Wall Street:
Our Democracy is Not for Sale!

Wall Street banksters are spending billions to get the best government money can buy! It’s time to Elect Democracy for a change.

Between 1998-2008, the finance sector spent $5,178,835,253¹ buying power and influence in DC. Once in office, bought-and-sold legislators support and approve corporate-drafted policies that whittle away at our country’s safety nets and vital programs and instead fund bailouts that end up in big bank boss bonuses.

The largest campaign contributions to Congressional candidates of both parties consistently come from the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate industry (the FIRE sector, which includes big banks), the very corporations that promote deregulation in favor of casino capitalism, foreclose on the homes of veterans and families, chain students to five-figure student debt, lobbies against affordable healthcare, war-mongering and pushes harmful international free trade agreements. We must sever the finance sector’s stranglehold over our own democracy. It is up to us to stop corporate money from drowning out the needs of the 99%.

This year’s election is shaping up to be bought-and-sold by big banks too. So far, the FIRE sector has spent $253,290,163_² on the 2012 election, and we are just getting started.

Sign our petition to these top-contributing banks and FIRE-sector money mongers. Tell Wall Street to back off: