SACRAMENTO, CA - There's a good chance the political ad you're watching didn't come from any candidate, but from a corporate Super PAC with lots of money to spend on political campaigns.
"The concern this election cycle with the primaries and the top two candidates later is that it could be a big chunk of cash coming in unregulated," said Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, 12th District.
In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in "Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee" that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections.
On the decision's second anniversary, across the country people are protesting corporate greed and challenging states to overturn the ruling. Montana, so far, is the only state to reject the ruling.
State assemblymembers Wieckowski and Allen wrote a resolution urging a Constitutional Amendment to overturn the Supreme Court.
38 out of 50 states need to adopt a resolution for a Constitutional Amendment in order to overturn a Supreme Court ruling.
"Any time you amend the Constitution, you have to go out to the states to ratify it by 3/4 of states. It's an uphill battle," said Weickowski.
Protesters at the state capitol said their concerns are mostly two part - the first is not having individual voices heard, because they don't have the money to compete for politicians' attention.
"If you want to live in a true democracy, we can't have a country where money controls our politicians. People should control politicians," said Jonah Minkoff-Zern of Public Citizen.
The second concern is that the corporations gaining political influence are creating more harm than good.
"The goals of corporations are to make money," said Francisco Dominguez, a Sacramento resident who came out to the protest.
"If anything is in their way - the environment, the land, or the people, it doesn't matter to them because the bottom line is money."
The other side of the Supreme Court decision belongs to the corporations and Super PACs, who argue that they're people, too, who pay taxes, and they should have the right to do what they want with the money they've earned.