super PAC
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Sep27
Clips Round-up for 9/27/11
Have you seen the documentary, Priceless, yet? It's good. You should. And you should snag a copy from Habitat Media here: http://www.habitatmedia.org/store.html. It's been racking up wins on the festival circuit.
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
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Sep06
Clips Round-up for 9/6/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Beware the super PAC
A Washington Post editorial: "Whether the right approach is to press for tighter regulations or new legislation, this much is clear: The growth of the super PAC threatens to make limits on campaign contributions a mere fig leaf barely covering the reality of outsize checks — for which the candidates are undoubtedly grateful to the donor."
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Aug31
Clips Round-up for 8/31/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Full disclosure needed
On the need for disclosure, following the heavy spending in the Wisconsin recall campaigns. "If negative campaigning is the rule of the campaign trail, don't the citizens of the state have a right to know who is shoveling all that horse patooie? Of course they do."
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Aug23
Clips Round-up for 8/23/11
Congress/2012
Super Disclose Them
The New York Times wants transparency for the supercommittee and mentions Brennan Center's call for disclosure of spending by outside groups. But, they need to go further!
Open debt talks are a super idea
The Nashua Telegraph wants transparency too.
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Aug19
Clips Round-up for 8/19/11
Fair Elections/Campaign Finance
Maine Ethics Commission Seeks Clean Election Law Fix
On the proposed solutions: "We can't have a publicly-funded system that sort of, on-purpose, keeps the candidates kind of barefoot and pregnant," said Allison Smith, the co-president of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections.
A Recusal Required -
Aug08
Clips Round-up 8/8/2011
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
I.R.S. handling of donations draws ire of both parties.
A "group of four anonymous political donors is accusing the [I.R.S.] of playing politics on behalf of those Republicans and demanding that it make a decision immediately about whether the gift tax applies to donations to advocacy groups or not."
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Aug05
Clips Round-up for 8/5/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Edwards donor pleads guilty to illegal donations -
Aug03
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Aug02
Clips Round-up for 8/2/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Rejection in Renzi case might kick it -
Aug01
Clips Round-up for 8/1/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Editorial: Why is Congress tied up in knots?
This Sacramento Bee editorial provides a few solutions to our broken Congress. One includes providing more campaign finance transparency--particularly by requiring Senators to file reports electronically