US Code clearly prohibits foreign money in US elections. Citizens United v FEC opened our elections to foreign money and influence through foreign investors who now hold over 40% of all shares in US corporations. The result has been precisely what our founders feared.
We need your help to pass AB 83: The Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act
Call your CA Assembly Member in support of AB 83
- Sign the Petition
- Read the Author's Fact Sheet about AB 83
- Read the MOVI Fact Sheet about AB 83
- Read the MOVI Talking Points about AB 83
- See the Sample Organizational Support Letter
- Read the Free Speech For People memo on AB 1819 (previous bill)
- Read US Election Law
- Written Testimony from Federal Election Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub for AB 1819 (previous bill)
- Written Testimony from Laurence H. Tribe (Harvard Law School) for AB 1819 (previous bill)
- Written Testimony from John C. Coates IV (Harvard Law School) for AB 1819 (previous bill)
- Rep. Raskin's Letter to the SEC about his federal version of this bill HR 6283
Want to know more about AB 83? Click here to request a speaker from MOVI at your organization's next online meeting.
ENDORSERS
Free Speech For People (co-sponsor)
Money Out Voters In (MOVI) (co-sponsor)
Center for American Progress (co-sponsor)
Indivisible CA: StateStrong (priority bill)
People For The American Way
RepresentUs
Stamp Stampede
WATCH LAST YEAR'S VIRTUAL TOWN HALL
Featuring:
- California Assembly Member Alex Lee (author of AB 1819)
- Congressman Jamie Raskin (author of HR 6283)
- Free Speech For People's President John Bonifaz
- Former Seattle City Council President Lorena Gonzalez
- San Jose City Council Member David Cohen (San Jose Motion Author)
- MOVI's Michele Sutter
