campaign financing

Submitted by Brian Allison on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 1:03pm.

Joan Mandle, executive director of the Democracy Matters Institute, explains the importance of making our government truly "of, by and for the people" through the Fair Elections Now Act in this guest column in the Utica Observer-Dispatch.

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Country needs Fair Elections

Submitted by Brian Allison on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 12:44pm.

Posted in: campaign financing | Fair Elections

Alex Kaplan of Common Cause Pennsylvania issues a call for the end of the tradition of big moneyed special interests funneling millions into our legislators' campaign coffers in this Letter to the Editor in Sunday's edition of The Times Leader.

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Clips Round-Up for 5/24/10

Submitted by Sam Greenberg on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 8:40am.

Posted in: Arizona | campaign financing | lobbying reform | money in politics | Wall Street

The round-up of news clips for May 24, 2010.

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Clips Round-Up for 5/21/10

Submitted by Sam Greenberg on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 8:41am.

Posted in: california | campaign finance laws | campaign financing | DISCLOSE | Wall Street

The round-up of news clips for May 21, 2010.

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Best Election Money Can Buy

Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Mon, 10/16/2006 - 2:22pm.

Posted in: california | campaign financing | campaign spending | Proposition 89

Election season: a time for careful and nuanced debate about the issues of the day and how they'll honestly affect vot--oh, sorry. Must have hit my head on something. No, as Virginia Ellis and Dan Morian explain in an article on the raging campaign spending in California, the battle on November 7th is all about the money.

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