Wall Street types are used to playing by their own rules. And now they’ve come up with a November ballot initiative that claims to be about “stopping special interests.” It actually gives special exemptions to giant corporate interests, billionaire businessmen, and secretive Super PACs. Prop. 32 would do nothing to fix what’s broken in Sacramento. Instead, it would give even more power to the wealthy and well-connected to influence elections, control government, and weaken our state’s middle class.
All our friends and family should know to vote “NO!” on Prop. 32 in November, the so-called “Stop Special Interest Money Now Act.”
Nothing influences politics more than big, “fat cat,” corporate money. To make sure we have a voice, we pool our money together by contributing to COPE. Corporations already outspend unions 15-to-1. Their money helps elect candidates whose platforms favor the “Wall Street” agenda, which goes directly against what workers are trying to win. If they succeed in silencing us altogether—which the so-called “Stop Special Interest Money Now Act” is trying to do—”Wall Street” candidates will continue to cut education funding, outsource our jobs, and roll back benefits.
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