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California seeks constitutional convention over Citizens United
http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-seeks-constitutional-convention-over-5579322.php
"There hasn't been a U.S. constitutional convention in 225 years, and it would take a daunting number of states, 34, to call another one.
That didn't deter Democratic legislators this week from making California the second state, after Vermont, to demand a nationwide gathering of delegates for a single purpose: to propose an amendment repealing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 decision that allowed unlimited corporate spending on political campaigns.
On a party-line vote of 23-11, with little debate, the state Senate on Monday approved AJR1, asking Congress to call a constitutional convention that would draft an amendment allowing limits on corporate campaign financing. The amendment would declare, among other things, that money is not speech and that corporations do not have the same scope of political rights as human beings.
"I doubt our founding fathers had the free-speech rights of multinational and foreign corporations in mind when they drafted the First Amendment," said Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, author of the resolution........"
"There hasn't been a U.S. constitutional convention in 225 years, and it would take a daunting number of states, 34, to call another one.
That didn't deter Democratic legislators this week from making California the second state, after Vermont, to demand a nationwide gathering of delegates for a single purpose: to propose an amendment repealing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 decision that allowed unlimited corporate spending on political campaigns.
On a party-line vote of 23-11, with little debate, the state Senate on Monday approved AJR1, asking Congress to call a constitutional convention that would draft an amendment allowing limits on corporate campaign financing. The amendment would declare, among other things, that money is not speech and that corporations do not have the same scope of political rights as human beings.
"I doubt our founding fathers had the free-speech rights of multinational and foreign corporations in mind when they drafted the First Amendment," said Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, author of the resolution........"
No it was not and I beleive that is an individual political problem.
DNC or RNC, this country was not founded on the idea that corporations should have the type of influence over our government that they now do,
I think there would be more pressing matters then big DNC donors.
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