5-2-14 big money in politics

A local effort to take big money out of politics is starting the next phase in an effort to amend the U.S. constitution regarding election donations.  The group Move to Amend is starting a petition drive this month that will continue through June in an effort to gather enough signatures to put the question on the November ballot.  The constitutional amendment reads that inalienable rights belong to human beings and that money is not a form of protected free speech under the First Amendment and can be regulated in political campaigns.

The group held a forum at the Marian University Stayer Center Thursday night featuring the director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Mike McCabe.   McCabe says the movement has garnered bi-partisan citizen support across the state and country.  He says already more than 500 communities in 16 states have voted to support this constitutional amendment.