Voter Blog
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Apr26
Billionaires and 2012
Public Campaign Communications Director Adam Smith appeared on Current TV's War Room with Jennifer Granholm last night to discuss billionaire-backed super PACs and the 2012 election. Smith was joined by Republic Report's Lee Fang.
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Apr24
An Unlikely Coalition in New York Pushes Cuomo on Public Finance
Public Campaign Board Member Ilyse Hogue has a piece in The Nation today discussing the push for Fair Elections in New York. She notes that the coalition that has come together in support of the proposed reform is a unique and well-rounded collection of individuals.
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Apr24
Clips Round-up for 4/24/12
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Slate: Let John Edwards go! -
Apr23
Clips Round-up for 4/23/12
Important curtain-raiser in the Times over the weekend on ALEC, featuring the awesome work of our friends down the hall, Common Cause: "But a review of internal ALEC documents shows that [creating model bills] is only one facet of a sophisticated operation for shaping public policy at a state-by-state level.
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Apr23
Big Oil's First Quarter Donations
Through the beginning of 2012, as Washington debated high gas prices, the Keystone pipeline, and ending wasteful subsidies to highly profitable oil companies, Big Oil handed out big bucks to their preferred politicians.
With first quarter earnings reports set to be released this week, it’s important to look at the politicians oil companies are funding and what they might be getting in return.
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Apr20
Think Money in Politics is a Problem? You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
On Wednesday, House Democrats, including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and campaign finance reform champion Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) held a forum centered on the issue of money in politics. They showed they understood the abysmal state of how our nation’s elections our paid for — and heard grim testimony from experts that the “perfect storm of money in politics” in 2012 will only continue to get worse if we do not enact reform.
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Apr20
Public Campaign's Nick Nyhart and Citizen Action NY's Karen Scharff Talk Fair Elections on The Capitol Pressroom
It's been a busy week for the campaign to bring Fair Elections to New York. Public Campaign President Nick Nyhart, along with Citizen Action New York's Executive Director Karen Scharff appeared on the radio yesterday to talk about the major campaign to bring Fair Elections to state legislative races. You can listen to their appearance here.
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Apr20
Clips Round-up for 4/20/12
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
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Apr19
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Apr18
Momentum is Building in New York
On Monday, we reported that the New York Times editorial board urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) and the legislature to pass Fair Elections legislation. This morning, there are three more important stories on efforts there.
First, from the Associated Press, national organizations are engaging their New York activists on this issue: