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Jun29
Clips Round-up for 6/29/11
McComish/Campaign Finance/EtcJun28Clips Round-up for 6/28/11
Other McComish stories:As you know, the Supreme Court released its decision yesterday throwing out the trigger fund provision of the Arizona Clean Elections Act. We have compiled a fairly extensive list of statements from organizations, elected officials, news, and other reactions to the decision. We'll continue to update it: http://publicampaign.org/mccomishnews.
- Arizona
- campaign finance
- Clips
- Common Cause
- Connecticut
- Fair Elections Now Act
- florida
- gop
- Harry Reid
- Koch Brothers
- maine
- maine clean elections
- matching funds
- McComish v. Bennett
- Nancy Pelosi
- New Jersey
- north carolina
- PACs
- President Obama
- public campaign
- Rod Blagojevich
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Wall Street
Jun27Clips Round-up for 6/27/11
Campaign Finance/Fair ElectionsThe Maine legislature ended without repealing gubernatorial Clean Elections.
Jun23Clips Round-up for 6/23/11
Jun21Clips Round-up for 6/21/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections"Stephen Colbert is assuring the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that the dollar bills he collected in exchange for handshakes outside of their building last month went to him and not the 'super PAC' he's hoping to form."
Jun20Clips Round-up for 6/20/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections"The FEC this week sent a letter demanding Crossroads GPS, the Karl Rove-backed nonprofit that pumped millions of dollars in anonymous donations into last year's Congressional campaigns, disclose its contributors. The request appears unlikely to be honored but it could signal an effort to tighten regulations on controversial third-party groups."
Jun17Clips Round-up for 6/17/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Feds Appeal Judge’s Ruling on Campaign Finance Law
“Federal prosecutors on Thursday appealed a judge’s ruling that prompted howls of protest from campaign-finance reform advocates when he declared the law that bans corporate contributions to federal candidates is unconstitutional.”
Jun16Clips 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.”
Jun13Clips Round-up for 6/13/11
Campaign Finance/Fair ElectionsA great profile on Common Cause Minnesota's Mike Dean and the accountability campaign against Target and its political spending.May26Clips Round-up for 5/26/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Fight harder, Dems
Brent Budowsky defends Democrats getting in on the secret money game for 2012: "It is profoundly ironic, but profoundly true, that large and undisclosed donations that we might disapprove of, in theory, are the best way to eliminate them, in practice."