Marrying a corporation

“If a corporation is a person, they can get married, right?”

However ridiculous that statement sounds, corporate personhood was granted to Super PAC’s in 2010 through the controversial court case of Citizens United v. the Federal Election Committee.

Through this decision, corporations, unions and issue advocacy organizations may now spend unlimited amounts of money from their treasuries on independent political expenditures in support of or opposition to a candidate.

As a result obscene amounts of money are being dumped into political campaigns, and the voice of the people is being drowned in a sea of money.

Working with The Indiana Student Public Interest Research Group’s (INPIRG) Democracy campaign we are working to put a stop to this campaign spending.
Studies released by U.S. PIRG say that “more than 93% of the money Super PACs raised came in contributions of at least $10,000 – from just 3,318 donors.”

This figure shows that our voices are being drained away due to increased spending.

In order to fix this corruption we must act.

Let Citizens United and corporate personhood be topics of conversation.

This movement of the concerned people will rise; we just need to take that one small step and talk about it.

­— Alexander Grassi