My apologies if this is "old news" to you. It surprised the hell out of me, when I first learned about it this week.
With our Supreme Court about to rule on whether the "Rights of Corporations" extends to choosing the type of Health Care items its (Female) employees may receive -- it would be wise to consider where this continued empowering of Corporate Rights could ultimately lead.
It could lead to one of our worst nightmare ... a Government of We the Corporations ...
Steve Lavin, Montana Legislator, Didn't Mean To Give Corporations The Right To Vote
by John Celock, huffingtonpost.com -- 02/25/2013
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State Rep. Steve Lavin (R-Kalispell) told The Huffington Post that he introduced the voting reform bill thinking it would grant non-resident property owners the ability to vote in local elections. He said he did not realize the impact of Section 2 of the bill, which gave corporations, firms and partnerships the right to vote in local elections in towns where they own property.
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"I made a mistake of not paying enough attention to this bill," Lavin said. "It came through with that in there. This kind of surprised me in a way. I would have liked to amend that out of there."
Lavin said he introduced the bill at the request of a local constituent, a common practice in Montana. [...]
After it was brought to his attention that he was proposing to give corporations the right to vote, Lavin said he wanted to strike that section from the legislation. But the House did not have time to handle an amendment to his bill in committee and the committee did not want to let the Senate handle the amendment process.
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Lavin doesn't know yet if he will reintroduce a version of the bill in the future.
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State Rep Steve Lavin just made a mistake. State Rep Steve Lavin was just listening to the needs of a "constituent." State Rep Steve Lavin never
meant to to give
Corporations the Right to Vote -- that was just an "oversight."
Then why is the State Rep "unsure" when he will "try it again" ...
Could it be that State Rep Steve Lavin, needs to check back in with his Corporate-enablers? Could it be that they some "updated language" for him to try and sneak into the next random Bill. Long as he's not reading them and all ...
Could it be that State Rep Steve Lavin, just does what he is told ... to move forward someone else's Agenda?
ALEC-er Would Give Corps the Right to Vote
posted on becauseican-2old2care.blogspot.com -- Feb 22, 2013
[From Think Progress]
This ALEC legislator was part of “once upon a time” ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force (Voter ID bill). This must be a piece of ALEC “model legislation” they keep hidden in the ALEC vault.
A bill introduced by Montana state Rep. Steve Lavin would give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections:
Provision for vote by corporate property owner. (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a firm, partnership, company, or corporation owns real property within the municipality, the president, vice president, secretary, or other designee of the entity is eligible to vote in a municipal election as provided in [section 1].
(2) The individual who is designated to vote by the entity is subject to the provisions of [section 1] and shall also provide to the election administrator documentation of the entity’s registration with the secretary of state under 35-1-217 and proof of the individual’s designation to vote on behalf of the entity.
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Kind of sounds like something written by some Corporate Lawyers -- and NOT the idle musings of a "local" Montana property owner, doesn't it?
Who knew that such little technical language could give Corporate Property-owners such HUGE Rights to Vote -- in our "Human" Elections?
Well, whoever drafted those two legal paragraphs knew ... and if were all not careful and vigilant -- we may all "know" about this soon -- after it's too late.
After our system of 'public representation' get tweaked -- so it can be molded and crafted, by the highest Corporate Bidders ...
Buyers Beware. ... Human buyers, that is. You know, We the (Human) People-kind™.