Lucas,
Elections should be about the voters, but the Supreme Court has turned our elections into something else entirely.
Billionaires and wealthy special interests now dominate the conversation
– drowning out the voices of the American people with huge piles
of anonymous dark money. That's not how our democracy is supposed to work.
President Obama is taking steps to require corporations to tell us what they spend on politics. It’s a reasonable step in the right direction.
Everyone is for transparency, right?
Wrong. In fact, Republicans in Congress are doing everything they can behind closed doors to keep corporate political spending in the dark. They recently slipped a provision into a financial services bill that would actually prohibit the IRS from developing rules to unmask the dark money. It was approved by the House Appropriations Committee and could make it to the floor for a final vote any day.
They thought they could get away with it. They thought nobody would notice -- but we’re calling them out. Sign the Petition: tell Congress to let President Obama unmask the dark money!
Thank you!
Xavier