With your help, we are moving mountains
This #GivingTuesday, donate to the democracy movement in Pennsylvania that is making our legislature MOVE on anti-corruption legislation!
While our legislature may be known for being notoriously ineffective in moving any meaningful legislation that the public supports, we have shown how much power we the people hold when we take action together.
No, convincing our legislators to stop accepting bribes has not been easy. Convincing them to make their own bribery illegal once felt like moving a mountain. But when our communities are suffering at the hands of corruption, apathy is NOT an option.
Our legislators were more than happy to keep the public in the dark about their corruption. But we refused to let that happen on our watch:
Because of our actions, because of our pressure, we made the legislature act on the Gift Ban.
Together, we are moving that mountain.
Not even the 2014 scandal revealing House members accepted cash-stuffed envelopes from an undercover informant posing as a law enforcement lobbyist made them act!
The legislature didn’t budge when Governor Wolf came into office in 2015 with a self-imposed Gift Ban for the executive branch and urged the legislature to pass their own ban.
But together, we are moving this mountain. 33 Gift Ban bills have been introduced in the last 20 years and the only two that have made it out of committee moved because of our work.
We will continue to push the Gift Ban through each vote needed for it to become law. Please consider becoming a recurring donor today to help sustain the fight over the next year to get the Gift Ban through both chambers before session is over.
Once we pass the Gift Ban, we will continue to be a vehicle for pro-democracy & anti-corruption legislation in Pennsylvania, working to pass every policy in our Money Out, People In! Policy Platform using our Theory of Change.
Please consider joining our efforts in anyway that you can-- whether that means attending an event or meeting, lobbying with us, participating in our days of online action, or becoming a recurring donor! There is always a place for everyone in this movement.
Together we will take democracy where it's never been.
The MarchOnHarrisburg Team