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| Portrait, Michael Moore, 04/03/09. (photo: Ann-Christine Poujoulat/Getty) |
28 Decemeber 11
I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year - walk three miles a day, use an eco-friendly laundry detergent, write fewer anonymous letters to Wolf Blitzer - but I want to declare, right here, that one of my top priorities in 2012 will be to spearhead a drive to remove ALL money from our electoral process, period. Nothing - and I mean NOTHING - we want to accomplish, from creating jobs to protecting the environment to preventing wars, will happen as long as those who hold the purse strings are the ones who own our Congress.
This destruction of our democracy can only be stopped
if the majority of us make it clear that we will ONLY vote for those
candidates who sign a pledge to make it their TOP legislative priority
to push for a constitutional amendment prohibiting any person or entity
from donating ANY money to a candidate's campaign (and that includes a
millionaire candidate buying his own election). Plus, they must pledge
to back a law banning elected officials from working as lobbyists after
they leave office.
The majority of Americans already support strong campaign finance reform and lobbying bans. So what are we waiting for? Now is the time to act!
Here is the wording to the constitutional amendment we need:
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