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Dec15
Clips Round-up for 12/15/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Occupy Denver to ask Bennett, Udall to support anti-Citizens United amendment
Spurred by a proposed new amendment that would challenge the idea that “corporations are people”, members of Occupy Denver have planned a march for Thursday to the officers of Sen. Michael Bennett (D) and Sen. Mark Udall (D) to ask them to support the amendment."
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Dec13
Clips Round-up for 12/13/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Limits on political donations invalidated
"A federal appeals court on Monday struck down a Wisconsin law limiting how much any one person can donate to independent political action groups."
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Dec09
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and How to Make a Vote Today Pay Off Tomorrow
Here's a recap of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's (PCAF) work from December 5 through December 9, 2011.
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Dec09
Clips Round-up for 12/9/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Public campaign financing will stop rule of wealthy
A letter in NY: "Only public campaign financing can preserve American democracy from the connivance of the very rich and the politically powerful in establishing plutocracy ... rule by the immensely wealthy. "
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Dec06
Clips Round-up for 12/6/11
"Failure to update the matching funds component of the law to reflect modern realities would marginalize voters by making the Legislature for sale to the highest bidder," the Times Record <http://www.timesrecord.com/articles/2011/12/05/opinion/editorials/doc4edd04d02d33c159554599.txt> in Maine editorializes on the state's Clean Elections system. Our David Donnelly, who ran the Clean Elections ballot initiative campaign, points out this was the first paper to endorse the plan back then.
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Dec01
Clips Round-up for 12/1/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Reform groups trying to preserve presidential public financing system
On the letter a lot of us sent up to the Hill opposing efforts to end presidential public financing
- And PCAF put out this statement yesterday saying the vote on this will be used for our electoral targeting decisions next year: http://campaignmoney.org/press-room/2011/11/30/watchdog-watching-presidential-public-financing-vote.
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Nov30
Clips Round-up for 11/30/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Legislative panel sputters on Clean Elections consensus
Ugh: A Maine House committee failed to come to a consensus yesterday to fix the Clean Elections program. They just removed the triggers.
- More here: http://www.pressherald.com/news/gop-may-get-last-word-on-clean-election-funds_2011-11-30.html
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Nov21
Clips Round-up 11/21/2011
If you missed it this weekend, Chris Hayes reported an amazing story about DC lobbying shop Clarke Lytle. The firm put a memo together highlighting how and why the American Bankers Association, one of their clients, should move to discredit the Occupy Wall Street protests.
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Nov10
Clips Round-up for 11/10/11
On Tuesday, ThinkProgress reported how Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) flew off the handle and yelled at a constituent that, "Don't blame banks, and don't blame the marketplace for the mess we're in right now! I am tired of hearing that crap!" Well, we're tired of hearing politicians do the bidding of Wall Street. I am tired of hearing THAT crap. So, we launched a new site: http://iamtiredofhearingthatcrap.tumblr.com/. What are you tired of hearing of?
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections