Issue: Participatory Democracy Broadcast Time: 10-11:00 a.m. Program Topic: Free speech, corporate money, and democracy Key Discussion Points: a) The constitutional background of granting personhood to corporations and equating political spending with free speech. b) The practical outcomes for democracy. c) What can citizens do? Guests: A) Jeff Clements, co-founder of Free Speech for People and author of the book Corporations Are Not People. www.freespeechforpeople.org B) Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director of the Center for Responsive Politics. www.opensecrets.org Call In Program: Yes Political Broadcast: Yes Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters www.lwvme.org Engineer: Joel Mann

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