lobbyists
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Jun22
Clips Round-up for 6/22/11
Campaign Finance/Fair ElectionsAnd news from New York: "Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced today the passage of legislation that provides for public financing of campaigns for the Office of the State Comptroller beginning in 2014.
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Jun17
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and the Realities of a Post-Citizens United World
Here's a round-up of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's work for the week of June 13-17, 2011.
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Jun16
Clips Round-up for 6/16/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Citizens United Rules Stall at FEC
“After almost 18 months of discussions, memorandums and regulatory debates, the Federal Election Commission failed Wednesday to begin its process for updating regulations in light of the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United.”
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Jun10
Connecticut: Citizens' Election Program is Making a Difference
After two cycles, it's fair to say that Connecticut's Citizens' Election Program has been a resounding success. With more than three quarters of the seats in the General Assembly and all of the statewide seats held by Clean Elections officials, Connecticut has truly seen the impact of taking big money out of politics and putting voters back in.
State Rep. Bob Godfrey (D) recently commented on the close of the legislative session and how marked the change really is with the Citizens' Election Program: -
May02
Clips Round-up for 5/2/11
Priorities USA Roundup
Obama's campaign ad controversy
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7364466n&tag=contentMain%3BcontentBody
Adam Smith was briefly on CBS Evening News on Saturday to talk about the new Democratic outside group, Priorities USA. Lots of those on this list in the news over this. Here's a sampling: -
Apr13
Clips Round-up for 4/13/11
Fair Elections/Campaign Finance
Fair Elections Now Act Gets a Senate Hearing
http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/fair-elections-now-act-gets-a-senate-hearing.html
Not the most optimistic write up – but coverage of the Fair Elections hearing nonetheless.
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Apr11
Clips Round-up for 4/11/11
First, check out Larry Lessig's keynote at the National Conference on Media Reform over the weekend: http://blip.tv/file/5000937
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Apr08
Clips Round-up for 4/8/11
Fair Elections/Campaign Finance
Curbing Big Money
http://www.publicampaign.org/blog/2011/04/08/nation-curbing-big-money
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Apr04
Clips Round-up for 4/4/11
Bright and early this morning President Obama launched his re-election campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-VZLvVF1FQ.
Campaign Finance/Ethics
Campaign finance reform and the Supreme Court
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Mar25
March Madness!
It's that time of year again - when everyone becomes enthralled once again by college basketball during the NCAA March Madness Tournament - and lawmakers are no exception. But instead of betting on the games, lawmakers are asking people to bet on their candidacy, holding sports related viewing events and asking often as much as $1,000 for attendance.