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

Fri Oct 24 12:01:07 PDT 2014

Hi, Wes:

       Gerry Gras, Caroline Yacoub, and other local Greens helped get 
David Cobb to speak in Palo Alto before there was a local MTA chapter.  
I've attended maybe 15% of the monthly Santa Clara County MTA meetings 
and 5% of the meetings of their weekly "Build Democracy, End Corporate 
Rule (BDECR)" meetings.  This included helping with their "Pledge to 
Amend" campaign mentioned in the subject of this email.

       I've been more active in other electoral reform efforts including 
the California Clean Money campaign (CAClean.org) and Dream Menders-San 
José (formed by refugees from MoveOn).  The latter group organized 
showings of 3 movies in the past year ("The United States of ALEC", 
"Inequality for All", and "Pay2Play") at the San José Peace & Justice 
Center, officially co-sponsored by the Santa Clara Green Party.  I also 
wrote most of the current text for the Wikipedia article on "Electoral 
reform in the United States", which compares initiatives to overturn 
Citizens United with other proposed electoral reforms.

       Spencer

On 10/24/2014 9:07 AM, Wes Rolley wrote:
> 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
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> **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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