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Mercury News Letters to the Editor for Jan. 24, 2024
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Mercury News Letters to the Editor for Jan. 24, 2024
Passage of measures before the Legislature would be a significant step toward a constitutional amendment to roll back the influence of big money in elections.
One reader writes, "Political leaders have shown the extremists at both ends of the political spectrum that their agendas will not prevail." Another writes, "The negotiation has made many needy people more likely to fall through not cracks but holes in our safety net."
U.S. Rep Lori Trahan recently co-sponsored the We the People Amendment, H.J.R. 54, and has done so in each of her three terms.
Jayapal has introduced a Constitutional amendment that would reverse the "Citizens United" decision and ends unlimited corporate donations to politicians.