OH-Sen: Sherrod Brown (D) Refuses To Stop Fighting For Real Campaign Finance Reform

Imagine a country where dark money groups, fueled by unlimited money and mega-rich donors, control everything. Visualize these groups spending tens of millions of dollars to get candidates elected at many levels all over the country. Then think of those same groups calling in all those favors from elected officials. What would happen? Special interest groups, the super wealthy, and huge corporations get everything they want and the people who need help get ignored. This isn't just a scary story. Since the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, this is the reality of American politics and it is truly terrifying. In my last election, special interests spent more than $40 million against me and propping up my opponent. One group active in Ohio right now has "no public filings on how much Citizens for Trump has collected or how that money has been spent — a lack of disclosure that one campaign finance attorney called “shady” and that even one ally concedes is improper." Until we put a stop to the flood of outside cash in our elections, special interest groups will have an outsized impact on who gets elected. The Halls of Congress will continue being filled with special interest puppets. And the middle-class families with no expensive lobbyists or fusillade of negative ads to influence elections? They will fade more and more into the background. We need to shine a huge light into every crack and crevice of our campaign finance system -- and we need to start by ending Citizens United. The more voices we have speaking up, the stronger we are. Dark money groups may have millions of dollars to spend, but we have something more important: Thousands and thousands of grassroots supporters willing to work toward the same goal. Let's prove our strength once again. Join me in calling for an end to Citizens United and greater transparency in our campaign finance system. Add your voice to mine, share this petition with your friends on Facebook, and make a contribution to help fuel our organizing. We won’t change this system overnight, but -- with your help -- we can change it. Sherrod

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