I have received the below email from you transmitted via <moveon-help@list.moveon.org>. In the email, you say:
I've decided to put my money where my mouth is by building a national, grassroots campaign to get Big Money out of politics.The truth is that I can't outspend the big political donors whose influence is corrupting our political system. I can't chase them out, scare them out, or shout them out. But together, we can all stamp them out.
Your email then, in effect, espouses joinder of the StampStampede campaign and MoveOn's campaign seeking overturn of Citizens United.
I applaud your joinder of forces.
I want to contribute to that if I can.
In March, I initiated I tweet to defeat the money monster. My idea is for this tweeting campaign to be as broad based as possible. A branch of the campaign right now is seeking synergy with Bernie Sanders. See Synergy with #BernieSanders2016.
I tweet to defeat the money monster is a grassroots campaign. It needs organizing, and volunteers who will do tweeting, and also support of as many campaign finance reform organizations as possible. To obtain the latter means that the campaign must be structured and do messaging in a way that all campaign finance reform organizations can support.
I invite you and StampStampede to help me out with advice about how best to structure I tweet to defeat the money monster, and its messaging, so that all campaign reform organizations can support it, and so that can help get grassroots volunteers who will do tweeting.
Please let me know if I can talk with you or another representative of StampStampede.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck.
P.S. Please pardon my public way of communicating to you on this, but it is very hard to get the attention of the campaign reform organizations, and I do this public communicating to try to help accomplish that. Maybe I shouldn't, but, until someone tells me and shows me something else that will work better, I am doing it this way.
From: Ben Cohen <moveon-help@list.moveon.org>
Date: Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:05 AM
Subject: First, Ben & Jerry's. Now, Citizens United.
To: Robert Shattuck <rdshattuck@gmail.com>
Hi MoveOn member,
This is Ben Cohen, the "Ben" of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. I've decided to put my money where my mouth is by building a national, grassroots campaign to get Big Money out of politics.
The truth is that I can't outspend the big political donors whose influence is corrupting our political system. I can't chase them out, scare them out, or shout them out. But together, we can all stamp them out.
The Stamp Stampede is a movement of tens of thousands of Americans legally stamping dollar bills with a simple message: "Stamp Money Out Of Politics—Amend the Constitution."
I know my fellow MoveOn members have been sending that same message through phone calls, rallies, and petitions for years, which is why I want to invite you to also spread that message by stamping your money—and support MoveOn in the process.
Will you donate at least $10 to support MoveOn's important efforts to overturn Citizens United? If you do, MoveOn will send you your own stamp so you can spread this message about getting Big Money out of politics.
Want to break up the big banks? Want to reduce the Pentagon's budget? Want to strengthen—not cut—Social Security? Want to take real steps to fight climate change?
Then your first order of business is to stamp money out of politics—because as long as big corporations, the 1%-ers, and their lobbyists can buy as much influence as they want, the rest of us will see no progress on the issues we care about the most. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
You can stamp your foot ... and you'll end up with a footache. Or you can stamp your dollar bills (yes, it's perfectly legal) and let your money do the talking. As your bills circulate, so will your message about reclaiming our democracy. It's like a petition on steroids—each bill will be seen an average of 875 times!1
And while you're taking action individually, you're also funding MoveOn's collective action—which is key if we're going to overpower the Big Money that wants to keep buying and selling our political system.
Will you chip in $10 or more—so MoveOn can continue to fight to overturn Citizens United and beat back the influence of Big Money, and so you can get your own stamp and join the Stamp Stampede? Click here to get your stamp—and help stamp Big Money out of politics—with a donation of $10 or more.
I'm excited to be working with MoveOn because they get the importance of this fight.
- MoveOn members helped push the Senate to hold a historic vote on a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United last fall.
- MoveOn members were part of the coalition that delivered 5 million signatures calling to overturn Citizens United this January.
- Over 100,000 MoveOn members signed petitions, made phone calls, and attended rallies urging President Obama to issue an executive order that all federal contractors must disclose political spending.
If this fight were easy, we'd be done by now. But we're battling against the wealthiest corporate interests in America—so we need the strongest, boldest grassroots movement we can build. That includes MoveOn and the Stamp Stampede, and it really relies on all of you.
Can you pitch in $10 or more today? Your money will make sure MoveOn keeps pushing for executive and legislative action to reclaim our democracy—and you'll get a stamp so you can tell the world: "Stamp Money Out of Politics—Amend the Constitution."
With you in the fight,
–Ben Cohen, Stamper-in-Chief
P.S. Here's an example of what a stamped bill looks like:
What do you say? Are you ready to get stamping?
Source:
1. The Stamp Stampede, accessed May 12, 2015
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