1. United States
2. Ga.
3. Letter

Hawaii just passed SB 2471 unanimously through its Senate, and Georgia should follow. The bill takes a straightforward approach: corporations are artificial persons created by state law, so the state can simply decline to grant them the power to spend money on elections. Individual citizens keep their full right to donate. Corporations don't. This matters because super PACs have flooded elections with cash since Citizens United. From 2010 to 2022, they spent $6.4 billion on federal races alone, with a record $2.7 billion in 2024. Georgia is not immune to this. Dark money distorts our elections and buries the voices of actual voters under corporate spending. Hawaii's bill has already cleared one House committee and is further along than similar legislation in any of the 12 other states where it's been introduced, including Georgia. I want Georgia to introduce and pass comparable legislation this session. The legal theory is sound: corporations only hold the powers the state grants them, and we can choose not to grant this one.