Signed "COURAGE" from Alan Grayson. Asking for your signature.

Unlike you and me, corporations don't eat, drink, get married, vote, or bathe. And they never sleep. Which is why they have already launched another attack on our democracy, due to hit ground zero tomorrow, Wednesday, January 27, at 9:30 a.m.

Last week, it was the Citizens United case. That case not only permits unlimited campaign spending by huge multinational corporations, but it also says that any law to curb such spending is a violation of those corporations' "constitutional rights."

Now, it's the SpeechNow case. This new case would extend the newfound "rights" of multinational corporations to billionaires. Yes, the SpeechNow case would give billionaires the "constitutional right" to pollute political campaigns to any degree that they see fit.

We have to fight back. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear "arguments" on the SpeechNow case at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in Washington.

Let's show them what "freedom of speech" really means. We'll speak and, for a change, they'll listen.

http://salsa.mydccc.org/o/30019/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6&tag=012610_email_court">click here for petition

to send a message to the court and show your support for real free speech!

You can also call the clerk's office at 202-216-7300.

Over 90,000 of us have signed the petition at SaveDemocracy.net. Please -- PLEASE -- ask your friends to sign up, and keep watching for ways that we can save democracy.

Courage,

Alan Grayson
Member of Congress

I am not writing to "piss in the pool", but I think Grayson has conviction. Why does he need my lowly signature to get anything done when he appears to know what needs to be done?

The Clerk of Courts does not care about us, we are puny little pissants to them. Money is the New Speech and "volume" or the levels of your accepted speech are equal to the amount of money you are able to "do your talking with". We dont count anymore in this society, we are not PACs, we do not wield lobbyists. I've signed dozens of petitions that never do anything. I am becoming jaded and think that these petitions are being used as cover, as an excuse for not really doing anything. "I tried to pass ____, didnt you se/sigm my petition"

Congress is elected to REPRESENT US, when you run as a Democrat or Repuke, you run on a platform of ideas. The more liberal or conservative, the greater the extent of your ideas and thus the the extent of your actions.

Grayson knows what to do. The same that Kucinich knows what to do. The same as every Democrat whose petitions are pimped and pushed as a means of feeling like we are doing something while at the same time do nothing knows what to do. I know that Kucinich cant end all the wars and I also know that Grayson cannot save Democracy.

The only way that the People's Voices will ever be heard again in DC is through action. I am not advocating any form of action, today, but be sure that is the only way that we will ever be heard

and had hoped not ever having to do it any more I could scream.
You say you think you are a puny little pissant to them, then, I suppose it will be self fulfilling if you stay in the background.
You say "Action" is what is needed. A petition is action, or a pre-amble to it, where the petitioner is gathering support for the action.

But in general, I agree with you that their obligation is to represent us because we put them into office knowing what they stand for, and we insist they do their job.
I, too, am sick of holding feet to fire. I really am.
Sign it anyway!