Move to Amend Los Angeles
Date Established:
March 2011
The local Move to Amend affiliate for Los Angeles, California.
Announcements
Move To Amend Los Angeles needs your help!
October 28, 2011
At 2 PM next Wednesday, November 2, 2011, a resolution is coming before the Intergovernmental Relations Committee of the Los Angeles City Council.
Press Coverage
Santa Monica City Council Challenges Election Contributions
April 2, 2012
Santa Monica Mirror
Corporations will continue to argue they are extensions of people and are therefore entitled to similar legal protections, but the City of Santa Monica resolved at City Council’s Tuesday meeting to limit the rights of big business in public campaigns.
The resolution now pits Santa Monica in a larger campaign against the Supreme Court, which in 2010, ruled corporations were not to be limited in the amount of money they expend in public elections.
The 6-0 vote by the council members means that City Hall is taking a stand on how much corporate money influences an election.
Corporate Campaign Fundraising Picks Up Speed
August 11, 2010
Los Angeles Times
In an August 2 Los Angeles Times story, writer Tom Hamburger from the Times Washington Bureau reports that business and conservative groups are preparing to spend significant sums of money to defeat Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. Recent rulings by the Supreme Court allow unlimited spending by corporations and unions for some electioneering activities.