[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Overturn Citizens United Act on Governor's Desk!

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


       SB 1272 would place an initiative on the November ballot asking 
California voters to demand that Congress pass a U.S. Constitutional 
amendment that corporations are not people, and money is not speech 
(overturning the US Supreme Court Citizens United decision).


       It just passed the California Senate, having previously passed 
the Assembly.  Governor Brown has NOT said he would sign it.  Please 
urge him to do so, e.g., via 
"http://CAdisclose.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=218404b9b7d17b8e087467c45&id=7a9df70e24&e=4646e74eb4". 



       Spencer


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Overturn Citizens United Act on Governor's Desk!
Date: 	Mon, 7 Jul 2014 02:48:01 +0000
From: 	Trent Lange, CA Clean Money <newsletter at caclean.org>
Reply-To: 	Trent Lange, CA Clean Money <newsletter at caclean.org>
To: 	Spencer <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>




Ask Governor Brown to sign SB 1272! 
<http://CAdisclose.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=218404b9b7d17b8e087467c45&id=0655f7cdb3&e=4646e74eb4>


Tell him: /"California voters deserve the right to vote to overturn 
Citizens United. Corporations aren't people, and money isn't speech! I 
stand with the Money Out Voters in Coalition and the California Clean 
Money Campaign in asking you to sign SB 1272 to let the voters weigh in 
on this November's ballot.

Then please help pass SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act, to make sure 
political ads have to show who really pays for them. Thank you."/
Sign the Petition Now! 
<http://CAdisclose.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=218404b9b7d17b8e087467c45&id=7a9df70e24&e=4646e74eb4>


  /Overturn Citizens United Act/ passed the Senate and Assembly!
  — SB 1272 now on Governor's Desk


/If you're really active and have signed our petitions in multiple 
places, we may have already told you the great news and asked you to 
take action.  If so, an extra big thank you./

In a fitting victory for Independence Day, SB 1272, the /Overturn 
Citizens United Act/, passed the Senate on the last legislative session 
before the 4th of July. It's now on its way to Governor Brown's desk for 
him to sign!

SB 1272 would put a measure on this November's ballot letting 
Californians demand that Congress pass a U.S. Constitutional amendment 
that overturns its terrible /Citizens United /decision and that says 
once and for all that _corporations aren't people_, and _money isn't 
speech_.

*Now it goes to Governor Brown's desk.  So far he hasn't committed to 
signing it.*

Please sign the petition urging Governor Brown to sign SB 1272 to put 
the /Overturn Citizens United Act/ on the ballot! 
<http://CAdisclose.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218404b9b7d17b8e087467c45&id=c06bd099c8&e=4646e74eb4>

This legislative victory happened only because we all worked together. 
The author of the bill, Senator Ted Lieu, and its sponsor Money Out 
Voters In have done a fabulous job pushing it forward.  The California 
Clean Money Action Fund has been happy to help.

Proving that the Senate heard you loud and clear, they voted 24 to 11 to 
pass it. All the Democrats who voted said "Yes".  None of the Republican 
Senators voted "Yes".  It had passed the Assembly on a similar 
party-line vote of 52-23.

*Here's what the "advisory question" on this November's ballot would say:*

/“Shall the Congress of the United States propose, and the California 
Legislature ratify, an amendment or amendments to the United States 
Constitution to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 
(2010) 558 U.S. 310, and other applicable judicial precedents, to allow 
the full regulation or limitation of campaign contributions and 
spending, to ensure that all citizens, regardless of wealth, may express 
their views to one another, and to make clear that the rights protected 
by the United States Constitution are the rights of natural persons only?”/

Trent Lange
President, California Clean Money Action Fund


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