Forum Post: Town by town, Vermonters tackle question of ‘corporate personhood’ in the campaign process
Posted 12 years ago on March 5, 2012, 6:48 p.m. EST by BradB
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Source: The Associated Press - March 5, 2012
The goal is to get rid of the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which allowed corporations, unions and wealthy people to raise and spend unlimited campaign funds via political action committees known as "super PACs" as long as they don't work directly with a candidate.
At the heart of the debate is "corporate personhood," the U.S. legal concept that gives corporations rights like those of an individual. Critics say that it poisons the electoral process and that the only way to trash the practice is by amending the U.S. Constitution.
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"You start putting these together, I think you have the beginning of the most dynamic political movement in this country. It's because people are realizing they have to do it and they have to do it now."
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9b64840f-b161-4b1e-9446-429f5b257a1d
Tackles corporate personhood, money as speech and SCOTUS overreach:
http://www.change.org/petitions/pass-the-human-rights-amendment
I don't like corporate personhood, but I'm okay with union personhood.
I think women should get one vote and their vagina get one as well.
Perhaps if we are all forced to pay for free breast exams, we should agree their breasts each get a vote, or perhaps many more based on their cup size.