Koch Brothers
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May27
Clips Round-up for 5/27/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
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May10
Clips Round-up for 5/10/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Assaults on workers and voting rights: an organized attack to shift political power
Public Campaign President Nick Nyhart and Demos’ Tova Wang write that the assault on voting rights, union rights, and campaign finance system are a concerted effort to shift political power. -
May05
Clips Round-up for 5/5/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Recuse me
Linda Greenhouse writes this column about calls for judicial recusal--focusing mostly on Prop 8 but also mentioning Common Cause's efforts with Scalia and Thomas, and Sierra Club with Scalia.
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Apr19
Clips Round-up for 4/19/11
Well folks, the Arizona legislature was able to push through its legislation to put a repeal of Clean Elections on the 2012 ballot: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hMRcWfGorFp705PT3P30iogEMDbA?docId=00ebb6b5243d4739aa0fbb9de154fa01, though as the poll we released yesterday shows, oppon
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Apr01
Clips Round-up for 4/1/11
Campaign Finance/Ethics
Federal judge upholds campaign finance law
"In his decision on Thursday, District Court Judge William Conley ruled that the law did not infringe on free speech rights, as alleged by the primary plaintiff in the case, Wisconsin Right to Life."
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Mar28
3/28/11 Daily Clips
Today’s the day for Supreme Court arguments in McComish v. Bennett, a case looking at the constitutionality of the "trigger funds" provision in Arizona Clean Elections. Lots of news about it over the weekend and this morning.
McComish/Other Campaign Finance
Arizona’s Boon to free speech
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Mar23
Clips Round-up for 3/23/11
Untitled Document Wisconsin Protest
Hundreds of Wisconsin Protestors Crash GOP Fundraiser
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Mar21
Clips Round-up for 3/21/11
Campaign Finance/Ethics
Supporting Clean Elections fund keeps politics fair
This letter in Maine reminds Mainers to check the box on their tax form that gives money to the Clean Elections fund.
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Mar08
Clips Round-up for 3/8/11
Campaign Finance/Ethics
Trump already in campaign legal trouble?
In a sign he’s not really serious about running for president, Donald Trump may have already broken campaign finance law, says Campaign Legal Center’s Paul Ryan.
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Mar02
Clips Round-up for 3/2/11
Yesterday, we released this memo in response to Charles Koch’s hilariously hypocritical op-ed in the Wall Street Journal: http://campaignmoney.org/press-room/2011/03/01/watchdog-charles-koch-op-ed
Campaign Finance
The Story of Stuff Creator teams up with Public Citizen to create Citizens United video
“The Story of Citizens United.” Check it out.