ABOUT MOVI
Those of us who began MOVI met while working to pass a resolution through the Los Angeles City Council calling on the US Congress to draft and pass an amendment to the US Constitution to overturn the Citizens United v FEC ruling which we did successfully and unanimously in December of 2011.
In May 2013, with our partners Common Cause and CALPIRG, MOVI worked to place a Voter Instruction on the Los Angeles Municipal Ballot Measure, Proposition C, which asked LA voters:.
“Shall the Voters adopt a resolution that there should be limits on political campaign spending and that corporations should not have the constitutional rights of human beings and instruct California elected officials and legislative representatives to promote that policy through amendments to the United States Constitution?"
Propositions C passed with an overwhelming 76% of the vote.
MOVI’s first educational conference, A 28th Amendment? Legal Issues, Remedies, and Strategies took place at The UCLA School of Law in November of 2012. Participants included Marge Baker, Jeff Clements, Garrett Epps, Lisa Graves, Lawrence Lessig, Trevor Potter, Cenk Uygur and Adam Winkler.
MOVI produces the nationwide touring event: The 28th Amendment National Roadshow modelled after our first conference at UCLA.
MOVI was the sponsor of California’s SB 1272 The Overturn Citizens United Act which would have placed a Voter Instruction measure on the state’s November 2014 ballot asking:
“Shall the Congress of the United States propose, and the California legislature ratify, an amendment or amendments to the United States Constitution to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) 558 U.S. 310, and other applicable judicial precedents, to allow the full regulation or limitation of campaign contributions and spending, to ensure that all citizens, regardless of wealth, may express their views to one another, and to make clear that the rights protected by the United States Constitution are the rights of natural persons only?”
SB 1272 passed through the legislature and became law as Proposition 49, Money Out Voters In. Prop 49 was ordered removed from the ballot by the California Supreme Court on August 11, 2014, in an unprecedented temporary ruling in response to a petition by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer’s Association.
When the California Supreme Court ultimately ruled on SB 1272/ Prop 49 in January, 2016, they found that Prop 49 was always legitimate, but stunningly neglected to “reform the date” and place The Overturn Citizens United Act directly onto the November 2016 ballot.
When the California Supreme Court ultimately ruled on SB 1272/ Prop 49 in January, 2016, they found that Prop 49 was always legitimate, but stunningly neglected to “reform the date” and place The Overturn Citizens United Act directly onto the November 2016 ballot.
MOVI sponsored of The New Overturn Citizens United Act, SB 254, which successfully worked its way through the CA Legislature to appear as a voter instruction on the 2016 ballot as Prop 59, The Overturn Citizens United Act. It was passed by the voters of California.
In 2022, MOVI sponsored AB 1819 the Stop Foreign Influence In California Elections Act. AB 1819, was passed out of the notoriously campaign finance reform skeptical Assembly Elections Committee, but was denied a vote in the Appropriations Committee without explanation, even though the "appropriation" required to enforce the bill would be minimal.It died in the
Currently MOVI is sponsoring AB 83: The Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act
MOVI is a volunteer 501(c)(3) organization.
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