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Apr09
Clips Round-up for 4/9/13
NYT editorial out this morning responding to the recent scandals in New York: "Of all the proposed reforms, the most critical is to open up elections so that voters have real choices. And that means creating a workable public financing system to encourage more candidates to come forward, much as New York City did almost 25 years ago."
Apr08Clips Round-up for 4/8/13
On a personal note, we at Public Campaign were heartbroken to learn this weekend that Anne Smedinghoff, who interned with us back in the summer of 2007, was one of the Americans killed in Afghanistan this weekend.
Apr05Clips Round-up for 4/5/13
An important story at Huffington Post about efforts in North Carolina to gut the state's popular judicial public financing program. Art Pope, who financed the Republican takeover of the state and has never liked the program, was recently named the governor's budget director. The governor's budget cuts the program.
Apr04Clips Round-up for 4/4/13
They've got a great list of speakers lined up at the Rootstrikers conference on April 20th in San Francisco.
Apr03Clips Round-up for 4/3/13
New York
WBFO: State Senator arrested on corruption charges
NY State Senator Malcolm Smith was arrested yesterday on corruption charges. Citizen Action of New York's Karen Scharff: "New Yorkers don’t really need another scandal to know that big money has a corrupting influence in politics and in Albany."Apr02Clips Round-up for 4/2/13
Yesterday, the New York Times reported on a new TV ad campaign launching in New York. Here's the ad.
David Donnelly in HuffPost: "The drumbeat to pass comprehensive campaign reform in New York this year is getting louder and louder."
Apr01Clips Round-up for 4/1/13
The drumbeat for reform in New York is getting louder. Today's New York Times: "In an effort to build public support for reining in the flood of money in politics, advocates of overhauling New York State’s political fund-raising laws will spend over $800,000 on a new advertising campaign to begin on Monday."
Mar29Clips Round-up for 3/29/13
Mar28Clips Round-up for 3/28/13
Huffington Post's Paul Blumenthal on last night's great OFA call in New York that featured Jon Carson, David Donnelly, and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman: "President Barack Obama's reformatted campaign organization held a conference call with New York state supporters Wednesday night to stoke grassroots support for public campaign
Mar27Clips Round-up for
Big news yesterday: Organizing for Action announced it was joining the Campaign for Fair Elections in New York, starting with a conference call for its grassroots supporters tonight. Speakers on the call include OFA's Jon Carson, Public Campaign Action Fund's David Donnelly, and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.