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@ryking: one answer to your question -> OWS could/should join forces with Larry Lessig’s Rootstrikers which calls for state-level constitutional amendments to reform the electoral system and rid it of special-interest $$.
A visual summary of their position:

ryking:

azspot:

Jim Morin

“End corporate bribery of our elected officials?” How? By passing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision, or going state by state pushing for the enactment of laws similar to Arizona’s “Clean Elections” law, which allows candidates to forgo campaigning for special interest dollars in favor of public funding?
Yeah OWS, we know what you stand for. Now how do you propose getting what you want?

@ryking: one answer to your question -> OWS could/should join forces with Larry Lessig’s Rootstrikers which calls for state-level constitutional amendments to reform the electoral system and rid it of special-interest $$.

A visual summary of their position:

ryking:

azspot:

Jim Morin

“End corporate bribery of our elected officials?” How? By passing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision, or going state by state pushing for the enactment of laws similar to Arizona’s “Clean Elections” law, which allows candidates to forgo campaigning for special interest dollars in favor of public funding?

Yeah OWS, we know what you stand for. Now how do you propose getting what you want?

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