On Tuesday night, the City Council voted unanimously to approve the first reading of a ballot question that would protest the Citizens United decision last year by the U.S. Supreme Court.
That decision removed the government’s ability to limit “independent expenditures” from companies to advocate on behalf of a candidate or issue. A corporation can also now establish a political action committee and make unlimited corporate contributions to that committee.
The national group called Move to Amend is trying to pass a constitutional amendment saying that corporations are not people and money is not speech.
The Boulder City Council approved language that would recommend a constitutional amendment abolishing the rights of corporations to be protected as “persons.”
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