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To Presidential Debate Moderator Jim Lehrer:

As American citizens concerned that the record amounts that will be spent on this campaign pose a threat to good government, we call on you to spend one of the six 15-minute segments in the first presidential debate pressing the candidates on what they plan to do to address this issue. In particular, we call on you to ask them: “If elected, would you call on Congress to study and propose a Constitutional Amendment designed to reduce the influence of money in our political system - yes or no - and, if not, what would you do to address voter concerns that campaign money is corrupting our political system?”
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Elections not auctions - debate it!
Just one man, Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, has vowed to spend more than $100 million dollars supporting Mitt Romney’s candidacy and now we know why -- a new analysis shows he stands to win back more than $2 billion in tax breaks if Romney ends up in the White House. The system is broken and most Americans know it, but now we have a chance to begin to fix it.

Ever since the Supreme Court declared that people and corporations have the same First Amendment right to spend money to influence our political system, the situation has gotten out of hand, with campaigns dominated by a handful of wealthy elites drowning out the voices of the rest of us. The result is a government beholden to the needs of the 1% at the expense of everyone else. And the only way to fully fix the problem is with a Constitutional Amendment designed to get big money out of democracy for good. But to get that ball rolling, we need to force our candidates and our country to start talking about it.

On Oct. 3, PBS’s Jim Lehrer will moderate the first presidential debate, covering six domestic policy issues for 15 minutes each.  Let’s push him to make this one.  Sign now and share with everyone you know -- when we reach 100,000, our voices will be delivered straight to Lehrer’s office in DC, and plastered at the debate site in Denver.

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