campaign finance reform

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• Health Care: Nows the Hard Part

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Harry Reid finally begged, cajoled and bribed enough votes to pass a health-care-reform bill through the Senate. But before Democrats break out the champagne, they should realize that the road to final passage hasnt gotten any easier. The bill must now go to a conference committee to resolve significant differences ...
  5 days ago

• Change Congress and Keep Climate Where it’s At

  
  keepfakingit.com — Authority: 122
  One of the strands of thought coming from Copenhagen lays the blame of a lack of fair and binding deal at the feet of the internal US political system, namely the US Senate . This has brought keepfakingit right back to March and a speech we saw one of our academic heroes, Larry Lessig , deliver to the SXSW ...
  1 week ago

• DN!: Study Reveals “Revolving Door” Between Capitol Hill Staffers and Healthcare Lobbyists

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 441
  from DemocracyNow.orgA new study on healthcare lobbying published in the Chicago Tribune has found that healthcare companies have spent $635 million on lobbying over the past two years. At least 166 former congressional aides involved in shaping healthcare legislation have registered to lobby for healthcare companies. ...
  1 week ago

• Representation

  
  Esrati — Authority: 136
  In today’s Dayton Grassroots Daily Show (or the Greg and David show as some are calling it) we start off talking about campaign finance reform- but end up talking about the differences between a democracy and a democratic republic. Greg Hunter makes a case for the electoral college, and well, I try to get my points ...
  1 week ago

• Support up for public campaign financing

  
  SC Prog Blog — Authority: 116
  ‘Hustle for money’ compromises officials, group says, and more N.C. voters see that. By Jim Morrill The Charlotte Observer When the N.C. Voters for Clean Elections began a decade ago, only a few reformers championed the idea of publicly financing state political campaigns. Since then, North Carolina has ...
  1 week ago

• Howard Dean After The Scream Wheres The Reform?

  
  Truth Surfer — Authority: 119
  Howard Dean has proven to be resilient and able to redefine himself in the face of adversity...weve seen it after the scream when he took over the DNC and with Deans fifty state strategy that helped elect Obama as well as many other Democrats... But when Obama came into the White House, I watched in disbelief as Rahm ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court Dithers on Campaign Finance

  
  Three Wise Men — Authority: 132
  This op-ed by Linda Greenhouse in the NY Times is worth excerpting: Taken as a whole, the campaign finance picture is beyond dreary. It is particularly confused and tense as the year winds down. The Supreme Court justices left this week for a monthlong recess without accomplishing the one thing that nearly everyone ...
  1 week ago

• Update on Emily’s List decision and other campaign finance matters

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 441
  KW: The Green Party believes that one way to free our government from corporate control, is to tighten up campaign finance laws, for example not taking money from corporations or taking soft money from PACS. If I understand it, the position of some Libertarians is that any person or entity should be able to give [...]
  1 week ago

• Working Families Party Documents Subpoenaed

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 441
  Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed documents from the New York City-based Working Families Party, which has been criticized in recent months over its campaign financing activities.Related:Behind The Working Families Field Operation: Candidates Pay Salaried WFP Employees As Independent Contractors, In Addition To Data ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lawsuit Over Discriminatory Public Funding Set for January 13, 2010

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 441
  KW: Because so many progressives want public campaign funding (which probably has its merits), some duopolists co-opt that message, and then write bills that promise “public campaign funding” in a sunshiney way, but have the more drastic effect of funneling lots of money to Democratic and Republican politicians, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Happy Anniversary Rod Blagojevich–Pat Quinn Signs Illinois Campaign Finance Reform; Dan Hynes Hits Sour Note

  
  THE iLLINOIS OBSERVER — Authority: 483
  Governor Pat Quinn (Chicago, IL) — December 9, 2009 . On the first anniversary of former Governor Rod Blagojevich ’s arrest, Governor Pat Quinn today signed into law a campaign finance bill that imposes Illinois’ first-ever contribution limits in Illinois. “This new law requires politicians to be more ...
  3 weeks ago

• Should Blanche Lincoln Divest Herself Of Insurance Industry Bribes Like The NRSC Demands? Yes-- And So Should McCain, McConnell, Grassley, et al

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 596
  Down With Tyranny is probably the last place online one would come to look for a defense of Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln. There are 41 posts since January 2 of this year with her name tagged. Each and every one is extremely negative. We persuaded Hebiclens -- who had previously only specialized in photographing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will Lieberman Give The Republicans The Margin They Need To Kill Healthcare Reform?

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 596
  Crooks Forget the public polling that shows most Americans want Congress to pass healthcare reform with a public option . Why forget it? Because your senators not only wont take public opinion into account, they would rather just focus on the Astroturfed rantings of last summers moronic teabaggers than on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Power to the People: The Fair Elections Now Act

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 563
  As early as the time of Socrates, people have identified money as a corruptive influence in politics, specifically in democracies.  Elections now cost double and triple what they used to, which means more and more of our Senators’ and Representatives’ time is spent dialing for dollars.  The average member of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Does Minnesota have the answer to campaign finance reform?

  
  New Deal 2.0 — Authority: 138
  City College sophomore Gareth Rhodes shows how Minnesota’s campaign finance system gives citizens a more vital role in the electoral process and political life. Minnesota is no stranger to non-traditional politics. Though in the last 10 years they’ve sent a professional wrestler to the governor’s mansion and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Broncos Running Scared!

  
  Calgary Rants — Authority: 115
    Give it up Dave!  Our Mayor, Dave Bronconnier just refuses to let the campaign fundraising issue go.  He brought this issue up last February and continues to push it in advance of the 2010 Calgary Municipal Election.  If you really think about it, it is not hard to see why!   His last challenger, Alnoor ( I ...
  4 weeks ago

• NY Times asks for financial reform in Albany

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 441
  An overview of campaign finance and funding concerns in New York State government:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/opinion/30mon1.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2Just one small item from a detailed article:“The average national limit for contributions in governor’s races is around $7,500 per election. In New York, the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is The Healthcare Bill As It Now Stands Even Worse Than Nothing?

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 596
  This mornings San Francisco Chronicle pointed up the inconsistencies in comparing the proposed healthcare reforms with the Insurance Industry straw man (Canada and Britain) and the reality of the countries the U.S. system would actually be modeled like: Netherlands, Switzerland (which certainly must be the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rev Billy prophetic: Reports say Bloomberg spent $102 million dollars

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 441
  On election day, November 3, 2009, a whimsical post appeared at the Reverend Billy for Mayor of NYC website. Reverend Billy’s campaign claimed that, since he had just won $100 million dollars in the lottery, Reverend Billy now had a fair chance to beat Mayor Bloomberg for Mayor. Here is the headline: “REV. BILLY ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dan Lungren Comes Out Strongly Against Fair Election Reforms

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 596
  If youve been following the Blue America PAC at all, you may already be aware that weve decided that we wont be endorsing any candidates for the House in 2010 unless they are genuinely enthusiastic about passing John Larsons Fair Elections Now Act ( HR 1826 ). Were not asking for some unenforceable pledge; we want ...
  5 weeks ago

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