Boulder Passes Anti-Corporate Personhood Referendum
November 2, 2011 at 9:19 AM Leave a comment
Well, the votes are in and as of last night, my town, Boulder, Colorado, passed — by a “wide margin” — a referendum rejecting the notion that corporations are people.
A Boulder measure that counters the idea that corporations and unions have the same First Amendment rights as individuals — a concept referred to as “corporate personhood” — scored an easy win Tuesday night.
Question 2H, which pushes for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would guarantee that only people are entitled to constitutional rights, won the vote by a nearly 3-to-1 margin. According to the final 12:55 a.m. tally, 18,392 voted in favor and 6,556 voted against.
The non-binding measure also favors limits to campaign donations and expenditures by enshrining in the Constitution the idea that money does not equal speech.
Bravo! I am so proud to live in a town that has, at least figuratively, rejected this anti-democratic, cockamamie notion.
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