I’m very proud to report that our local constitutional lawyer (and ally) John Bonifaz of Amherst helped file the lawsuit in Minnesota to disqualify Donald Trump from running for office under the rules of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision loosened campaign finance restrictions and allowed anonymous corporations, non-profits, labor unions, super PACs, anonymous “dark money” sources, and the ultra-rich to donate unlimited sums to politicians and campaigns.
The 28th Amendment will end the disastrous experiment in the theory that money is speech and corporations are people. It will stop the flood of special interest money and give Americans an equal right to participate and be represented as citizens in this republic.
The midterms loom, and we're all needed to get out the vote. We did it in 2018, 2020 and we CAN and MUST do it again in 2022!
We’ve talked for years about the lack of transparency in the MA Statehouse, how it is ranked in the bottom fourth of the nation, how it often takes a decade for laws with popular support to get passed. Our Statehouse suffers from many of the problems that David Pepper outlines, it just has a veneer of blue.
When Bob Dylan penned these words in 1963, they were a warning to accept progressive changes that were coming. Today, the same lyrics hold a warning for everyone who cares about American democracy.
