President Obama: Issue an Executive Order to Fight Money in Politics

Dear MoveOn member,

I'm Glenn Simpson from the organization Public Citizen and I started a petition to President Barack Obama, which says:

Take a bite out of Citizens United by issuing an executive order requiring federal contractors to disclose their political spending. The American people have the right to know what corporations with lucrative, taxpayer-funded government contracts are spending to influence elections.

President Obama was right in his State of the Union address: The secret billionaire and big business "dark money"enabled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United ruling is pulling "our politics into the gutter."

And he can do something about it right now by issuing an executive order requiring government contractors to disclose their political spending. He doesn't even need agreement from the Boehner-McConnell Congress.

That way, We the People will know which corporations are spending how much either backing politicians who may help them get lucrative government business that our tax dollars pay for or attacking politicians who do not.

While we continue building nationwide grassroots momentum for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and working on other remedies to the plague of money in politics, we need President Obama to take this one simple step right now that will at least shed light on the political influence of corporations that get taxpayer-funded business from the federal government.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Glenn

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