Monday, June 22, 2015

What does MAYDAY think?

Move To Amend has sent out an email The Group "End Citizens United" is Pulling Your Chain. The email says in part:
This shadowy "End Citizens United" group popped up on the scene just as the 2016 Presidential candidates are starting to declare their campaigns. This Super PAC claims to be working against Citizens United and putting an "End to Corporate Personhood" but a visit to their website says otherwise:
  • No suggested language as to what the amendment should say.
  • No suggestion that corporate personhood is the root problem.
  • No information or support for any of the myriad amendments already under consideration, including the We the People Amendment.
  • No information about who is behind their group.
  • No field operation to help organize people.
Just a petition (to collect names for their database), and a Donate button (to collect money for ??). 
They say they've already collected a million dollars. But what are they going to do with the money since they have no actual campaign against Citizens United?Our sources tell us they are a group of individuals who formed this PAC to raise funds for Democrats running for office in the upcoming election. Recently they updated their website with some information about this, but details on how this will help end corporate personhood are thin at best.

What does MAYDAY think? Should MAYDAY investigate and find out who the Democrats in question are who are running for office and what their bona fides are regarding reform?

Maybe MAYDAY has no resources for anything other than its effort to find 70 additional current members of Congress who are willing to support reform and has no resources for investigating at this time possible candidates to support in the 2016 elections.

Some consideration of the matter seems warranted.


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