PLEASE READ OUR MISSION
MAYBE THIS YEAR WE CAN GET WHAT THE PEOPLE HAVE ASKED FOR; MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM AND A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ALLOWING THAT REFORM
JUNE 6, 2019
NEW HAMPSHIRE BECAME THE 20th STATE TO SUPPORT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO GET BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS
HB504 PASSED THE NH HOUSE AND SENATE
In Carroll County; Albany, Conway, Eaton, Effingham, Wakefield, and Sandwich voted to join the people in 19 states and over 82 other New Hampshire towns that have already called on Congress for a constitutional amendment.
Thank you Dick Pollock (RIP), who began this effort in 2011, and with this small group, passed the first town resolution in Conway on April 9, 2013
THE EFFORT WILL NOT END HERE. WE MUST CONTINUE UNTIL THE CONGRESS ACTS TO PROPOSE A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
RESOLUTIONS WERE PASSED IN SIX
CARROLL COUNTY TOWNS
Six towns in Carroll County have been successful in passing resolutions at their town meetings (Conway in 2013; Eaton, Sandwich, and Wakefield in 2014, Albany and Effingham in 2016). They were joined by at least 82 additional towns around New Hampshire that passed similiar resolutions in 2014-16.
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By passing warrant articles, our six local towns joined with the people in 19 states and the District of Columbia that have already called on Congress for a constitutional amendment. Resolutions calling for an amendment are pending in the legislatures of many additional states. By passing these warrant article resolutions, they joined nearly 500 cities, towns and counties that have passed resolutions or ballot initiatives calling for a constitutional amendment. The combined population of governmental units that have called for an amendment is more than a quarter of the country.
Ask your representatives to uphold the will of the people.
WHAT'S NEXT?
As a local group in the Mount Washington Valley, we will continue our efforts to pass a Constitutional Amendment by persuading our representatives in the Congress of the United States to support and pass a proposed Constitutional Amendment resolution.
House Joint Resolution 48, the "We The People Amendment" is one of several proposed Constitutional Amendments currently being considered, and is virtually identical to the proposed amendments that were voted and passed in resolutions by 82 local New Hampshire towns.
ACTION!
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN, CHRIS PAPPAS,
AND TELL HIM TO SUPPORT AND CO-SPONSOR
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 48
Chris has said he "believes we need to get big money out of politics", but has co-sponsored a bill that only partially addresses the problem, and doesn't align with the resolutions passed by the towns in his district. Chris should get on board with his constituents.
The most effective method of influencing your representatives
is with a phone call to his local office. The number is: (603) 285-4300
Other methods to contact Chris are:
Washington office phone: (202) 225-5456
twitter: @RepChrisPappas
e-mail: pappasfornh@gmail.gov
Facebook: Congressman Chris Pappas
(www.facebook.com/RepChrisPappas/)
Letter:
660 Central Ave, Suite 101
Dover, NH 03820
IF YOU ARE NOT IN N.H. DISTRICT #1, CONTINUE TO CALL YOUR LEGISLATORS TO SUPPORT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (HJR-48)
The Myth Of Corporate Personhood
The vast majority of the American people disagree with the United State Supreme Court’s ruling in the infamous Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case. This decision poses a deep threat to our democracy. With this decision the Court afforded corporations free speech rights our Founders intended only for people! (link to --Corporations) It allows corporations to spend as much as they want to influence elections. (link to --$$$$Millions) Government "dependent on the people alone" (James Madison) has been replaced by dependence corruption: members of Congress depend on moneyed interests for campaign funding and corporations depend on Congress for special favors like tax loopholes and bailouts. (link to --Dependence)
Richard Clayton "Dick" Pollock
Dick Pollock passed away on Oct 17, 2016.
Dick led the effort in the Mount Washington Valley to pass resolutions in each town
directing our NH legislators to support a Constitutional amendment to:
(1) clarify that the rights granted by the Constitution of the United States are for people only, and (2) enable changes in state and national campaign financing laws, to ensure that our elected representatives are dependent on “the People alone.”
Dick was recognized with the 2015 Paul Wellstone Award and the 2016 Granney D Award.
Dick's leadership will be missed by all who knew him.
New Hampshire's own Doris "Granny D" Haddock was a political activist dedicated to campaign finance reform. From January 1, 1999 to February 29, 2000, then aged 88 to 90, she walked 3,200 miles from Pasadena, California to Washington, D.C. to advocate for "...independence from the corrupting bonds of big money in our election campaigns." [her words]
2019 EFFORT TO PASS TOWN RESOLUTIONS
An effort to pass resolutions in Carroll County New Hampshire towns continues for the 2019 Town meetings.
Albany and Effingham passed resolutions in March 2016!!!
We The People-MWV, support the efforts of The NH Rebellion and Open Democracy to bring awareness of the problems with campaign finance, and their proposal to ask every candidate for federal office one question during the 2020 election cycles.
"What specific reforms will you advance
to end the corrupting influence of money in politics?"
APRIL 2013
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
POLL
SHOWS THAT THE MAJORITY OF
NH RESIDENTS WANT MONEY
OUT OF POLITICS.
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