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Editor,
On the 100th anniversary of Montana women’s right to vote, everyone’s right to vote is at stake in the 2014 election. Few Montanans can compete with $10,000 to $425,000 donations.
Daily, corporate fundraisers are the newest fad in Washington, D.C., thanks to fewer anti-corruption rules. Only 28 percent of Ryan Zinke’s donations and 33 percent of Steve Daine’s donations come from Montanans compared to 70 percent of John Lewis’s funds. Zinke’s recent fundraiser cost $10,000/couple with John Boehner who leads the most unpopular U.S. Congress ever, with only a 10 percent approval rating. Steve Daines collected $425,000 from a Wall Street billionaire and vulture capitalists who profit from failure.
Your vote is extremely important in 2014.
In 2012, the conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justices, many whom were nominated with a religious promise to strike down a woman’s right to vote on her own reproduction, struck down Montana’s 1912 Corrupt Practices Act, now diminishing all US citizens’ right to vote in elections.
As a result, in 2012, 75 percent of Montanans voted for a referendum directing Montana’s two U.S. Senators and one U.S. Congressman to create a U.S. Constitutional Amendment to stop unlimited corporate money from buying elections, echoing our 1912 law. In September 2014, Republican U.S. Senators blocked this bill.
Can you afford to buy politicians?
To preserve the power of the vote, vote for intelligent, 35 year old, math teacher Amanda Curtis to be Montana’s first female U.S. Senator. Stop voting for the most unpopular U.S. Congress ever, vote for John Lewis for U.S. House.
Jackie Gysler
Yellow Bay
