Senator Al Franken, American Hero, Fighting Citizens United

[pimpdave]

Senator Al Franken, a great American, is standing up against a corrupt system by sponsoring an amendment to the Constitution to allow the PEOPLE to decide the outcomes to elections, not corrupt CORPORATIONS.

Please sign the petition, then send a thank you letter to Senator Al Franken thanking him for his great service and heroism.

http://www.sherrodbrown.com/petition/ov ... united-a2/



OCCUPY!

[rockfist]

Comedian Al Franken is an example why we need voter fraud protections in our elections...read the history of how the Democrats cheated to get this asshat elected.

[Night Strike]

So he's an American Hero for fighting to remove the First Amendment from the Constitution??

By the way, if you want people to support a Constitutional Amendment, shouldn't you actually provide them with the wording of the amendment and not some vague position petition. By the way, the line " and returning elective power to the actual, human citizens of the United States of America" is quite funny considering it's still actual humans who vote and therefore have the elective power. Sounds like they don't know what is going on.

[pimpdave]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/07/10 ... g-fathers/

http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/inde ... _conc.html

[thegreekdog]

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/ ... =N00029016

Top 5 contributors:

- Time Warner
- University of Minnesota
- General Electric
- Moveon.org
- Council for a Livable World

Top 5 Industries

- Lawyers/law firms
- Retired
- TV/Movies/Music
- Securities & Investment
- Miscellaneous Business

[pimpdave]

Not sure what you're trying to say there, thegreekdog, but that doesn't diminish the great work that Senator Al Franken is doing, or change the fact that he shares our Founding Fathers' concerns about letting corporations control the government or condense too much power into the hands of the few (the 1%).

[Night Strike]

Not sure what you're trying to say there, thegreekdog, but that doesn't diminish the great work that Senator Al Franken is doing, or change the fact that he shares our Founding Fathers' concerns about letting corporations control the government or condense too much power into the hands of the few (the 1%).

Do you support unions spending unlimited amounts of money in campaigns?

[puppydog85]

Right PD,

That is why they set up the Senate to have them not elected by the voter, but by the state governments. See how much they trusted the common voter and loved democracy.

[Night Strike]

Right PD,

That is why they set up the Senate to have them not elected by the voter, but by the state governments. See how much they trusted the common voter and loved democracy.

Sounds like someone doesn't understand why Senators were originally chosen by state legislators.

[thegreekdog]

Not sure what you're trying to say there, thegreekdog, but that doesn't diminish the great work that Senator Al Franken is doing, or change the fact that he shares our Founding Fathers' concerns about letting corporations control the government or condense too much power into the hands of the few (the 1%).

I was illustrating how Mr. Franken received his campaign dollars and from whom.

For example, he received campaign money from two large corporations. He also received campaign money from Moveon.org, an entity very similar to, but much larger than, Citizen's United. If you like your American heroes to be hypocrits, have at it.

[rockfist]

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00029016

Top 5 contributors:

- Time Warner
- University of Minnesota
- General Electric
- Moveon.org
- Council for a Livable World

Top 5 Industries

- Lawyers/law firms
- Retired
- TV/Movies/Music
- Securities & Investment
- Miscellaneous Business

Isn't the University of Minnesota partially publically funded? If so, I would strongly object to a public entity financing a campaign.
That is unethical.

[thegreekdog]

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00029016

Top 5 contributors:

- Time Warner
- University of Minnesota
- General Electric
- Moveon.org
- Council for a Livable World

Top 5 Industries

- Lawyers/law firms
- Retired
- TV/Movies/Music
- Securities & Investment
- Miscellaneous Business

Isn't the University of Minnesota partially publically funded? If so, I would strongly object to a public entity financing a campaign.
That is unethical.

I thought the same thing; I do not know the answer. They could be like the University of Pennsylvania, which is not funded directly by the state.

[Juan_Bottom]

I was illustrating how Mr. Franken received his campaign dollars and from whom.

For example, he received campaign money from two large corporations. He also received campaign money from Moveon.org, an entity very similar to, but much larger than, Citizen's United. If you like your American heroes to be hypocrits, have at it.

F*ck those corporations, Franken's a genius who's playing the game. If you only elect people who never received donations from corporations then you won't have any federal government, except for maybe terrible rich people like Romney. Because those people can afford it. I have 0 problem with Franken taking their money and using it to fight Citizen's United, even though it could hurt them. If anything I'd like to see this go the distance and really hurt corporation's ability to donate to any campaign.
There's 23 states and the District of Columbia who all called for a Constitutional amendment. More power to us!

[BigBallinStalin]

So, how do "we" (whoever that is) get more power from the Constitutional Amendment?

[pimpdave]

He also received campaign money from Moveon.org, an entity very similar to, but much larger than, Citizen's United.

Obfuscation. CU has vastly more money than Moveon.org, which just has more names on a list.

[thegreekdog]

He also received campaign money from Moveon.org, an entity very similar to, but much larger than, Citizen's United.

Obfuscation. CU has vastly more money than Moveon.org, which just has more names on a list.

Whatever helps you sleep better at night in your Moveon.org sheets provided by Walmart, a contributor to Moveon.org.

[pimpdave]

Empire Strikes Back sheets.

[thegreekdog]

Empire Strikes Back sheets.

YOU DIDN'T KEEP THEM IN THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE?!?!?!

What the marx is wrong with you?