No Con Con

1. RIGHT-WING
BILLIONAIRES
ATTACK THE
NEW YORK STATE
CONSTITUTION

2. 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

3. DESTROYING OUR ECONOMY
• Wage cuts, job cuts, pension raids, outsourcing
• Destruction of industrial base & jobs for short-term gain
• Winner-take-all economics

4. CORRUPTING OUR GOVERNMENT
• Campaign cash corruption
• Billions for lobbying & right-wing think tanks
• Paying for dog-whistle political appeals
• Funding attacks on public institutions

5. 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

6. EXPLODING GREED & INEQUALITY
• Lavish personal consumption
• Carried interest & tax loopholes
• Eroding middle class values & security

7. 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

8. THE
BILLIONAIRES
HAVE TOO
MUCH POWER...

9. AND NOW
THEY WANT
EVEN MORE

10. Robert Mercer—the most aggressive, racist, pro-Trump hedge fund
billionaire—wants to rewrite the New York State Constitution.

11. WHO
IS
ROBERT
MERCER?

12. MERCER=
MONEY

13. MERCER=
TECHNOLOGY

14. MERCER=
MEDIA

15. THE FAVORITE
BILLIONAIRE OF
THE TRUMP REGIME
MERCER=

16. THE POLITICS
OF DIVISION
AND HATE

17. MERCER’S ALLIES IN THE
BILLIONAIRE CLASS
THE KOCH
BROTHERS
JOHN
PAULSON
CARL
ICAHN

18. They are targeting
our Constitution
to cut their own taxes and
make themselves even richer.

19. 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

20. Mercer and his billionaire posse want a new constitution
that helps billionaires — and hurts working people.

21. And they’ll spend millions of dollars to get it.

22. 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.

23. “Reclaim New York”
is Mercer’s Trojan Horse
to gut our
Constitution

24. • A shadowy group
• Working to shove New York politics to the far right
• And give billionaires more power than ever
RECLAIM NEW YORK

25. Reclaim New York was
created by Mercer & Bannon
to make New York a
right-wing billionaire’s paradise

26. They’ll spend millions to dominate
any constitutional convention
to get what
they want.

27. • Voter suppression
• Union busting
• School privatization
• Flat taxes that benefit billionaires
• Forced fracking
• Attacks on immigrants & communities of color
THE MERCER-BANNON-
RECLAIM AGENDA:

28. IT’S UP
TO US TO
STOP THEM

29. STOP THEIR
MOVE TO
REWRITE OUR
CONSTITUTION
FIGHT THEIR POLITICS
OF DIVISION AND HATE

30. • 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

31. STOP THEIR SCHEME TO
REWRITE OUR CONSTITUTION
ONNOVEMBER7,2017
VOTE NO AND
BLOCK THE
BILLIONAIRES