[AtLast]

I've decided that although I will work here in CA for Democrat candidates and Obama campaigns, my main political energy is going to be about a Constitutional Amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision.

This will take years to accomplish, but as I see it, the single most important challenge to our democratic processes in the 21st century. The last Constitutional amendment attempt I threw myself into was the Equal Rights Amendment that was never ratified by the number states required. It was initially introduced in 1923, just after women gained the right to vote. It fell apart in 1982 without state required ratification and even if it had gained enough states to ratify, the extension it was give back in I think 1979, most likely would have been overturned.

So strange to look back and think about the biggest "threat" to the ERA given by those that opposed it was that women would be then subjected to combat roles during times of war if serving in the military. Hummm.... such irony when one considers the role of our women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan today without the ERA ever being ratified!

There were 59 years in which the ERA was tossed about and never ratified! That is only one year less than my age now and my Grandmother was among suffragists that first introduced the ERA. So, I guess I better get busy with working toward the possibility of seeing Citizens United be overturned within my lifetime! However, it will have to be one hell of a lot shorter time frame!

Bernie Sanders appears to be serious about taking this on, but he is older than I am! So, I think that this effort needs to begin with the gathering of young voters as it may take one hell of a long time to ever see it become a ratified constitutional amendment. However, it has such a direct effect on young people coming up in the US in terms of actually having their vote mean anything! Unless one is a billionaire.