HEY!

Do you hate the insane amount of corporate money that is spent to influence our elections?

We do too!

Join FL CPR in our fight to put a FL constitutional amendment on the 2028 ballot to remove the corporate power to spend in elections. This will apply to all “artificial persons” including businesses, nonprofits, and labor unions.This will do two very important things:

1. Make it illegal for corporations to donate money to political committees, political action committees (including Super PACs), or spend money on political ads.2. Get rid of dark money in elections. Right now, billionaires (and trillionaires) give money to nonprofits or shell companies that in turn donate to PACs. PACs only report the name of the nonprofit or shell company as the donor, giving ultra-wealthy donors anonymity.

FL CPR is fighting to give power back to the people.

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🤮🤮How it works now🤮🤮:

✨✨How it will work after Corporate Power Reset ✨✨:

Corporations, non-profits, labor unions, and other "artificial persons" are entities created by the state and endowed with powers through corporate charters. For example, they can give them the power to open a bank account or the power to hire employees.For the past 200 years, the supreme court has affirmed that it is every state's right to determine what powers they wish to extend to artificial persons.Unfortunately, over the past 100 years states have been in a race to the bottom to grant corporations more and more powers. Today, most states give corporations the power to do almost anything a person can do.In 2010, Citizens United v. FEC ruled that if corporate charters give artificial persons the power to spend in politics, then we cannot limit their independent political expenditures, as doing so would limit their free speech.*So the solution is simple: revoke the corporate power to spend in elections.Power to the people, not corporations.* The precedent that political spending is a form of free speech was set by the Supreme Court case Buckley v. Valeo in 1976. Unfortunately, this cannot be undone without a national constitutional amendment that states "Money is NOT speech". Don't worry! An awesome organization called Move to Amend is working on it! They have put forth the We the People Amendment that states "Money is NOT speech, a corporation is NOT a person, and we shall regulate both in our elections." FL CPR is proud to endorse MTA and the We the People Amendment.

Get in touch!

Are you interested in volunteering? Do you have a question? Do you want to stay updated on our progress?We'd love to hear from you!You can email us as [email protected] or fill out our contact formWe'll get back to you ASAP.

How much influence do corporations currently have over Florida politicians? A LOT! Take a look at their political integrity scores to see just how much corporate PAC money our representatives take:

These scorecards are made available by the Political Integrity Project (PIP), and can be downloaded from integrityindex.us. Though we love and support their work, PIP is unaffiliated and completely separate from FL CPR. Check out their work at integrityindex.us to learn more about how scores are calculated.

1. BALLOT TITLE (≤15 words)
No Political Spending Power for Corporations, Labor Unions, and Other Artificial Persons
2. BALLOT SUMMARY (69 words)
This amendment provides that corporations, labor unions, nonprofits, and other artificial persons authorized under Florida law do not hold the power to spend money or anything of value to influence the outcome of a vote of the electorate. Such spending is void and withdraws the entity's charter privileges, subject to legislative reinstatement. The amendment does not affect bona fide news, commentary, or editorial content, or spending by political committees.
3. ARTICLE AND SECTION
Creates Article X, New Section.
4. FULL TEXT (entire text underlined on submission copy)
Powers of artificial person.
(1) The state extends to an artificial person only those powers defined as artificial-person powers, and no others, as a condition of state-conferred legal status and charter privileges. Any action taken outside those powers with respect to political spending power is void and results in the withdrawal of all charter privileges, subject only to reinstatement pursuant to procedures the legislature may enact, which may require full disgorgement of amounts expended in such political spending activity, certification of future compliance, and any additional conditions as the legislature considers appropriate.
(2) As used in this section, the following definitions apply:
(a) "Artificial person" means an entity whose existence or limited liability shield is conferred by Florida law, including an entity organized or existing under the laws of another jurisdiction that is authorized to transact business, is otherwise transacting business, or holds property in Florida. An entity organized or existing under the laws of another jurisdiction that directly or indirectly undertakes, finances, or directs the exercise of political spending power in the state of Florida is conclusively considered to be transacting business in this state for the purposes of this section.
(b) "Artificial-person powers" means powers necessary or convenient to carry out lawful business or charitable purposes as provided by statute, excluding political spending power.
(c) "Charter privilege" means any legal benefit to an artificial person that exists only because the state of Florida confers it.
(d) (i) "Political spending power" means the legal capacity to expend money or anything of value to influence the outcome of a vote of the electorate.
(ii) The term does not include the distribution of bona fide news, commentary, or editorial content unless the publishing entity is owned or controlled by a political party, a political committee, or a candidate.
(iii) Political spending power may be exercised by political committees, as provided by law.
(3) This section takes effect on January 1, 2030.