National: Kucinich Announces ‘Game Changing’ Constitutional Amendment to Publicly Finance Federal Elections | NationofChange

On the eve of the sec­ond an­niver­sary of the Supreme Court rul­ing known as Cit­i­zens United, which opened the flood­gate of un­lim­ited, shad­owy cor­po­rate spend­ing in pub­lic elec­tions, Con­gress­man Den­nis Kucinich (D-OH) has in­tro­duced H. J. Res. 100, a con­sti­tu­tional amend­ment to res­cue Amer­i­can democ­racy from cor­po­rate money’s cor­rupt­ing in­flu­ence.

“Be­cause of the de­ci­sion by the Supreme Court ma­jor­ity in the Cit­i­zens United case, more money was spent on cam­paigns in the 2010 elec­tion than has ever been spent in a mid-term elec­tion.

“Be­cause of the Cit­i­zens United case, more money will be spent in the 2012 elec­tions than has ever been spent in an elec­tion in the his­tory of our coun­try.  Be­cause of the Cit­i­zens United case, Amer­i­can democ­racy has been put up on the auc­tion block,” said Kucinich.

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