A national issue will come to Sharon Town Meeting Monday night when local voters debate a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court decision that opened the gates to unlimited election spending by corporations, labor unions, and other organizations.
The proposed amendment to overturn the court’s 2010 decision on the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission case has garnered wide support in Massachusetts, as voters in 170 communities statewide backed it at the polls last month and more than 70 towns and cities have approved local resolutions supporting .
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Sharon Town Meeting is going local to national on another issue Monday night: asking Town residents to learn about, reduce use, and improve health by educating people about risks of mercury dental amalgam. Articles 11, 12 and 13 call for a voluntary town-wide educational campaign on the issues, risks and alternatives to mercury dental amalgam; Sharon dentists to provide Informed Consent for use of mercury dental amalgam with patients getting the same warnings the FDA requires manufacturers to give to dentists; and offering Town employees an option to purchase a cost-neutral dental plan. In Article 11, Town Meeting will also ask the President of the United States to direct the FDA to follow the recommendations of its 2010 Scientific Advisory Panel to restrict amalgam use. Please come, hear about others' experiences and share your own concerns, and support this effort to learn, reduce use, and improve health for you, your family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers.