Call on Schumer to co-sponsor FENA and walk his talk.

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To his credit, Sen. Schumer is one of the few U.S. Senators to speak out against yesterday's SCOTUS ruling. However, unlike Sen. Gillibrand, he has not signed on as a cosponsor of the Fair Elections Now Act, a bill to establish voluntary public financing of Congressional campaigns. Neither has he addressed the need for greater disclosure of sponsors in campaign ads. Since he has indicated that he understands the problem, he should have no trouble w/ working to blunt the impact of the ruling.

I sent the following through his website contact form (feel free to copy it):

Dear Sen. Schumer--

Please go further than decry yesterday's ruling by SCOTUS on corporate campaign donations. Disclosure requirements were specifically mentioned in the ruling as an acceptable method of gov't regulation, but the requirement in McCain-Feingold doesn't go far enough to allow voters to properly evaluate ads. There needs to be a requirement for all contributors to any aspect of a campaign ad who have given over $2K or equivalent in goods or services to be both audibly & visibly identified in the ad. Otherwise large corporate donors including those with foreign financing can continue to form front groups and identify themselves only as "Americans for America" or some such uninformative name.

Also I see that though the junior Senator from NY is a cosponsor of FENA, Sen. Schumer is not. I will feel more secure that the Senator wants to reduce the impact of the ruling when I see him walk his talk.

Thank you.