On Citizens United Anniversary, Campaign Reform is Brewing

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From the forthcoming documentary PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy's High Stakes - http://pay2play.tv


This anniversary of Citizens United, instead of ceding control to anonymous corporate credit lines, people across the country are taking a public stand to show that they’re not letting this go. If anything, the vocal resistance to the Citizens United decision has only grown over the past year as more people recognized the reckless misinformation fueling campaigns in 2010.

I sat down with Heather Meyer, the Los Angeles chair of the Coffee Party USA, whose national members were marking the Citizens United anniversary with over 150 events across the country, from demonstrations, to meetings with elected representatives, to educational events, to strategy meetings to affecting local policy. As Heather describes, the local efforts at affecting election reform prove to be the most positive, and set the trend for national officeholders to be less resistant.

It has been after high points of abuses that past landmark overhauls to campaign laws have been introduced, because the public straight up demanded it.

A year after judicial activism undermined our election laws built up by generations, the next generation of reform is already taking root.


http://pay2play.tv/2011/01/21/on-citizens-united-anniversary-reform-is-brewing/