Consitutionqal amendment bills in OR legislature

[Kirk Leonard]

Hi everyone,

I haven't posted here in a long time, but a cause that Occupy supports has a
bill in the legislature and is organizing to get it passed leads me send
this. I think you will appreciate knowing about it.

A group of Move to Amend affiliates, Common Cause Oregon, Main Street
Alliance Oregon, Alliance for Democracy, We the People Eugene, and others
have been working together to send a resolution to Congress (called a
memorial in Oregon, joint means both houses of the legislature) on money as
speech and corporations as people needing to be dealt with by passing a
constitutional amendment ending both, Supreme Court-established,
un-consitutional and anti-democratic doctrines ("judge-made law").

Let me shutup and convey what I've just sent with this news to the state
MTA+ coalition.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Leonard" <kirk...@spiritone.com>
To: "MTA Oregon" <mta-o...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:10 PM
Subject: We have a bill!


> Hi all,
>
> There are three Joint Memorials for a constitutional amendment in the
> legislature (so far): SJM 3, HJM 5, and HJM 6, links below. Ours is #6,
> strangely titled but best one, clearly:). The reason at the moment for my
> enthusiasm is learning today that about 1,700 legislative concepts --
> pre-filed bills -- didn't make the cut, only 700 made it to being a bill.
>
> The Senate memorial and other house memorial, as we suspected, are only
> about money in elections. All the co-sponsors is interesting. I recommend
> looking at each of them. We have some persuading to do....
>
> If you haven't signed up to be in the loop on this campaign or to visit
> with
> your legislator (in Salem or locally), please do that now, at:
> http://www.oregonrestoresdemocracy.org/. It's up to us to make this
> happen,
> so please step up. You can also see our bill there, when it was just a
> legislative concept, with a much better title.
>
> Here are the memorials on the Oregon legislative docket now.
>
> SJM 3:
> http://landru.leg.state.or.us/13reg/measpdf/sjm1.dir/sjm0003.intro.pdf
>
> HJM 5:
> http://landru.leg.state.or.us/13reg/measpdf/hjm1.dir/hjm0005.intro.pdf
>
> HJM 6 (yaay!):
> http://landru.leg.state.or.us/13reg/measpdf/hjm1.dir/hjm0006.intro.pdf
>
> It's happening now, folks. Let's do all we can to make it real. We need
> all
> hands on deck!
>
> Kirk
>