Nick Nyhart
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Oct11
Must Watch: Public Campaign President Nick Nyhart on Dylan Ratigan Show
Public Campaign President Nick Nyhart joined businessman Leo Hindery, Jr. on the Dylan Ratigan show yesterday. Nyhart discussed the importance of fixing the broken political system by making big political money toxic and also bringing ordinary people back into our system.
"If you will, we need to "occupy democracy." And getting the ordinary people back in means a small donor based system like the Fair Elections system currently up for debate in Congress." -
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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Jul28
Clips round-up for 7/28/11
Fair Elections/Campaign Finance
O’Donnell Wants IRS to Punish Watchdog
Former Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell (R) wants the IRS to revoke CREW’s tax-exempt status.
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Jul25
Clips round-up for 7/25/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Plan to cut budget of ethics office fails House vote
Rep. Mel Watt's (D-N.C.) efforts to slash the ethics office budget failed after people weren't allowed to vote anonymously.
Lobbyists campaign contributions are the real issue- 2012
- Big Oil
- Bob Edgar
- bundlers
- Citizens United
- Clips
- Common Cause
- consumer financial protection agency
- David Donnelly
- FEC
- Fred Upton
- fundraising
- Jack Abramoff
- Koch Brothers
- Maine Citizens for Clean Elections
- McComish v. Bennett
- Michele Bachmann
- Nick Nyhart
- Office of Congressional Ethics
- PACs
- President Obama
- public campaign
- Rupert Murdoch
- Wall Street
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May19
News Corp. Disclosure Policy Stirs Controversy
This week News Corporation unveiled a new policy of annual disclosure of their political activities. Specifically, the policy mandates that information on corporate political contributions made in 2011 be made available in January of 2012.
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May10
Public Campaign's Nick Nyhart and DEMOS' Tova Wang: Attack on Workers Part of Organized Effort to Shift Political Power
The assault on workers taking place all over the country, most notably in Wisconsin, is still fresh on everyone's mind.
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Apr08
From The Nation--Curbing Big Money
Public Campaign President and CEO Nick Nyhart joined with David Donnelly, national campaigns director for Public Campaign Action Fund, in writing the following the piece that will appear in the April 25th edition of The Nation magazine. The full article is available on their website (if you're a subscriber), or you can read it below.
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Aug02