American workers can make speeches, participate in elections, and (most importantly) go out and vote.
Unions don't need to duplicate this. (Especially if the union higher-ups want to support a politician that the rank-and-file membership don't like.)
Edit: In fact, that might be an easier way to phrase the petition: No contributions from anyone who isn't on the voters' list. No corporate donations, no union donations, no foreign donations... and a smaller pool of campaign funding means fewer attack ads on TV, which is a bonus.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Unions don't need to duplicate this. (Especially if the union higher-ups want to support a politician that the rank-and-file membership don't like.)
Edit: In fact, that might be an easier way to phrase the petition: No contributions from anyone who isn't on the voters' list. No corporate donations, no union donations, no foreign donations... and a smaller pool of campaign funding means fewer attack ads on TV, which is a bonus.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012