Lawrence Abbott


How I've supported Move to Amend

  • Organizing call to support Money Out of Politics July 27 actions

    Thank you for signing up to attend the national March for Integrity or to help organize a local action on Saturday, July 27!

    Please attend an information/planning/organizing meeting this Wednesday, July 16 at 4pm PT, 5pm MT, 6pm CT & 7pm ET

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    Move to Amend is one of scores of local, state and national groups working to build rallies and/or marches across the country. 

    The event will demand:

    • A Ban on Lobbyist Gifts – Prohibiting all direct or indirect financial incentives from lobbyists to members of Congress.
    • The End of Congressional Stock Trading – Preventing elected officials from using privileged information to personally benefit.
    • The Overturning of Citizens United – Eliminating unlimited corporate campaign contributions and restoring limits on political spending.
    • WE the People Amendment to Keep Money Out of Politics – Ensuring that future generations do not face the same corruption and undue influence in government.

    Your help is needed in a variety of ways – at the national action in DC or in your community.

    At the national event:

    • Help recruit others to attend the rally and march
    • Helping staff the information table at the rally on the national mall. The rally will take place on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Move to Amend Co-Director Greg Coleridge is one of the national speakers.
    • Help hold the Move to Amend banner and/or with other Move to Amenders during the march.

    In your community:

    • Help organize a local supportive event – rally, march, vigil – on the 27th
    • Where an event is already planned, attend and publicize via email and social media.

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    Contact Greg Coleridge at [email protected] if you have any questions.

    We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

    MOVE TO AMEND NATIONAL TEAM

    WHEN
    July 16, 2025 at 7:00pm
    WHERE
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  • signed CA letters to senate candidates 2024 2024-04-11 10:10:24 -0700

    Ask our California Senate Candidates to sponsor Senate Version HJR 54

    To get our We The People amendment passed, we need a Senate Companion Bill to HJR 54.

    Who better to ask than our California Senate Candidates.

     

     

    208 signatures

    Please add your signature below to the letters asking just that! Let’s show our support to keep our democracy intact.

    Click links to read the letters. 

    Senate Candidate Garvey Letter

    Senate Candidate Schiff Letter

     

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  • The Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act - Support AB 83

    Citizens United opened a loophole: Foreign governments, foreign businesses and foreign individuals can invest in U.S. corporations, and those corporations can spend unlimited amounts from their corporate treasuries on U.S. elections. 

    The clock is now ticking with less than a month to pass AB 83, The Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act out of the Assembly!

    AB 83, the Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act, (add your name below) closes the loophole that allows foreign money to pour into California campaigns, candidates, political parties, PACs, Super-PACS and ballot measures “indirectly", undermining our capacity for self-governance...

    3,362 signatures

    When the U.S. Supreme Court decided that corporations could spend unlimited amounts of money from their corporate treasuries in U.S. elections (Citizens United v FEC, 2010), they justified the decision by saying that U.S. corporations were “associations of citizens.”

    However, over 40% of all the shares held in US corporations are held by foreign investors, not U.S. citizens, living outside of the U.S. These corporations then spend millions in California elections, even though U.S. election law stipulates that no foreign money is allowed in U.S. elections, contributed either “directly or indirectly.”

    Citizens United opened a loophole: Foreign governments, foreign businesses and foreign individuals can invest in U.S. corporations, and those corporations can spend unlimited amounts from their corporate treasuries on U.S. elections.

     AB 83, the Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act, closes the loophole that allows foreign money to pour into California campaigns, candidates, political parties, PACs, Super-PACS and ballot measures “indirectly", undermining our capacity for self-governance.

    Earlier this year, Minnesota closed the loophole, prohibiting multinational corporations from spending money on state elections. We can do the same in California. Multinational influence is a threat to U.S. sovereignty and to our national security – international interests can easily, and often do, diverge from U.S. interests. There should not be any foreign money in our elections.

    Join us in support of AB 83 and urge the California Assembly to pass this legislation and close this loophole immediately.

     Sign now in support of AB 83, the Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act.

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Lawrence Abbott

Lawrence Abbott

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