This is good news in Minnesota!
Please let legislators who supported this effort know how much you appreciate their effort. We now have our Move to Amend legislation in the Minnesota House, HF 3650, and in our Minnesota Senate, SF2404! We have also picked up an important co-author in the Minnesota House, House Minority Leader, Representative Paul Thissen. Please continue to encourage your MN Senators, and Representatives, to continue their efforts to act on behalf of the will of the people of Minnesota! 70% to 90% of Minnesotans favor this effort! Thanks to all of you who have contacted your state senator and representative asking them to support the “We the People” bill. If you have not it is still important that each one hears from constituents that it is critical that this bill is passed.

Here is that legislation - House File 3650:
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF3650&version=latest&session=89&session_number=0&session_year=2015

To find out who your representative and senator are go to this link -http://www.gis.leg.mn/OpenLayers/districts/

This link also has their email address and phone number.
Samples letters and a fact sheet are on our webpage at: www.movetoamend.org/minnesota.
It is very important that we know how your senator and representative will vote on this bill. If she/he is not in favor of it, please let us know the reason for taking that position. Report your actions and results of your actions at:
 minnesota@movetoamend.org.

If your representative is Rep. Dehn, Rosenthal, Bernardy, or Thissen or your senator is Senator Marty, Carlson, Clausen, Jensen or Dahle, please thank them for sponsoring the bill.

Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries!

“We’re in danger of handing young people a situation that’s out of their control,” said James E. Hansen, the retired NASA climate scientist who led the new research. The findings were released Tuesday morning by a European science journal, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The basic claim of the paper is that by burning fossil fuels at a prodigious pace and pouring heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, humanity is about to provoke an abrupt climate shift. Living in Minnesota will be impacted as well.

Specifically, the authors believe that fresh water pouring into the oceans from melting land ice will set off a feedback loop that will cause parts of the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica to disintegrate rapidly. What do we know to be true about Global Climate Change? These answers will help:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/28/science/what-is-climate-change.html

Should we not be listening to our best scientists? They have been right about a lot of things...DDT, Ozone, gravity, light, Earth-Moon relationship, Earth-Sun relationship, germs, viruses, polio, eclipses, northern lights, sunspots, the number of hearts in a human, distance to planets and stars, airplanes, going to the moon, atoms, artificial limbs, computer technology, the relationship to smoking and cancer, etc. Or, should we be listening to those who profit from Global Climate Change, and those who have been manipulated by them?

The politician who eventually does get elected as president, and those who do get elected as your/our representatives, will have more of an impact on the lives of your/our children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews than they will on you or I. For those who have ben thinking of taking a break from FB, this may be a good time as it will only get worse for the next few months. So far, the impact of social media on our election process is not looking good! Unfortunately, advertising works. Test marketing works and most all of the media airtime has been purchased by those who want to influence how the average person votes. If they can convince a generation of citizens that smoking is not harmful to their health, that beverages, particularly water, is better wrapped in plastic, that human caused global climate change is not something our generation needs to deal with, than swinging an election is child's play!

WHICHEVER POLITICAL PARTY FIRST RECOGNIZES JUST HOW SOLIDLY THE PEOPLE ARE BEHIND UNDOING "CITIZENS UNITED", WILL DO JUST FINE! ANY POLITICAL PARTY CHOOSING TO IGNORE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, WILL DO SO AT THEIR PERIL!

FORGET THE CAUCUSES, FORGET THE PRIMARIES, THE KOCH BROTHERS HAVE SPOKEN! The Koch Brothers’, spending more for the 2016 election, more than both parties’ spending, have decided to narrow the field of candidates! No Democrats, and just three Republicans, are now your choices! They are speaking. They have spoken! Isn’t this “Money is the same as free speech” wonderful!

Hundreds of conservative donors recruited by the Kochs gathered over the weekend for three days of issue seminars, strategy sessions and mingling with rising elected officials. These donors represent the largest concentration of political money outside the party establishment, one that has achieved enormous power in Republican circles in recent years.

Now the Kochs’ network will embark on its largest drive ever to influence legislation and campaigns across the country, leveraging Republican control of Congress and the party’s dominance of state capitols to push for deregulation, tax cuts and smaller government. In 2012, the Kochs’ network spent just under $400 million, an astonishing sum at the time. The $889 million spending goal for 2016 would put it on track to spend as much as the campaigns of each party’s presidential nominee.

Senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas — took part in a candidate forum on economic issues. They were the only ones invited!

The Kochs are longtime opponents of campaign disclosure laws. Unlike the parties, their network is constructed chiefly of nonprofit groups that are not required to reveal donors. That makes it almost impossible to tell how much of the money is provided by the Kochs — among the wealthiest men in the country — and how much by other donors.

As the three senators addressed the audience of rich donors — effectively an audition for the 2016 primary — they dismissed a question about whether the wealthy had too much influence in politics. At times they seemed to be addressing an audience of two: the Kochs themselves, now among the country’s most influential conservative power brokers.

Mr. Cruz gave an impassioned defense of his hosts as job creators and the victims of unfair attacks by Democrats, while Mr. Rubio suggested that only liberals supported campaign finance restrictions, so as to empower what he said were their allies in Hollywood and the news media.

This Website shows the truth:

Ted Cruz says: #1.  “I will never get — nor do I want — money from the DC lobbyists”

is a flat out lie.  It is not a misstatement, it is a complete and total falsehood.

Point #2 : “After winning Iowa the Washington cartel is most certainly more determined than ever defeat me”.  Again, look at the truth:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/02/seriously-how-can-ted-cruz-supporters-defend-this/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/kochs-plan-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-campaign.html?_r=0

When someone asks: "What's the the big deal? This is a bid deal!

It helps explain why Cuban citizens have a healthier, and longer, lifespan than American citizens, and Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than America. This is true while the average American makes ten times more than the average Cuban ($30,000+ per year compared to $3,000- per year). Does this image help explain that incongruence? It does for me! Should anyone be making this kind of money off of American's health insurance? We must end Citizens United now! https://movetoamend.org

https://movetoamend.org

OUR "CORPORATE CITIZENS" ARE, AGAIN, SHOWING THEIR TRUE STRIPES!

This is all so "Over the top."! Despite the U.S.Federal Government's rescue-and hundreds of millions of dollars $$$$$$$ in tax breaks, over the last several decades, Johnson Controls said on Monday: "We are renouncing our U.S. corporate citizenship by selling ourselves to Tyco International, based in Ireland."  This was done solely to reduce it's tax bill even further than it has been, dropping an additional $150,000,000 in taxes that it, otherwise, would have paid! If any individual tried this type of a tax evasion/scheme, they would go to jail for most of the rest of their lives!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/business/dealbook/a-tidal-wave-of-corporate-migrants-seeking-tax-shelter.html?_r=0