Ben & Jerry's Co-Founder Stamps Money Out Of Politics In Sarasota
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen greeted Sarasota visitors with his Amend-O-Matic StampMobile Friday night.
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen arrived in St. Armands Friday to put his own stamp on the American political system. Cohen came with his Amend-O-Matic StampMobile that's a bit of a Rube Goldberg machine, sending dollar bills through a contraption, stamping them with messages to help influence people to ask their lawmakers to overturn the Citizens United decision, giving corporations the power to donate endlessly to political campaigns and political action committees. "Stamp Stampede is part of the larger movement to pass a Constitutional Amendment that corporations are not people, and money is not speech," Cohen told Patch inside the St. Armands Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Scoop Shop. Cohen is in the midst of an extensive road tour with the…
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Charlesworth Longtooth III
3:02 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
If you study the Citizens United decision, you will see that those donors no longer have to be listed. Citizens United allows foreign investment into our political system and turns it into a buy-a-vote system. Whats to prevent future candidates from providing "free-speech" payments directly to the electorate in return for votes? Nothing. I'd say that is a slightly bigger problem than defacing … more ›