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Clips Round-Up 3/19

Submitted by Andrew Alderman on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 14:06

The New York Times editorializes this morning on judicial public financing in West Virginia. State Polling Poll pans big donors’ election influence  Coverage in Rep. Bill Owens’ (D-NY) district of the polling.  Citizens United/Fair Elections Dingell: Citizens United ruling was an “abomination”  On MNSBC, Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) said: “Is there too much money in politics? Absolutely. Did the recent action of the Supreme Court allowing corporate contribution to campaign, campaigns, was that a good thing? Absolutely not. It was an abomination.” Wis. Group stop using Citizens United name  The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign decided to switch the name of their group in response to Citizens United's legal intimidation. Here’s their full response.Congress Dysfunctional, Corrupt, Selfish  A new poll from the Pew Institute shows that when asked to offer one word for Congress, the top results are dysfunctional, corrupt, and self-serving. House sends resolution on PMA probe back to ethics, by Jennifer YachninRep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) pushed for a resolution that would force the ethics committee to provide more details on the PMA Lobbying Firm investigation – but the house voted to send it back to committee.

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