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Dustlawyer

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1. K&R!!! Please add to the fight, Publicly Funded Elections! If we don't slam the door and lock it,
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 06:59 PM
Jul 2014

they will find a way in again!

K&R!!! Please add to the fight, Publicly Funded Elections! If we don't slam the door and lock it, Dustlawyer Jul 2014 #1
Absolutely, nothing matters more...because EVERYTHING is dependent on who is mother earth Jul 2014 #3
Only a naive fool, or Xtian Fundy, would want that. longship Jul 2014 #2
Strongly disagree with you, longship. Apparently most of America, including Cenk, including just mother earth Jul 2014 #4
I stand by my post. longship Jul 2014 #5
It's not about me now is it? I strongly disagree with you, but understand your misgivings. mother earth Jul 2014 #6
I understand their position longship Jul 2014 #7
longship, I know people like you and I would fight like hell to make damned sure the only amendment mother earth Jul 2014 #8
But an Article V convention opens the floodgates. longship Jul 2014 #9
I respect and understand your opinion, but it is the ONLY hope of tackling campaign finance & mother earth Jul 2014 #10
Not with an Article V Convention. longship Jul 2014 #11
HOW do you think everything has gotten to this current condition? mother earth Jul 2014 #12
Normal amendment process through Congress. longship Jul 2014 #13
Nothing is more risky than allowing mother earth Jul 2014 #15
Then the convention process would be that much risky. longship Jul 2014 #16
No thanks, if and when it comes to my state, I know how I'll vote & it will be with CA & VT. mother earth Jul 2014 #18
You don't understand. You don't get a vote. longship Jul 2014 #20
The process is clarified below, interestingly Harry Reid agrees & so do other dems, mother earth Jul 2014 #23
In a Constitutional Convention you don't get to choose. longship Jul 2014 #24
If you listen to Lessig below he explains the difference btwn con. conv. & Article V, being an mother earth Jul 2014 #34
The slim GOP advantage that state legislatures hold is nowhere near PotatoChip Jul 2014 #36
And I would point out to you that they failed. zeemike Jul 2014 #14
But the convention would be state delegations, not congress. longship Jul 2014 #17
So you mean to tell me that 2/3 of them are right wing republicans? zeemike Jul 2014 #26
Well, Michigan is damned Red. longship Jul 2014 #27
Oh my is it ever. Very strange. navarth Jul 2014 #39
I support a Constitutional amendment saying that corporations are not people and they do not have mother earth Jul 2014 #19
more: Vermont Becomes The First State To Pass Wolf PAC Resolution mother earth Jul 2014 #21
This is how it works. mother earth Jul 2014 #22
To avoid confusion, here's Article V. longship Jul 2014 #25
Well if what you fear is real then we are lost. zeemike Jul 2014 #28
My worry is not about the fear amendments. longship Jul 2014 #29
And that fear grantees that nothing will change. zeemike Jul 2014 #35
zeemike I don't disagree with anything you're saying navarth Jul 2014 #40
No I understand...I once lived in Alabama. zeemike Jul 2014 #41
This from Public Citizen: mother earth Jul 2014 #30
Lawrence Lessig, Rachel Maddow discuss America's broken campaign system & constitutional convention mother earth Jul 2014 #31
K&R ReRe Jul 2014 #32
Difference between constitutional convention & article V convention explained (runaway myth) mother earth Jul 2014 #33
The Koch Bros. are at work while we do nothing, things can get worst & they will if we don't act. mother earth Jul 2014 #37
K &R Please watch the videos. nt bonniebgood Jul 2014 #38
K&R. Bookmarked till after work later. Populist_Prole Jul 2014 #42
Kick And Recommend cantbeserious Jul 2014 #43
Kicking...nt mother earth Jul 2014 #44
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