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Oct20
Clips Round-up for 10/20/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
ACLU challenge to small piece of campaign finance law may lead to a slippery slope
"The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday filed a court challenge to a campaign finance law banning individual government contractors from contributing to federal political campaigns."
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Oct19
Clips Round-up for 10/19/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Occupy Wall Street planning a national convention, releases potential demands
An Occupy Wall Street working group put out its demands--the first four all have to do with money and politics and influence peddling. You can see them here: https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/. -
Oct18
Clips Round-up for 10/18/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Rules of the Game: Super PACs multiply, head to Hill
Eliza Newlin Carney asks, are super PACs the new black? Will they be the new leadership PAC?
Cain's 9-9-9 plan, the tax code, and the campaign finance connection -
Oct14
Clips Round-up for 10/14/11
Oh look, supercommittee member Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) filed his 3rd quarter fundraising reports yesterday. Is that a Las Vegas fundraiser I see in September? http://campaignmoney.org/blog/2011/10/14/supercommittee-member-dave-camps-3rd-quarter-fundraising. Seems like he might have something more important to do.
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
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Oct13
Clips Round-up for 10/13/11
Join us in DC next Tuesday for an event at GWU Law School featuring Larry Lessig. He'll talk about his new book, "Republic Lost." http://publicampaign.org/blog/2011/10/12/join-us-how-money-corrupts-congress-lawrence-lessig
Also, Several members and friends of this list made the "Top Grassroots Lobbyists" list at The Hill: Bob Edgar, Craig Holman, Meredith McGehee, Ed Mierzwinski, Melanie Sloan, and Fred Wertheimer: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/187225-top-lobbyists-grassroots
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Oct12
Clips Round-up for 10/12/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Election Reform
A letter in Kansas talks about the influence of Wall Street on our political process. "Getting rid of the influence of large contributions, big money bundlers and contributions by lobbyists is possible. However, true campaign finance reform will require a broad-based mass movement demanding a law similar to the Fair Elections Now Act (S. 750, H.R. 1404)."
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Oct11
Clips Round-up for 10/11/11
First off, if you aren't already, make sure to follow Republican presidential candidate @buddyroemer on Twitter. http://twitter.com/#!/buddyroemer. Lots of real-talk about our broken system.
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Get money out, phase 2
Public Campaign's Nick Nyhart and businessman Leo Hindery spoke with Dylan Ratigan yesterday about his get money out campaign.
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Oct07
Clips Round-up for 10/7/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Hybrid PACs: Super PACs and traditional PACs can merge
Regular PACs, which can donate money to candidates, can now raise money like super PACs, which can't donate. They just have to have separate bank accounts for the donatable and non-donatable money.
Revising the "get money out" draft amendment -
Oct06
Clips Round-up for 10/6/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Democrats ramp up calls for ethics probe of Clarence Thomas
"House Democrats are ratcheting up the pressure for a formal investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for failing to disclose information relating to his wife's earnings -- as much as $1.6 million over the past 13 years -- on his annual financial disclosure forms."
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Oct05
Clips Round-up for 10/5/11
Yesterday, we launched http://www.occupydemocracy.org/. In our statement in support of the Occupy Wall Street protests, we wrote: "In addition to occupying Wall Street, we need to occupy democracy. In a democracy occupied by everyday people, big donors and corporate special interests wouldn’t drown out the voices of the rest of us." Follow us (and join in!) on Twitter today with the hashtag #occupydemocracy.
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections