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senator for former senator and used all the title senator russ feingold on the
line with us from the great state of wisconsin senator welcome
it'd be a national for inviting me
well thanks for showing up last time i saw you were both speaking in madison
theophylline bob fest
mitotic event
he wants to be even bigger this year prone fingered auto countrymen by his
about his fighting bob that's going on right now in madison assistants wrote an
article about best in the winter you betcha tell it tell us about the
organization that you have founded
but you know they are citizens united decision was
such an outrageous attack and the people of this country the the notion that
corporations should be able to use dirt retreat are money won't buy gasoline or
toothpaste to just do whatever they want to capture the political process
and so this is a great opportunity to respond so we are calling this
grassroots organization progressives should it's actually people not
corporations
we're coming to gether frankly in overwhelming numbers yesterday when we
just announced it everything from face book through the emails to the
contribution he was
it was powerful to know that there is a huge hunger out there for progressives
to organize to fight that the corporate dominance that is that adam early a high
point high point i think that over a hundred years
and so this is grassroots organization that's been a
who petitioned it's kind of support candidates we think we help what's going
to put pressure on officeholders to to do reforms into conduct themselves in a
way that will help us overturn
ut this horrible decision of the united states supreme court
we also want to illegally focus on the policies of the company so his beauty
use of corporate
uh... influence to try to destroy the rights of working people which is what's
going on i was caps right now
as the guy who wrote
the only
book about citizens united start there right now it's a bestseller
unequal protection
which grew
that charts from
marberry versus messengers southern pacific southern pacific railroad versus
santa clara santa clara county all the way through citizens united
'em un real real familiar with is topic i mean my my book is even used in
someone schools
it is
in fact in the first addition which i run two thousand two predicted citizens
united we just came out with a second edition
that uh... you know has the whole all citizens united case laid out in it
it seems to me that what we need here is a constitutional
amendment
we think the chances are
to say not only people a little bit
acrylic chances of getting something like that are
are very difficult what is far more doable histo bertrand of this error
you just need to get one boat
changed i realize that in the hands of other forced but yeah
i think we need to be ready for that
whether there is a ticket they concede during this term of president obama
hopefully a second term
the quickest and most expected waited to stop dismissed overturn
that discharge usc right and that's why the republicans are working so hard to
make sure that obama doesn't get reelected because yet
you've got a couple of conservative justices their seventies who probably
won't be retiring the next two years but probably will make sex
that sister and that's why i understand i think i think they're pretty open
procrastinate on them and you know i have real misgivings about
change in the bill of rights for the first time in history of our country but
i think the infinity it in the conversation about that and i think it's
helpful
muslim isabella rights only have a long list of people
plus a look
what they're different idea about what do
but we need to all work together to culture this and so i encourage people
to him
to bring that subject up an organizer on that my preference is to simply figure
out a way to overturn this decision
citizens united dot org o_ i've already signed up for your newsletter and or for
your site two years of united press is the press is spent the entire consider
this part of the other get st dot the
by the way i'm not going for constitutional dimension if any of our
most a catalog article tinkering with the constitution the fourteenth
amendment
says no person shall be denied equal protection of law
starting in eighteen eighty six the supreme court interpreted that word
person to include corporations
the only changed that would be necessary
would be the fourteenth amendment
which was written
and way was ratified in eighteen sixty eight is a recall to free the slaves to
insert the word natural before the word person
and that would put up an interesting approach stairway that different than
the correct
sort of attempt change a first amendment which is often the approach which is
because that doesn't challenge corporate power if you if you go to the fourteenth
amendment he put the word natural before the word person
then corporations can no longer as dow chemical has claimed the for the
memorize privacy so the e_p_a_ can no longer do unannounced researchers
ivy can no longer claims that the memorandum self-incrimination crack
recesses companies used they can't use that walmart can't use the fourteenth
amendment itself to say that citizens keeping them out of the community is the
same thing as heating black people looking out of a lunch counter
so that's spent on areas comparison promise and i'm i'm going to be said to
learn more about that
what do you want to send a copy of my book
uh... so if you enjoy it
you know i a cute remark at law school marquette university law school of law
occupied i'd like to have that look at my office i will i will get its ian
factor will lead you into dad receipts at the title is a nickel protection
we're talking the center of former senator russ feingold russ feingold once
again the organization is people can sign up for
progresses united battle or progresses united
or progressives united dot org in this is a very they national movement
to take back
our democracy
room from your own from these
design corporate how can individuals how can people help
with your organization beyond just signing of a progressive janet dot org
well-appointed take suggestions from people but what issues they want to get
out
art in terms of the flooding offices with emails campaigning for the emails
context for much of every time
we're going to have petitioned we're going to have
programs that relate to trying to get a particular piece of legislation passages
disclosed act which is a
obviously a minor
step in the right direction that helps us organize for the larger effort to
seize the fires disclosure
at the court lobby of say
foolish doing that help us organ to this organizations and uh...
fine if we have a very open
attitude about what different dishes we should be pushing harder for him to
testify at the same but not just spinoff of coffee seem to be done because of the
that's great we had a level of service dot in this era signed all fans
progresses united dot org and over there and so i think you sir for being with us
of the great work is done