Colorado Fair Share
Many of the things we buy today just aren’t built to last. They break, they’re impossible to fix yourself, and the company that made them wants to charge an arm and a leg for a repair. The company tries to convince you that it’s better to just buy a new device — it’s less hassle.
Phones, laptops and even tractors built today are often full of parts and software that manufacturers don’t make available to independent repairers, so the company can keep a monopoly on repair. That forces many users whose devices just need minor repairs to trash them and spend hundreds of dollars on new ones.
Our democracy should give each of us a voice — and government should look out for all of us. But unlimited campaign spending allows corporations and the richest Americans to rig the system in their own favor and against the average voter.
That's why, in 2012, Colorado Fair Share helped qualify and then win Amendment 65, which put Colorado on record against big money in politics and the Citizens United decision, and directed our Congressional representatives to back action. It passed by a landslide with 74% of the vote.
Things are this way since the Supreme Court decided, in the Citizens United case, that corporations are people, and that they and the wealthy 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.
