[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: The Pledge to Amend Press Release

Fri Oct 24 09:07:55 PDT 2014

The author of this note is a Democratic Party activist in Morgan Hill.  
The copy list includes several candidates for Morgan Hill Unified School 
District Trustee in the current election.

I reminded her that MTA spokespersons Cobb, Manski and Scopici-Belknap 
were all Greens.

However, how much are the Santa Clara County Greens active in the local 
MTA work?

Wes
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Subject: 	The Pledge to Amend Press Release
Date: 	Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:21:11 -0700
From: 	Swanee Edwards <swanee at garlic.com>
To: 	'ClaudiaRossi' <claudiamarossi at yahoo.com>, 'Wes Rolley' 
<wrolley at charter.net>, <mario.banuelos at morganhillcf.org>, 'donna 
ruebusch' <donna.ruebusch at gmail.com>, 'Gemma Abels' 
<gemabels at hotmail.com>, <rwoolf9523 at aol.com>, 'gamhft' 
<gamhft at garlic.com>, 'Bob Benevento' <rpbenevento at verizon.net>, 
<rspring at cadence.com>, 'terri eves knudsen library' 
<terri_librarian at yahoo.com>, <sousans at eta-usa.com>, 'Steven Spencer' 
<stevenspencer28 at gmail.com>

Hi,

Here is an example of the work the Dems are doing to overturn Citizens 
United. I received my fifth flyer today from the Charter School people. 
It is simply obcene what is being done and the Organization below is one 
of three movements all supported by Dems in this State to gut this 
decision. When it comes time to get back to work on this one, I hope 
that I can count on all of you to do what you can to support a 
Constitutional Amendment!

Ever Onward,

Swanee

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*From:*Eitan Fenson (scc-mta) [mailto:eitan at scc-mta.org]
*Sent:* Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:22 PM
*To:* Swanee Edwards
*Subject:* The Pledge to Amend Press Release

Dear Swanee (swanee at garlic.com),

We just send out a press release announcing the results of our Pledge to 
Amend effort of the past few weeks.  A copy of the relase appears below.

In solidarity,

Eitan

Santa ClaraCounty Move to Amend

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**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**

October 23, 2014

Contact: Eitan Fenson, eitan at scc-mta.org <mailto:eitan at scc-mta.org>, 
Richard Hobbs, richhobbs at msn.com <mailto:richhobbs at msn.com>

**Honda and Khanna Agree!**

**SANTA CLARA****COUNTY--**While incumbent Mike Honda and candidate Ro 
Khanna oppose each other in the 17^th  District U.S. Congressional race, 
they emphatically agree that money is not speech and only human beings 
merit rights under the U.S. Constitution.  They are two of 32 elected 
officials and candidates who publicly declared their support for a 28^th 
  Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in response to a request by the 
Santa Clara County affiliate of Move To Amend (SCC-MTA).

The California Supreme Court removed Proposition 49, a measure similar 
to the proposed 28th amendment, from the November ballot thus precluding 
the public from voicing its opinion.  Local democracy advocates then 
contacted elected officials and candidates in the upcoming election, 
asking them to declare their position on the Move to Amend 28^th 
  Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  As opposed to the U.S. Supreme 
Court rulings in /*/Citizen's United/*/ and a litany of cases supporting 
corporations as persons, the signed pledges for a 28^th  Amendment 
declare both that "Only human beings, nor corporations or other legal 
entities, are persons with constitutional rights" and "Political 
contributions and campaign spending are not equivalent to political 
speech and can be regulated".

The 32 elected officials and candidates who declared their support 
included federal and state elected officials who will have a say when 
Congress and state legislatures take up the amendment to the U.S. 
Constitution.  At the federal level Congressman Mike Honda and candidate 
Ro Khanna supported the pledge. At the state level Senators Jim Beall 
and Bill Monning as well as Assemblyman Rich Gordon signed on.  Also of 
note, California Attorney General Kamala Harris signed the SCC-MTA 
Pledge to Amend, as well as candidate Dave Cortese in the San Jose 
mayoral race.

SCC-MTA views the two-part Pledge to Amend as a litmus test to see which 
elected officials will support efforts to end corporate constitutional 
rights which infringe upon the rights of state and local governments and 
harm individual citizens, such as the /*/Citizens United/*/ decision, 
which allows corporations unlimited campaign contributions, and U.S. 
Supreme Court decisions that have prevented GMO labeling, permitted the 
sale of cigarettes near schools in violation of state law, invalidated 
warrantless OSHA inspections of businesses, and removed nearly all 
remaining restrictions on campaign contributions by the wealthy.

**Publicly Declared Supporters***
***of the Move to Amend 28****^th **** Amendment**

**Incumbents**

Jim Beall

CA Senate-15th District

Cindy Chavez

Supervisor-Santa Clara County

Rich Constantine

City Council-Morgan Hill

Dave Cortese

Supervisor-Santa Clara County

Rich Gordon

CA Assembly-24th District

Kamala Harris

Atty General-State of California

Mike Honda

Congress-17th District

Michael Kasperzak, Jr.

City Council-Mountain View

Rich Larsen

City Council-Los Altos Hills

Peter Leroe-Munoz

City Council-Gilroy

Jamie Matthews

Mayor-Santa Clara

Bill Monning

CA Senate-17th District

Jan Pepper

Mayor pro tem-Los Altos

Rod Sinks

City Council-Cupertino

**Non-Incumbent Candidates**

Daniel Bobay

City Council-Milpitas

Dominic Caserta

City Council-Santa Clara

Bill Ferguson

City Council-Milpitas

Eric Filseth

City Council-Palo Alto

John Karl Fredrich

City Council-Palo Alto

Marsha Grilli

City Council-Milpitas

Ro Khanna

Congress-17th District

Paul Kloecker

City Council-Gilroy

Roseann Alderete Lacoursiere

City Council-Santa Clara

Deepka Lalwani

City Council-Milpitas

Rajeev Madnawat

City Council-Milpitas

Robert Marini

Mayor-Milpitas

Rob Means

City Council-Milpitas

Voltaire Montemayor

City Council-Milpitas

Mohammed Nadeem

City Council-Santa Clara

Raul Peralez

City Council-San Jose

Greg Unangst

City Council-Mountain View

Cory Wolbach

City Council-Palo Alto

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