Readers React: With Citizens United vote, California could send a message on money in politics
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To the editor: I strongly disagree with your editorial opposing the placement of a voter advisory initiative regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision on California’s November ballot. (“Jerry Brown should veto California’s misleading ‘Citizens United’ referendum,” editorial, May 28)
The editorial labeled the decision as “wrongheaded.” As a progressive state that accounts for at least 12% of the U.S. population that has taken the lead on so many important issues, we owe it to the nation to express the majority’s opinion on unlimited corporate spending in elections.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s view that we should not be “cluttering our ballots with nonbinding measures” ignores the importance of the people being heard on one of the most controversial and divisive decisions ever handed down by the Supreme Court. A landslide vote against Citizens United would send a powerful message and start a national conversation.
Joe Grauman, Culver City
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