California Voters to Weigh-In on “Corporate Personhood”

by onepercenttakers · Published July 27, 2014 · Updated August 6, 2014

California's Democratic Governor Jerry Brown has permitted SB 1272, an advisory measure entitled the Overturn Citizens United Act, to appear on the state's November 2014 ballot. The measure not only calls upon Congress to "propose an amendment...to the United States Constitution" to overturn the infamous Citizens United decision and its progeny, but "to make clear that the rights protected by the United States Constitution are the rights of natural persons only." According to state Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), the author of SB 1272, the measure is intended to send "a message to Congress" that we "should not equate money with free speech and corporations are not people."
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California’s Democratic Governor Jerry Brown has permitted SB 1272, an advisory measure entitled the Overturn Citizens United Act, to appear on the state’s November 2014 ballot. The measure not only calls upon Congress to “propose an amendment…to the United States Constitution” to overturn the infamous Citizens United decision and its progeny, but “to make clear that the rights protected by the United States Constitution are the rights of natural persons only.” According to state Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), the author of SB 1272, the measure is intended to send “a message to Congress” that we “should not equate money with free speech and corporations are not people.”