“Senate Minerals committee voted within the hour on a 4 -1 ‘DO PASS’ for SJ008, ‘Free and Fair Elections’, to call on Congress to submit an Amendment to get dark money out of politics for ratification by the states! The resolution should go on general file in the morning with a possible vote on Senate floor next week.
HJ008, which calls on Congress [...]
“The Senate version of our new resolution, SJ008, has today been re-assigned to the Senate Minerals Committee. There is no longer any need to contact members of the Senate Corporations Committee. We have been in touch with members of the Senate Minerals Committee already, and it looks like we have a chance to get this passed. For that reason, we are asking that you do [...]
“This morning HJ008, which calls on Congress to propose the 28th Amendment, was assigned to the House Corporations, Elections and Local Government Committee. This afternoon, another resolution, coincidentally called SJ008, was introduced in the Senate with Sen. Jeff Wasserburger as prime sponsor and Sen. Chris Rothfuss as co-sponsor. SJ008 is identical to HJ008, so both resolutions will now proceed on separate tracks. The Legislative Service Office will step [...]
“Things continue to evolve quickly. After the defeat of SJ0002 in the Senate Minerals committee yesterday, a new resolution has now been introduced in the Wyoming House of Representatives.
SJ0002 failed to pass committee because several Senators who support the 28th Amendment were uncomfortable asking for a limited convention of states to propose that amendment pursuant to Article V of the U.S. [...]
From Ken:
“We have just learned that SJ002, the Free and Fair Elections resolution, has been assigned to Senate Minerals, Business & Economic Development committee, and that the committee has already scheduled it for a hearing at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 16.
The members of that committee are [...]
We announced at the end of November that we’d gathered 20,255 petition signatures. These signatures from currently registered Wyoming voters are part of a citizens’ initiative to formally call for a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution promoting free and fair elections.
Although the signatures demonstrate widespread voter support, the number of signatures did not meet the State’s threshold of 38,818 valid signatures [...]
In case you weren’t able to catch our live discussion panel with former Senator Al Simpson at Sheridan College, here is the video in full. As an added convenience this link skips ahead to 12:18 in the video which is when the panel actually [...]
We want to thank everyone who made the recent panel with former Senator Al Simpson, Ken Chestek, Chair of Wyoming Promise, and Rod Morrison (sitting in for Jeff Clements, President of American Promise) a huge success. If you missed the event, it was recorded and live streamed from our Facebook page, and you can find the April 24th, 2018 Read more...
We all know that corporations are not people. The story of how they came to be seen as “people” is pretty interesting, however.
Thanks to Adam Winkler for the interesting article. Click Read More, for the link.
