Occupy Wall Street
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Nov18
Clips Round-up for 11/18/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Disenfranchise no more
Rick Hasen on voter ID laws, etc.
Congress/2012
Private Prisons industry: Increasing incarcerations, maximizing profits, and corrupting our democracy -
Nov14
Clips Round-up 11/14/2011
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
The Campaign Jungle
The NYT is not pleased with candidate super PACs: "The time has come for the Department of Justice to step in and pursue criminal complaints against the candidate PACs. Limits on spending used to prevent donations from becoming outright bribes, but now the limits are gone, and the path to corruption is clear."
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Nov09
Clips Round-up for 11/9/11
We were proud to stand hand-in-hand with our friends in the immigrant rights and labor communities last night to defeat Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070 and a leading opponent of the state's Clean Elections system. Here's Huffington Post on his loss: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/08/russell-pearce-recall-election-jerry-lewis_n_1083129.html. When you leave your voters behind, they're going to do the same to you.
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Nov04
Clips Round-up for 11/4/11
Fair Elections/Campaign Finance Reform
Unlimited Contributions is Not the Answer to Unlimited Contributions
Public Campaign President Nick Nyhart: -
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/. -
Oct14
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and Occupying the Week
Here's a recap of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's (PCAF) work from October 11 through October 14, 2011.
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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
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and Occupying Wall Street...and democracy
Here's a recap of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's (PCAF) work from October 3 through October 7, 2011.
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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