To: The Wisconsin State House, The Wisconsin State Senate, and Governor Tony Evers
Citizens United? Let the People Decide
The people of Wisconsin deserve the opportunity to vote on Citizens United, and the state legislature and Governor Walker should give us that opportunity.
Please support a statewide advisory referendum asking the people of Wisconsin to instruct Wisconsin's Congressional delegation to propose and support -- and the Wisconsin state legislature ratify -- an amendment to the United States Constitution that clarifies three issues: 1) that money is not speech; 2) that corporations are not entitled to the same rights as natural persons; and 3) that Congress and the states can limit election-related spending to ensure that all citizens, regardless of wealth, can express their views to one another and their government on a level playing field.
Why is this important?
$30 million in of out-of-state money poured into the Baldwin-Thompson Senate race, as corporate CEOs and wealthy individuals from across the country unleashed a torrent of money to influence what happened right here in Wisconsin.
Now, we have an opportunity to take our democracy back, by building on the movement to reverse the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that equated corporations with people and money with speech:
Sign our petition to demand a statewide citizen's vote on the disastrous Citizens United ruling.