A large swath of the country’s small and medium-sized business owners have joined the growing chorus of activists and lawmakers that oppose the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling on corporate political spending, demonstrating that the U.S. business community does not uniformly support the decision, say advocates for campaign finance reform.
Those viewpoints are demonstrated both in the results of a new poll on attitudes toward Citizens United — a decision handed down two years ago this week — and in the collection of over 1,000 business-owner signatures on a petition to overturn Citizens United via a constitutional amendment. Both efforts are spearheaded by the American Sustainable Business Coalition, a coalition of business networks.
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