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Wolf PAC
Wolf PAC is an American non-partisan political action committee formed in 2011 with the goal of "ending corporate personhood and publicly financing all elections in our country", to include the restriction of large monetary donations to political candidates, parties, and groups.〔(The Plan ), official Wolf PAC web site, Accessed May 4, 2014.〕〔Katerina Nikolas, Nov 9, 2011 in World, Digital Journal, (Wolf-PAC.com: Proposal to prevent corporations buying politicians ), Accessed Jan. 15, 2014, “...In October, Cenk Uygur, ... announced the launch of Wolf-PAK during Occupy Wall Street protests. Wolf-PAC is a political action committee with a mission to pass the 28th Amendment to prevent corporations buying politicians...”〕 It began with an announcement at an Occupy Wall Street rally in New York City by ''The Young Turks'' host Cenk Uygur. On a state level Wolf PAC has bi-partisan support for its objectives.
Its strategy is to add a 28th amendment to the Constitution, thereby overturning multiple Supreme Court cases including ''Citizens United v. FEC'' and ''Buckley v. Valeo'', which cumulatively have made it impossible to achieve Wolf PAC's campaign finance goals through simple legislation. Wolf PAC believes that Congress is too corrupt to pass such an amendment itself, and therefore advocates a convention of the States, which is a procedure outlined in Article V of the Constitution. As of July 2015, four out of the necessary thirty-four states have passed resolutions calling for such a convention.
==Formation and background==
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. FEC that it is unconstitutional to restrict independent expenditures by corporations, unions, and other associations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission )〕 This ruling was followed in March by the D.C. District Court of Appeals Speechnow.org v. FEC case, in which the court explicitly allowed the creation of Super PACs, which are allowed to spend unlimited money to influence elections, as long as they do not coordinate with any candidates.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Speechnow.org v. FEC )〕
These court cases are widely viewed as having worsened the influence of moneyed interests in the American political system,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=In Supreme Court Ruling on Campaign Finance, the Public Dissents )〕 and convinced Cenk Uygur, the host of the online news show The Young Turks, that action was necessary.〔9780002183987〕 Although the paperwork to form Wolf PAC was filed with the FEC as early as June 2010,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Statement of Organization )〕 Uygur announced the creation of Wolf PAC on October 19, 2011 during the Occupy Wall Street occupation of Zucotti Park in New York City.
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