Day 3: Election Reform

I agree — unless we force them — and I have been encouraged by all the groups/people coming together to push this agenda.  

At the national level, MoveToAmend, Public Citizen, Common Cause, Free Speech for People, People for the American Way, United Repubilc and Dylan Ratigan are all working together.  

In response to that, in my community, we’ve organized MoveOn, Occupy, the Unions, DFA, and MoveToAmend’s local affiliate.  We’ll be part of a national event Jan 20 to Occupy the Courts – & have invited a R and a D mayor for 2 major cities in the county to speak, are asking them to help us get a resolution urging Congress to pass this amendment, and to put it on the next ballot so people can express their opinion. 

 We’re also asking them to help us make a presentation at a meeting of all the mayors in the county to urge all of them to do the same and to promote this in their state & nat’l Conference of Mayors meetings.  Some communities have already done this — Los Angeles, Boulder, CO, Missoula, MT for example.  

We’re also planning to organize all the folks in these local orgs to cover all meetings when members of Congress are back in their district for Town Halls, etc. so someone is there to specifically ask them if they will support this consittutional amendment and to keep doing that until Congress passes it.  

Once we’re organized to do that, we can put pressure on the state legislatures to ratify.We’re not going to get a different Congress until we get money out of politics — and the Supreme Court out of our elections.