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Dear MoveOn member,
Late last week, Senate Republicans blocked the DISCLOSE act—a bill that would have stopped big business from secretly funneling money into elections through fly-by-night front groups.
11 of these Senators are up for reelection and this fall if we're going to take control of our democracy back from corporate interests we need show them that siding with their corporate backers instead of with the people has real consequences.
This bill was pretty modest. It wouldn't even have barred corporations from buying elections—it just would have told us when they did it, by requiring disclosure of corporate election spending.
The politicians who sided with BP and AIG to block it need to see immediate repercussions—so we're working over the weekend to make creative, hard-hitting ads telling their constituents how they voted, and if we can raise enough money to air them, we'll run them right away.
We need to raise $200,000 to turn up the heat and get these ads on the air.
That'll take 3 donations from Inwood—can you chip in $5? Just click here:
If the senators who blocked even the DISCLOSE Act get away with siding with big corporations, we'll never be able to pass the stronger reforms we need to truly fix our democracy. We've got to show them that if they won't expose corporations meddling in our elections, we'll expose them.
The DISCLOSE Act is the first step towards knowing who's buying our election, and we need to do much more—including getting Fair Elections, overturning Citizens United, and curbing the overwhelming influence of lobbyists in DC.
But the Republicans who blocked this first step don't want big changes made because they have the most to gain from allowing unlimited secret corporate spending in this election. Corporate interests will pay big bucks to keep their friends in office, especially if they can do it in secret so their political preferences don't risk angering their customers.
Corporate influence over a democracy is a plague that will prevent us from ever getting a just economy, a real energy policy, and an equal voice with our elected officials.
We're prepared to go the distance and fight for the changes we need to really tackle this problem. But the fight starts here: with holding Senators accountable who showed their true colors by standing with corporations this week.
We've got a whole plan ready to go if we can get the money to pay for it.
That'll take 3 donations from Inwood—can you chip in $5? Just click here:
Thanks for all you do.
–Ilyse, Robin, Laura, Milan and the rest of the team
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