100 years of precedent with a ruling that would dramatically INCREASE the amount of corporate money in politics and elections.

Please write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper (sample below), before our justices get too far down the wrong path.

Comments / Questions? Corporations Are Not People, So Don't Let Their Money Drown Out My Voice! As someone who believes strongly in civic participation, the idea that a corporation — which the Supreme Court has called an "artificial entity," and that is made up of individual shareholders and employees with different political beliefs — could be allowed to spend directly from its massive corporate treasury on ads for or against a candidate is truly frightening. A corporation is not, nor has it ever been, a person with voting rights. Corporations are not our neighbors, they cannot get married, they cannot die, and a corporation has never been a constituent member of "We the People." However, a decision in favor of the plaintiff in Citizen's United vs. the Federal Election Commission — the controversial case that was reheard in Washington on September 9th — would allow corporations to use their immense wealth to loudly promote or attack candidates through unlimited expenditures on ads. Barack Obama sailed into Washington on a wave of change, buoyed by small donations he received from millions of American citizens. To suddenly decide that those voices should be drowned out by the massive accumulated money of a single "corporate person," runs counter to the very ideals of a representative democracy.

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