Hillary Clinton's Koch Killing Plan To Get Rid Of Citizens United - PoliticusUSA

[Bill USA]

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/08/hillary-clinton-long-time-democracy-killing-nemesis-citizens-united.html

Citizens United has been going after Clintons since 1992 and now they’re going to feel the heat.

Hillary Clinton has a plan to go after the nefarious dark money that’s trying to buy elections and it goes beyond a Constitutional amendment. It’s fair to say that of anyone talking about Citizens United, no one has been on the receiving end of their nefarious lies like 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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Citizens United started by a conservative group that was lobbying against Hillary Clinton, so Clinton starts off saying it’s personal. Knowing that, her statement takes on a new edge.

“We have to end the flood of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting our elections, corrupting our political system, and drowning out the voices of too many everyday Americans. Our democracy should be about expanding the franchise, not charging an entrance fee,” Clinton said in a campaign statement. “It starts with overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and continues with structural reform to our campaign finance system so there’s real sunshine and increased participation.”

Details of Clinton’s plan were released by her campaign Tuesday and include:

[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #000000;"] Overturning Citizens United by appointing Supreme Court Justices who value the right to vote over the right of billionaires to buy elections, and by pushing for a Constitutional amendment to allow common sense rules to protect against undue influence from special interests and restore the role of average voters in elections.

· Ending Secret, Unaccountable Money in Politics by pushing for legislation to require public disclosure of significant political spending, and, until Congress acts, promoting SEC rulemaking requiring publicly traded companies to disclose all political spending to their shareholders and signing an Executive Order requiring federal government contractors to fully disclose all political spending.

· Amplifying the Voices of Everyday Americans by establishing a small donor matching system for presidential and congressional candidates that will incentivize small donors to participate in elections and candidates to spend more time engaging a broad, representative cross-section of constituents.

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[arcane1]

1. And how will she get a republican congress to pass it?

Anyone can "push" for legislation. This is just an empty promise. A unicorn.

[farleftlib]

2. Don't forget rainbows

and pie in the sky!

[840high]

4. She won't. Empty rhetoric.

[dem in texas]

5. Say What?

Unicorns? What about free college, free medical care, student loan forgiveness - are these also empty promises? Hillary's proposal for changing campaign finance to do away with dark money has a far better chance of passing that what Bernie has proposed.

[SheenaR]

3. Time the eff out

Overturning Citizens United by appointing Supreme Court Justices who value the right to vote over the right of billionaires to buy elections, and by pushing for a Constitutional amendment to allow common sense rules to protect against undue influence from special interests and restore the role of average voters in elections.

Bernie said this SAME thing weeks ago. And he was met on here and Twitter with attacks like "don't you know new Supreme Court appointees wouldn't be able to do that?"

Now they can if she appoints them?

This day has been completely backwards

[DonCoquixote]

6. What I would love to hear

I, Hillary Clinton, have a litmus test for anyone I nominate to the Supreme Court, one is "do you support Citizens United?" anyone who says yes gets their resume sent to the shredder."