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Obama: Citizens United Helped Pave The Way For Shutdown

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In an article from Nation of Change on Friday www.nationofchange.org/obama-citizens-united-helped-pave-way-shutdown-1381414736 they say that Citizens United played a part in paving the way to the shutdown.

"In Tuesday’s press conference, President Obama got it right: The flood of big money into our elections has enabled more extreme politics to influence decision making—and that leads to impasses like the current government shutdown. The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision is one big reason for our money-soaked elections."

 The article went on to say "On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard a case that could tear away even that thin veil: McCutcheon v. the Federal Election Commission, a case brought by Shaun McCutcheon, a Republican donor from Alabama, seeking to abolish limits on the amount of money donated to candidates.

Under Citizens United, anyone—including giant corporations—can contribute as much as they want to so-called “independent” organizations, like Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS. If McCutcheon prevails, the same unlimited amounts of cash will flow directly to candidates and their political parties. It’s the last step toward shredding any form of restriction on election contributions."

But here’s the good news: By a wide margin, Americans don’t like this legalized form of political corruption, and they are taking action. Since the Citizens Uniteddecision, groups like Move to Amend, Public Citizen, and Free Speech for People have been at the forefront of campaigns to pass a constitutional amendment that would bring back our ability to regulate money in politics.

See our original post from October 2, 2013 right here on this blog: http://medic3569.blogspot.com/2013/10/sign-this-petition-to-tell-supreme.html

We asked you to sign a petition on October 9, 2013: http://medic3569.blogspot.com/2013/10/mccutcheon-v-fec.html Sign the petition if you don't want to see more corruption inn our politicians.

Here is the link to go to if you want to join us in signing the petition to the Supreme Court telling the Justices that we don't want even more corruption of our Congressmen/women and Senators by allowing UNLIMITED campaign contributions by individuals:

PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK TO SIGN THE PETITION TO THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES:

https://www.change.org/petitions/the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states-of-america-reject-shaun-alabama-businessman-shaun-mccutcheon-s-challenges-to-the-aggregate-limit-on-campaign-contributions-that-an-individual-donor-can-make-in-a-single-election-case-to-be-heard-oct-8th