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I signed your petition to amend the Constitution so that "No corporation shall be considered to be a person who is permitted to raise or spend money on federal, state, or local elections of any kind." But I'm totally skeptical that this is anything but empty grandstanding on your part. First, to get an amendment passed you need 2/3 votes from both houses of Congress. With a few honorable exceptions, our Congress represents these self-same corporations. I agree with Nader that we've got a corporate party with 2 heads. How the hell do you think this amendment could get past the Senator from Aetna and the Congressman from Exxon? I doubt you do. Second, what a wishy-washy half-baked amendment anyway. Why not 2 amendments, one saying that money is not equal to speech, the other ending the obscene precedent that corporations are persons before the law?