"Today the U.S. Supreme Court threw out six decades of established law by granting corporations the right to use their incredible wealth and power to influence elections--thereby diminishing the power of your vote...

Imagine ExxonMobil or AIG throwing huge sums of money directly into Congressional attack ads.

Such a scenario used to be illegal. But today, the Supreme Court ruled to lift a 60-year-old ban that kept corporations from contributing directly to campaigns and candidates.
Congress must act now to protect democracy: Call on your members of Congress to fix this mess.
The tortured legal argument is this: We're infringing on a corporation's rights by keeping it out of elections ... rights specifically granted to people.
A corporation is not a person with voting rights. Corporations are not your neighbors, cannot get married, cannot die, and are not a part of "We the People." Giving corporations the rights of people would fundamentally change our democracy.
Unless we stand up, the problem of corporate money in politics could go from bad to unimaginably worse. Already, moneyed institutions have too much power over government. I shudder to think of a situation in which Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil and Big Pharma have even more control. In fact, if this had been the law of the land in 2008, ExxonMobil alone could have outspent both Barack Obama and John McCain forty (40) times over. [1]
Thankfully, some legislators are working to strengthen our campaign finance laws to prevent this. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (MD), Sen. Charles Schumer (NY), and the White House are working to pass a Legislative fix to the Supreme Court opinion.
But without more congressional support, we're dead in the water. We need Congress to prevent a flash flood of corporate money into elections. The alternative is an undemocratic system in which large corporations have even more power to drown out the voices of regular voters.
Tell your members of Congress to block corporate money in elections:"
http://www.OSPIRG.org/action/democracy/citizens-united?id4=es