hc ny state-constitution-0914
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RIGHT-WINGBILLIONAIRESATTACK THE
NEW YORK STATE CONSTITUTION
THEY’RE RICHER THAN EVER — AND THEY’RE HURTING US TO GET RICH.
THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS:• Destroying our economy• Corrupting our government• Hurting our families, communities & environment• Exploding greed & inequality• Filling the swamp & profiting from Trump
DESTROYING OUR ECONOMY
• Wage cuts, job cuts, pension raids, outsourcing • Destruction of industrial base & jobs for short-term gain• Winner-take-all economics
CORRUPTING OUR GOVERNMENT
• Campaign cash corruption • Billions for lobbying & right-wing think tanks• Paying for dog-whistle political appeals• Funding attacks on public institutions
HURTING OUR FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES & ENVIRONMENT
• Driving up the cost of housing, medications & college • Bashing immigrants and low-income workers • Austerity attack on Puerto Rico • Profiting from mass incarceration & private prisons • Fossil fuel & toxic chemical profiteers
EXPLODING GREED & INEQUALITY
• Lavish personal consumption • Carried interest & tax loopholes• Eroding middle class values & security
FILLING THE SWAMP &PROFITING FROM TRUMP
• Pushing policies that make them millions• Keeping Americans poorly paid & in debt• Scoring profits from ICE raids & private prisons• Rigging the system to benefit billionaires
THEBILLIONAIRES
HAVE TOO MUCH POWER...
AND NOWTHEY WANTEVEN MORE
Robert Mercer—the most aggressive, racist, pro-Trump hedge fund billionaire—wants to rewrite the New York State Constitution.
WHO IS
ROBERT MERCER?
MERCER=
MONEY
MERCER=
TECHNOLOGY
MERCER=
MEDIA
THE FAVORITE BILLIONAIRE OF
THE TRUMP REGIME
MERCER=
THE POLITICS OF DIVISION AND HATE
MERCER’S ALLIES IN THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS
THE KOCH BROTHERS
JOHN PAULSON
CARL ICAHN
They are targeting our Constitution
to cut their own taxes and make themselves even richer.
RIGHT NOW, THE NEW YORK STATE CONSTITUTION PROTECTS
• Our schools • Our environment• Our civil and criminal rights• Our pensions • Our workplace & collective bargaining rights• Our safety net and healthcare
Mercer and his billionaire posse want a new constitutionthat helps billionaires — and hurts working people.
And they’ll spend millions of dollars to get it.
Every 20 years, a mandatory question appears on the general election ballot: “Shall there be a convention to amend the constitution and revise the same?” On November 7, 2017 voters will decide – yes or no.
“Reclaim New York” is Mercer’s Trojan Horse
to gut our Constitution
• A shadowy group • Working to shove New York politics to the far right • And give billionaires more power than ever
RECLAIM NEW YORK
Reclaim New York was created by Mercer & Bannon
to make New York a right-wing billionaire’s paradise
They’ll spend millions to dominate any constitutional convention
to get what they want.
• Voter suppression • Union busting • School privatization• Flat taxes that benefit billionaires • Forced fracking • Attacks on immigrants & communities of color
THE MERCER-BANNON- RECLAIM AGENDA:
IT’S UP TO US TO
STOP THEM
STOP THEIR MOVE TO
REWRITE OUR CONSTITUTION
FIGHT THEIR POLITICS OF DIVISION AND HATE
• Invest in our schools, our healthcare & our communities • Tax the rich to invest in our future • Take on Trump to demand our civil, criminal & human rights• Protect our environment & confront the climate crisis • Strengthen our economy & our democracy
BUILD A NEW YORK THAT WORKS FOR ALL OF US
STOP THEIR SCHEME TO REWRITE OUR CONSTITUTION
ON NOVEMBER 7, 2017
VOTE NO AND BLOCK THE
BILLIONAIRES