Thank you to everyone who wrote letters, sent emails, and made phone calls, to legislators. House File 276 is now one step closer to reality. The great news is that HF276 passed in the Civil Law Committee, on Wednesday, and will be moving to the full house later in the session. We have one more hurdle to jump. It will help if you will contract your House of Representative and thank them for their support when HF276 comes up for a vote. Many have committed to support this. Dozens have agreed/wanted to be co-authors of this historic legislation but we still need the help of the following 6 Minnesota Representatives to keep the legislation “clean”, identical to the SF 17 that passed the Minnesota Senate last session:

Kurt Daudt - 651-296-5364
David Dill - 651-296-2190
Ron Erhardt - 651-296-4363
Ben Lien - 651-296-5515
Gene Pelowski - 651-296-8637
Jeanne Poppe - 651-296-4193
Dean Urdahl - 651-296-4344

The above Representatives may very well be supporting HF276, when it comes up for a vote, but I/we have not heard of a solid commitment from these legislators. We need their help to make Minnesota the 17th state to pass legislation, since last fall, to reverse the impact of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, with the Orwellian title “Citizens United”. That 2010 decision left the words in our United States Constitution intact but changed the definition of two very important words “speech” and “people” such than now mega-world corporations are granted the same rights as a person (Corporate Personhood) and their money is now the same as our free speech. Corporations are not a person and money is not speech!

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead