CHARLOTTE, NC: Consumer advocacy group SumOfUs has teamed with FitzGibbon Media on a campaign to stop Bank of America from making political contributions.

The firm is promoting a petition that demands the bank follow an upcoming shareholder resolution that would prohibit the use of corporate funding for election campaigns, candidates, and super PACs. The petition will be delivered to bank executives during a May 9 shareholder meeting. More than 75,000 people, some of them Bank of America employees and shareholders, ...