Tomorrow night, the Pensacola Coffee Party and Northwest Florida Move to Amend will attend the Pensacola City Council meeting to speak out in favor of the council voting on a resolution that supports a constitutional amendment would reverse the United States Supreme Court’s 2010 “Citizens United†decision which made many then existing forms of campaign finance regulation unconstitutional.
The resolution states the following: “The Pensacola City Council urges the United States Congress and the President of the United States to work across party lines to propose a constitutional amendment that declares that money is not speech and corporations and other artificial entities or creations of state law do not have the same unalienable rights as human beings. Thereby Congress may once again be allowed to prohibit corporations, unions and individuals from making unlimited independent campaign expenditures. Copies of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of the United States; the Honorable Jeff Miller, the Honorable Marco Rubio, the Honorable Bill Nelson and the Honorable Rick Scott Governor of the State of Florida as well as the state legislative delegation representing the citizens of Pensacola, Florida.â€
On Monday’s Pensacola Speaks, Councilwoman Sherri Myers, who is sponsoring the resolution, discussed the importance of the issue.
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