The number 28 stands for the soon to be 28th Amendment for the United States Constitution.
I am part of this nationwide volunteering group called
Wolf-PAC, where we call state representatives and tell them to pass a resolution to call for Article V* Convention for the new amendment to the constitution that "corporations are not people and they do not have the right to spend money to buy our politicians". So yeah, we are trying to overturn 2009's Citizen United v. FEC case, which gave corporations a personhood and turned their political campaign contribution into "free speech" (If money is free speech, then why I can't "talk" to prostitutes?)
Basically, the judicial branch of the government legalized bribery within the politic.
Once the Supreme Court made corporate money into free speech, they can buy any politicians as they want and make them listen to their demands, rather than the demands of the people. That's all I could summarize in one sentence, but I already over this last spring back at my high senior year when I was writing an editorial for the school news site and you can check it out
here.
This political action committee was founded by Cenk Uygur, the co-founder and the host of one of YouTube's largest news network The Young Turk. He announced the formation of Wolf PAC on October 2011 during the Occupy Wall Street rally.
The goal is to end corporate personhood and make all elections of this country publicly financed, by adding 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. However, the current state of the congress is too corrupt to the point they cannot function and fix themselves, so they all have no interest in making campaign finance reform what so ever. In fact, their billionaire donors to their political campaign told them not to make any restriction or changes within the current system, or else it will hurt their interest.
The only way gotta do is to make two third of the 50 states (that would make 34) to call for Article V convention for the new amendment to the constitution. To do this, by contacting local state legislatures to talk about the influence of money in politic in political process, and make them introduce a resolution to call for the convention. So far, California, Vermont, and Illinois just called for the convention this year, and soon New Jersey will the the fourth one to call for it as well. (Recently, the State Senate house of NJ passed the resolution, after constant pressures from their own people they represent).
This will going to be tough, because corporations already knew what we are doing and they once try to stop what we were doing that would hurt their interest. While the resolution was in the NJ committee, Americans for Prosperity, the political organization that's directly associated with Republican donors the Koch brothers, came forward and argued against Wolf-PAC's resolution. Why they didn't do this when Senator Tom Udall introduced the amendment bill that will overturn Citizen United? Because the congress is already overtaken by billionaires. Fortunately Wolf PAC won and it passed through the committee. The Young Turks covered what happened at the NJ committee so you can check the video out
here.
There are so many things Rex Sinquefeld (which I like to call him: Rex "Seinfeld") have done that diminish person's integrity, including this story of how he and his organization Grow Missouri to
bribed this local newspaper columnist to write story that would give positive image to them. Good thing is, he rejected it and later write a story of how it went through.
This country is no longer democratic anymore - it is a country that only ruled and represent the group of few people who wants to screw other people from below and take their profits away. This will be the biggest fight I will forget. I am not alone. I've met a lot of people, including some within University of Missouri and local activists in Columbia, who wants to bring back republic and restore democracy.
I can go on how McCutheon case from last spring affected this year's midterm election, but I got no time and energy for that; I would probably do it on other blog post someday.
So that's enough for today and I'll write more how this kind of political spending hurts our country.
Stay frosty.
*The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
