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Mar11
Clips Round-up for 3/11/13
Support for Fair Elections reform in New York State continues to grow, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released this morning. By a nearly two-to-one margin, 61 percent of voters support a small donor driven system of public financing in the state, with only 33 percent in opposition.
Mar08Clips Round-up for 3/8/13
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) will be in New York City today to speak at a CED event on, "The Role of Money in Politics in New York State: Promoting Small Dollar Democracy." If you're in the city, check it out! On Monday, he'll do a tele-townhall with grassroots activists on the campaign to pass Fair Elections.
Mar07Clips Round-up for 3/7/13
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will hold a tele-townhall Monday with activists from the Fair Elections campaign, "a sign that a new push for campaign finance reform is on the horizon." There's a Facebook invite here. Let me know if you have any questions or need more details about it. You should call in!
Mar06Clips Round-up for 3/6/13
Yesterday, the Hawaii House of Representatives passed legislation to establish a Fair Elections-type system for state legislators on a vote of 48-3. It now heads to the House. Public Campaign's field director is currently on the ground in Hawaii working with state advocates.
Mar05Clips Round-up for 3/5/13
Professor, author, and Public Campaign Action Fund board member Zephyr Teachout has a great new Huffington Post piece on the fight for Fair Elections in New York: "How April in New York Can Change the Country."
Mar04Clips Round-up for 3/4/13
The one thing not impacted by sequestration is the Congressional fundraising schedule. Up on the Public Campaign blog: Sen. John Cornyn is holding two events with Wall Street lobbyists this week, just a month after pledging to block Rich Cordray's nomination to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Mar01Clips Round-up for 3/1/2013
Yesterday, the NRSC launched a new website blasting President Obama for OFA and "selling access" to the White House. If Republicans are upset about OFA and special interest influence, they should probably offer up policy solutions to address their concerns, we say.
Feb27Clips Round-up for 2/27/13
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is at SCOTUS today. We'll be out front of the Court rallying in support of voting rights, keeping our fingers crossed.
Feb26Clips Round-up for 2/26/13
The Supreme Court did a good thing yesterday--it decided against hearing a challenge to the ban on direct corporate contributions to candidates.
Feb25