by guest blogger Linda Baum
I am passing along
this good news. Now is the time to contact
Speaker Oliver (973-395-1166, aswoliver@njleg.org)
to ask her to put AR86 on the Assembly’s agenda for Oct. 18 and to call our
Assemblypersons to ask them to support the resolution. You can find contact information for your
Assemblypersons at: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/municipalities.asp
As always, thank you
for your activism.
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Your persistance did it - SR47
PASSED! This is the NJ Senate
Resolution that calls on Congress to get money out of politics by overturning
the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision with a Constitutional Amendment.
SR47 will now go to Washington
Our NJ Coalition for the Overturn of Citizens United has
grown and includes to date: The American Dream Movement of Cape May County,
Food and Water Watch, Free Speech For People, International Brotherhood of
Teamsters Local 877, New Jersey Common Cause, New Jersey American Federation of
Teachers, New Jersey Communications Workers of America, New Jersey Citizen
Action, MoveOn Councils (Mid-Jersey,Essex, Hudson), New Jersey Main Street
Alliance, New Jersey Public Interest Research Group, New Jersey Sierra Club,
New Jersey Work Environment Council, New Jersey Working Families Alliance,
People for the American Way, Public Citizen, United Steelworkers District 4,
Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey.
This Coalition has presented 17,000
NJ petitions to our NJ legislators, yours included, and reached out to all
their members. THIS IS PEOPLE POWER.
The sister resolution in the NJ Assembly (AR86) comes up for
a floor vote soon - probably Thurs. Oct. 18th.
We need to call/email Speaker Sheila Oliver (Dist.
34, (973) 395-1166, aswoliver@njleg.org) to ask her to put AR86 on the agenda
for Oct.18th. We need to contact our Assemblypersons (Republican and Democrat)
and remind them all that the majority of small businesses, registered
Republicans, Democrats, and Independents want money out of politics by
Constitutional Amendment. We need to write letters-to-the-editor calling
attention to SR47's passage and the pending passage of AR86.
Next, we will be passing all the local
resolutions-to-overturn that are in progress around NJ and working to get all
of our representatives in Congress on the record for the amendment process. Our
snow ball is rolling down hill, gathering momentum and scale as it goes. Ask
all the current candidates if they support this movement to give us government
of, by and for the people; not of, by and for the money.
Thank you again for your staying power!
Susannah Newman
Coordinator NJ for the Overturn of Citizens United
(609) 972-9192
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