[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: FW: The Supreme Court]

Wed Apr 2 22:59:43 PDT 2014

     Some of you may have seen this......same subject as what Agnes just
e-mailed......UGH - seems he 1% just get more brazen.....and why
not?.......
     have we ever handed out info flyers on FRI PM?  This might be a flyer
subject - this e-mail and picture of the robes....

Nancy

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Subject: FW: The Supreme Court
From:    "Freddie Long" <longfreddie at gmail.com>
Date:    Wed, April 2, 2014 8:37 pm
To:      "Freddie Long" <longfreddie at gmail.com>
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From: Becky Bond, CREDO Action [mailto:act at credoaction.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 12:01 PM
To: FREDDIE LONG
Subject: The Supreme Court

 CREDO action
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First Citizens United. Now this.

Petition language to Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, John Roberts,
Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Anthony Kennedy:
"The McCutcheon decision is yet another blow to our democratic process.
The corrosive and corrupting influence of campaign cash on our democracy
is obvious. Overturning Citizens United is the first step towards real
reform. Until then, hereâ€™s a robe for you to wear complete with
corporate logos so you can at least be forthright about whose side
youâ€™re really on."

Automatically add your name:

 <http://act.credoaction.com/go/3917?t=1&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ> Sign
the petition ?

Dear FREDDIE,

 <http://act.credoaction.com/go/3918?t=2&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ>
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/3918?t=2&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ> Supreme
Corporate "Justice" Antonin Scalia
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/3918?t=2&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ>

You and I might think we deserve a country where our elected officials
arenâ€™t bought and paid for. But apparently Antonin Scalia and four other
Supreme Court justices disagree.

Today, the United States Supreme Court dealt yet another staggering blow
to our democracy by giving the green light for the wealthiest Americans to
pour vast sums of money into electing their hand-picked candidates.

The is another step down the terrible path the Supreme Court set us on
with its Citizens United decision.

We think if the Supreme Court is going to consistently side with
corporations and the wealthy at the expense of our democracy, they might
as well give up their pretense to impartiality. So weâ€™re going to send
robes with the logos of the big corporations to the â€œjusticesâ€ who
voted for Citizens United and this new terrible decision.

 <http://act.credoaction.com/go/3917?t=3&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ> If you
want to add your name to the card we deliver along with the robes, click
here to automatically add your name.

In the Citizens United decision, the Supreme Court turned on the spigot to
unlimited sums of corporate cash to flood our electoral system.

Since then, CREDO has fought on all fronts to overturn Citizens United and
end corporate personhood, with over 500,000 CREDO members signing
petitions and making calls. And CREDO has donated over $1 million to other
allied groups who are working to expose the negative impacts of Citizens
United and working to overturn it.

In todayâ€™s case, McCutcheon vs. FEC, the Supreme Court decided that the
wealthiest Americans could give the maximum donation to as many federal
candidates, political committees and parties as they wanted. The
wealthiest donors tend to support candidates who will promote the
pro-corporate agenda that made them wealthy in the first place. And if we
donâ€™t turn back from this path soon, the U.S. will become a plutocracy
governed by the corporations, for the corporations.

The Citizens United decision is premised in part by a supposed lack of
evidence that campaign contributions can influence a legislatorâ€™s
behavior outside of a direct quid pro quo transaction. Just this spring,
CREDO participated in the release of a a randomized, scientific study run
by political scientists at Yale and UC Berkeley that empirically shows for
the first time whatâ€™s always been obvious -- that legislators give
preferential treatment to donors.1

The majority on the current Supreme Court look at corporations and see a
people entitled to First Amendment rights. They wonâ€™t even acknowledge
the appearance of corruption, let alone the presence of corruption, when
our election system is awash in campaign cash doled out by a small handful
of incredibly wealthy donors and corporations.

We know whose side Antonin Scalia and the Citizens United majority of the
court are on. So weâ€™re sending them a new set of robes.

Click here to automatically add your name to the card weâ€™ll deliver
along with the robes:

 <http://act.credoaction.com/go/3917?t=4&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ>
http://act.credoaction.com/go/3917?t=5&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ

Thank you for speaking out.

Becky Bond, Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/109?t=6&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ>

P.S. There are over 140 emergency rallies planned today across the
country. Click here to find one near you.
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/3921?t=7&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ>

Automatically add your name:

 <http://act.credoaction.com/go/3917?t=8&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ> Sign
the petition ?

Learn more about this campaign
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/3918?t=9&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ>

1. "A new experiment shows how money buys access to Congress
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/3920?t=10&akid=10334.6602212.PTL_uQ> ,"
Washington Post, March 11, 2014.

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