Get Big Money Out of Politics

One person, one vote.

In a democracy, everyone should have  a voice — and our government should look out for all of us. But it doesn’t work that way. Instead, unlimited campaign spending allows corporations and the richest Americans to rig the system in their own favor and against the average voter.

Things have been this way since the Supreme Court decided, in the Citizens United case, that corporations are people, and that they can spend as much as they want on elections. That’s just wrong. Corporations are not people, and they shouldn’t get to buy our democracy.

It's up to us to restore our democracy's integrity.  

At this point, it’s clear that the only way to get big money out of politics is to amend the Constitution. Fair Share supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

We are working to give all Americans a voice in our democracy.

In the fall of 2012, Fair Share worked with CoPIRG to qualify and pass Amendment 65 in Colorado. Amendment 65 instructs Colorado’s congressional delegation to support a constitutional amendment that would end unlimited campaign contributions and declare that corporations are not people.

Fair Share organizers collected the lion’s share of the 182,000 signatures to qualify Amendment 65 for the ballot. Next we spoke to hundreds of thousands of Coloradans about the need to vote “Yes,” and distributed hundreds of thousands of leaflets about Citizens United in Colorado and across the county. Colorado voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 65 by a vote of 74 percent to 26 percent.

Colorado was the 10th state to pass a resolution demanding an end to unlimited corporate money in politics, along with over 500 of cities, towns and counties.