Russell Simmons Constitutional Amendment

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After nearly two months, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg clears out Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, the central location of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Despite this news, business mogul Russell Simmons, called an emergency press conference in Boston to present a Constitutional amendment written for a true democracy by a leading Senior Congressman, which bars all but public financing for Federal candidates running for public office.

The amendment reads as follows:

Section 1. All elections for President and members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate shall be publicly financed. No political contributions shall be permitted to any federal candidate, from any other source, including the candidate. No political expenditures shall be permitted in support of any federal candidate, or in opposition to any federal candidate, from any other source, including the candidate. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to abridge the freedom of the press.

Section 2. The Congress shall, by statute, provide limitations on the amounts and timing of the expenditures of such public funds and provide criminal penalties for any violation of this section.

Section 3. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 4. This article shall be inoperative unless it is ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution.

Watch the announcement:  Russell Simmons Speaks at Occupy Wall Street (Boston)

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