Wyoming Promise lobbies for 28th Amendment

Posted 7/4/18

LARAMIE – Volunteers for the cross-partisan group, Wyoming Promise were recognized nationally for their citizen leadership and for their efforts to get a citizen initiative on the ballot in Wyoming, according to a news release issued by Wyoming Promise on June 27.

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Wyoming Promise lobbies for 28th Amendment

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LARAMIE – Volunteers for the cross-partisan group, Wyoming Promise were recognized nationally for their citizen leadership and for their efforts to get a citizen initiative on the ballot in Wyoming, according to a news release issued by Wyoming Promise on June 27.
Wyoming Promise received the Citizen Leadership Award from American Promise, a national organization leading the charge for a 28th Amendment to help set reasonable spending limits in political elections.
Representatives of Wyoming Promise met with Wyoming’s congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., on June 25 to persuade the delegation to support a 28th Amendment that would reverse the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
Wyoming Promise Chair Ken Chestek, of Laramie, Vice-Chair Lynn Horton Morrison and petition circulator Rod Morrison, of Powell, urged the delegation to agree that excessive money in politics is a problem that needs to be solved and asked them to commit themselves to working on solving the problem with an amendment.

At the meeting, Sen. John Barrasso reported that he has been frequently asked about money in politics while campaigning throughout Wyoming this season.
The Wyoming Promise group feels that the Citizens United decision handed down in 2010 has virtually dismantled campaign finance reform passed in 2003 and has granted corporations, unions and Super PACs the same rights and protections as individual citizens when it comes to campaign finance.
Rod Morrison, who operates a farm outside of Powell, told the delegation, “Money is not speech. It is a megaphone. People with lots of money to amplify their voices can drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.”
Wyoming Promise seeks to make Wyoming the 20th state to call for a 28th Amendment defining that corporations and other entities are not people, that money is not speech, and to reverse the Citizens United decision.
A petition drive to gather 39,000 signatures is well underway in Wyoming. Signatures must be submitted to the secretary of state by the first week of November in order to get the initiative on the 2020 ballot.
For more information regarding the citizen initiative, to find out where to sign the petition and to sign up to volunteer, go to their website at www.WyomingPromise.org.