Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, aka Ben & Jerry, say, Let's Get the Dough Out of Politics!

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Note: This email had many photos of Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield that did not reproduce in the copy and paste. Sorry.

Let's get the dough out of politics!
Ben & Jerry
7/14/15
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To: merrily
info@berniesanders.com
Bernie Sanders for President


Hi, I'm Ben. Ben Cohen

And I'm Jerry. Jerry Greenfield

I'm a person. Ben Cohen

And I'm a person. Jerry Greenfield


And together, we came up with a company called Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc.

That's a corporation.

Ben, person. Jerry... person

Ben Cohen Person

Jerry Greenfield Person

Ben & Jerry's, not a person... that's a corporation.

They're different.

But there's this problem. The Supreme Court decided that corporations are people, and that they're entitled to the same rights as people are. It's called "corporate personhood."


That's ridiculous. And what it means is that this presidential election, there will be a whole mess of shadowy money and corporate contributions backing candidates and causes on both sides of the aisle.

Except for Bernie Sanders, of course. Bernie has led the fight to put an end to the corrupting influence of big money in our politics.

From the very beginning, Bernie's called for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United -- something with which we couldn't agree more. Jerry Greenfield Jerry
Ben

Sign Bernie Sanders' petition calling for a constitutional amendment to reverse the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision. Ben Cohen

People thought we were crazy when we started putting dough into our ice cream.

But what's really crazy is all the dough corporations are putting into politics.

This issue is so important because all of the money it introduces into the political process influences almost every issue Congress considers.

Join us and sign Bernie Sanders' campaign to overturn Citizens United.

Thanks for joining us in this important effort!

- Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield -

Paid for by Bernie 2016

(not the billionaires)

PO Box 905 - Burlington VT 05402 United States - (855) 4-BERNIE

Full disclosure. I don't think Citizens will make it out of Congress. (2/3 vote of each house), let alone get ratified by 3/4 of the states. However, I am "signing" the online petition anyway.