Marianne Williamson – The Heart of Conscious Politics

Marianne Williamson: Your question about an amendment is certainly reasonable. It took an amendment to the Constitution to abolish slavery. It took an amendment to the Constitution to give women suffrage. I personally believe, as do many others, that it will take an amendment of the Constitution to outlaw the undue influence of money and to establish that corporations do not have the right to personhood.

OMTimes: As we all know, money is the driver behind this process of getting elected. If you don’t have private wealth or access to wealth, how do you get the financial backing that is needed for the entire process?

Marianne Williamson: Particularly in a case like mine which is a grassroots campaign, I have announced publicly I am not taking special interest money, lobbyist money and so forth. In my case, the fact that I have 400,000 people on Facebook and 200,000 on Twitter is what makes me believe that enough people are in my social media universe and if enough people give me five dollars I would be able perhaps to do this and I have raised enough money to be a credible campaign.

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Darren Long Senior: BlackMP Living Water

The issue now is am I able to raise enough money to be a competitive campaign in these last three months before the primary on June 3rd where paid media is absolutely essential. We have over 400,000 people who are registered voters in my District, so the issue is, will you be able to get enough in terms of direct mail and television and advertising to be able to reach enough of those voters. You know, because until money is out, money is in. LA obviously is probably the most expensive media market in the country. It is quite a challenge but well worth the effort.