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From: Ben & Jerry via Bernie 2016 <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:15:51 +0000
Subject: Ben & Jerry: people, Ben & Jerry's: corporation
To: Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx>
Ben Cohen: Hi, I'm Ben.
Jerry Greenfield: And I'm Jerry.
Ben Cohen: I'm a person.
Jerry Greenfield: And I'm a person.
Ben Cohen: And together, we came up with a company called Ben &
Jerry's Homemade, Inc.
Jerry Greenfield: That's a corporation.
Ben Cohen: Ben, person. Jerry...
Jerry Greenfield: Person.
Ben Cohen: Ben & Jerry's, not a person...that's a corporation.
Jerry Greenfield: They're different.
Ben Cohen: But there's this problem. The Supreme Court decided that
corporations are people, and that they're entitled to the same rights
as people are. It's called "corporate personhood."
Jerry Greenfield: That's ridiculous. And what it means is that this
presidential election, there will be a whole mess of shadowy money and
corporate contributions backing candidates and causes on both sides of
the aisle.
Ben Cohen: Except for Bernie Sanders, of course. Bernie has led the
fight to put an end to the corrupting influence of big money in our
politics.
Jerry Greenfield: From the very beginning, Bernie's called for a
constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United -- something with
which we couldn't agree more.
Ben Cohen: Sign Bernie Sanders' petition calling for a constitutional
amendment to reverse the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court
decision:
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/citizens-united-bj?source=em150714su-bj
Jerry Greenfield: People thought we were crazy when we started putting
dough into our ice cream.
Ben Cohen: But what's really crazy is all the dough corporations are
putting into politics.
Jerry Greenfield: The issue is so important because all of the money
it introduces into the political process influences almost every issue
Congress considers.
Ben Cohen: Join us and sign Bernie Sanders' campaign to overturn
Citizens United.
Sign the petition:
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/citizens-united-bj?source=em150714su-bj
Thanks for joining us in this important effort!
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield----
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