Boulder council to take up 'corporate personhood' referendum

[Newsjock]

Source: Boulder Daily Camera

The Boulder City Council will decide whether to put a referendum on the November ballot that calls for amending the U.S. Constitution to abolish "corporate personhood" after all.

Despite being turned down for discussion during the council's May 17 meeting, Councilman Macon Cowles plans to ask the group to put the measure on the ballot during the leaders' meeting on July 19 -- when the council is planning to give initial approval to several potential ballot measures.

... Cowles, an attorney, wants Boulder's referendum to clarify that money is not constitutionally protected free speech and that corporations should not have all the rights that people do.

"The Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case undid a hundred years of precedent and electoral reform by unleashing corporate treasuries to spend as much as they want to influence the outcome of elections," Cowles wrote in an e-mail to the Camera on Tuesday. "... I believe that Boulder voters should speak to this issue."

Read more: http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_18323929

[UrbScotty]

1. My aunt lives near Denver. If they pass this, and if I go to see her anytime soon...

then I just might take a trip up US 36 to support their economy!

[kag]

23. And you would be most welcome!! n/t

[gtar100]

2. City by city; town by town

Let's take the legs right out from under them.

[OneGrassRoot]

5. Exactly. n/t

[Macoy]

9. End Corporate Personhood

If we ever want to take our nation back from the corporations, this will be how we do it. You can march and protest all you want, but nothing is going to stop the corporation with the BIG bag of money from telling our Congress critters how to vote.

Removing corporate “personhood” would be a great victory in the Second American Revolution.




Macoy

[midnight]

19. Yes....

[Corruption Winz]

3. What's the harm in corporations funding politicians? It's worked well so for....

For them, anyway.

[Sherman A1]

4. It's a start

may not go anywhere, but it's a start.

[Scuba]

6. Grass roots, baby. Poor people from Boulder (Ha!) fighting for all of us. n/t

[Enthusiast]

7. K&R

This is only an exercise in basic common sense. Too bad the Boulder City Council seem to be the only exception to the rule.

[Demeter]

8. And so, the third and final phase of the American Revolution Began

when, in a small city in the nation's heartland a bold group of citizens began the final transformation from a corporate colony to a free nation, governed by the rule of law, for the People, by the People, for the People....,

[JournalistKev87]

10. We can only hope.

I hope this gains some traction but I doubt it will go very far. Hope I'm wrong and it sparks something.

[Esse Quam Videri]

11. Love me some Boulder.

Unfortunately we live on the exact opposite side of Denver in Parker. The political spectrum here is also the polar opposite. Bleckkk!

[Slit Skirt]

15. if you want to fight Coffman in CD_6 may I introduce....

a facebook page that has activism
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_193568850669650&id=232900296736505#!/home.php?sk=group_193568850669650
These people are very active and looking for progressives just like you!

[certainot]

12. way to go boulder!

[bertman]

13. BRAVO! for Councilman Cowles!! I hope they vote on this soon. REC. nt

[sarchasm]

14. Bravo!

I support Boulder, CO!

[harun]

16. Awesome, we need more of this!

[kenichol]

17. Warms the cockle of my heart

to hear this

[Uncle Joe]

18. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Newsjock.

[SoapBox]

20. Every time I hear "Citizens United", my blood just boils.

Rise up America...we need to take back control.

[defendandprotect]

21. "Persons born in the US" --

[2banon]

22. outstanding... let us know how this goes,, thanks n/t

:thumbsup:

[No Elephants]

24. Y'all sure you want to open up the Constitution for amendment these days?

[gtar100]

27. Good point. Not with the current batch of clowns at the wheel in Congress.

[boppers]

25. Boulder should make employment discrimination based on dreadlocks illegal too!

...and while they're at it, end discrimination based on bathing habits!

It will go national super fast!

Didn't they also cancel the PATRIOT act, with their bold actions? And defund the Pentagon? And stop war in Iraq?

[skepticscott]

26. And will this resolution also advocate

stripping corporations and other organizations of their 4th amendment and freedom of the press rights? Have they even considered the implications of that?

Just wondering...