Corporations ARE People! (At least in Aurora)

"It's come to the attention of the Libertarian Party of Colorado that the City of Aurora, Colorado is proposing to allow Gaylord Entertainment the right to vote, in addition to the $300 million dollars worth of incentives they plan on giving Gaylord to build their new private hotel complex in the northern part of the city.

The Libertarian Party of Colorado stands firm against corporations voting in elections. "Giving a corporation the right to vote is really a form of fascism. If we allow corporations to vote, there will be nothing to stop corporations from buying and influencing any elections that they choose." said Rob McNealy, Media Director of the Libertarian Party of Colorado.

The pertinent section and clause of the "incentive agreement" (attached) is on page 56, section 2 where it states: "WITH RESPECT TO ANY TAXABLE OR REAL PERSONAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE AREA OR PROPOSED AREA WHOSE OWNER IS NOT A NATURAL PERSON, ONE NATURAL PERSON WHO IS QUALIFIED TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN THE GENERAL ELECTIONS IN THIS STATE AND IS DESIGNATED BY SUCH OWNER TO VOTE FOR SUCH OWNER, WHETHER SUCH NATURAL PERSON RESIDES IN THE AREA OR PROPOSED AREA OR NOT. SUCH DESIGNATION SHALL BE IN WRITING AND FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK. ONLY ONE SUCH PERSON MAY BE DESIGNATED BY EACH OWNER."

The Aurora City Council will be having a hearing about the Gaylord Entertainment deal, and we encourage all citizens concerned about this to have their voices heard by testifying. The public hearing will be held during the upcoming City Council meeting on Monday the 22nd, 2011 at 7:30PM, at the Aurora Municipal Center located at 15151 East Alameda Parkway, Aurora, CO 80012."

Sadly cydl the corps already buy and influence politicians through PACs and lobbyists. We, the people, need to stop this type of thing, but few will make their voice heard.

Agreed. I wonder how many other "voters" are on the roles this way that we don't know about?

It's the only power citizens have left. Watch as they distract us with partisan bickering while they dilute this last power to nothing.

My only hope is that it isn't too late. It seems to me that most voting is done based on 30-second sound bites that are meaningless. And for those of us who do take the time to actually research candidates the records are so obscured by partisan media and general hype that it's difficult to get an impartial, accurate evaluation.

But maybe that's the way of all nations - they get to a certain apex of prosperity, and power and greed take over to destroy them. Descent into chaos...

My, aren't I cheery today? tongue:

Our democratic republic was a hard won privilege. If we squander it with meaningless fights we deserve to lose it. When I watch the kind of childish squabbling that goes on here I despair.

I'm afraid I do, too. It seems that compromise is a dirty word these days - although democracies are built on compromise. I still believe that we all have much more in common than not - but you'd never know it with the petty bickering and standoffs.

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HEARTLESS wrote: Sadly cydl the corps already buy and influence politicians through PACs and lobbyists. We, the people, need to stop this type of thing, but few will make their voice heard.

The only way to stop it is to get back to a layered republican form of governance where each layer, starting with the individual citizen, governs themselves to the limit of their competency before allowing a representative of several people to be chosen to govern to the limit of their competency before having another representative of a larger group govern to the limits of theirs. Personally I don't think the gang in DC is competent to govern themselves, let alone the rest of us.