Vermont becomes first state to call for Constitutional convention to reverse Citizens United!

[grahamhgreen]

Plus, call to action:

We’ve just made history. The first state has called for a convention of the states in order to propose an amendment restoring free and fair elections.

Vermont has passed our resolution through the state legislature, making it the historic first state to call for a convention to fix Citizens United. This is what winning feels like.

When I first started this organization, I was told that amending the Constitution was impossible and we would never win through our strategy. The victory in Vermont proves that the cowardly cynics were wrong all along. We will win this fight for free and fair elections. More than ever, I know that is true today.

The first domino has fallen and our momentum will only grow going forward, as more states follow suit and pass additional applications for a convention. Every mountain climbed begins with one simple step. We have now taken that step and need you to join us for this epic journey.

Every generation of Americans has amended the Constitution and now it’s our turn. Get in on this - come join us while we’re still writing the story of how we won the fight for free and fair elections - become a part of history in the making.

Future generations will call us patriots, and you’ll be proud of every hour you invested or every dollar you gave to participate in reclaiming our representative democracy. Thank you for your support.

See you at the convention,

Cenk Uygur, Wolf-PAC
http://www.wolf-pac.com/

[msongs]

1. or he could get his buddies in congress to propose an amendment without a convention nt

[TexasProgresive]

2. You do know that there has only been one constitutional convention?

A constitutional convention will probably not stop at one thing. The delegates can throw the whole document out and start over. This is a very scary thing.

[think]

3. Sometimes it feels like they have already

thrown it out....

[grahamhgreen]

4. Yes, we need to get on this and pass the amendment through congress.

[sabrina 1]

5. One day history will look back at this as one of the most ridiculous rulings ever made by the SC.

I wonder if it was a test to see how stupid people are, to see whether people would accept it or not?

But if we extend it to its illogical conclusion, EVERYTHING is speech. Money, I have been told by Right Wingers, is a way to 'express your opinion'.

So is murder, bank robbery among other things. If I were a defense attorney, I can imagine telling the jury that my client was merely 'expressing his opinion'. If expression is speech then everything we do is speech.

Good for Vermont. It is a great way to make money poison in elections from now. To use the issue of Corporate Funding to discredit candidates.

I hope they won't be the last.