Tell your state legislators: corporations are NOT people!

At the Transparent Election Initiative, our aim is to get dark money out of politics for good and make Citizens United irrelevant. Constitutionally, states can pass laws to limit corporate powers, including making political contributions. This is how we’re getting that done.

Here is the language that we’re getting on Montana ballots this fall:

“[This initiative] would amend Article XIII of the Montana Constitution to redefine the powers of artificial ‘persons,’ including corporations. It defines their powers as only those the constitution expressly grants and provides that artificial persons have no power to spend money or anything of value on elections or ballot issues. It affirms that the people of Montana never intended for artificial persons to have the power to spend on elections or ballot issues. [This initiative] provides that actions beyond those expressly granted powers are void. The initiative permits political committees to be granted the power to spend on elections and ballot issues. It allows enforcement through forfeiture of state-conferred privileges. The initiative includes a clause that ensures that valid portions of the initiative remain effective even if other parts are invalidated.”

It boils down to this: corporations are NOT people!

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