Fair Elections Action Week


Letters in Indiana and Alaska
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 1:39pm.
Fair Elections Action Week has wrapped up but not without a few more media mentions of the efforts to win full public financing of elections both at the state and federal level. A good letter to the editor in Indianapolis about the Fair Elections Now Act, and this letter to the editor in Kodiak, Alaska about state efforts to win a Clean Elections system.
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Action on Judicial Races
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 3:10pm.
Jake Miller, a high school teacher and chairman of the Common Cause Pennsylvania campaign for full public financing of elections takes the occasion of Fair Elections Action Week to make this argument in favor of a public financing system for judicial races like North Carolina has, and New Mexico recently passed.
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The More You Know
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 11:58am.
Nicole Brodeur, a columnist for the Seattle Times devotes her space today to Fair Elections Action Week, the wisdom of publicly financing campaigns, and the forum that Washington Public Campaigns will host tomorrow at the University of Washington about supporting public financing for state races.
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Another Good Democracy Matters Piece
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 4:47pm.
More from the students leaders of Democracy Matters, this time an editorial in the Brown Daily Herald by Rachel Forman and Colin Lentz: "Candidates are winning elections and lining the pockets of private contractors at the expense of the American people. Our political system needs help." The byline indicates Lentz and Forman will "dance for democracy" -- who'll take them up on it?
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Letter in Abilene
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 11:27am.
David Weller of Abilene, Texas and the blog All Things Reform has this letter to the editor on Fair Elections Action Week in the Reporter News: "Voting is an intellectual exercise, not a pocketbook one." Full letter after the jump.
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On Loan
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Wed, 11/14/2007 - 2:47pm.
Abby Hemenway, the president of the Cornell University chapter of Democracy Matters writes in the Cornell Daily Sun about the connection between campaign contributions from student loan companies the rising debt college graduates must shoulder.
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