Why Maine Should Value Clean Elections

Submitted by mrober@publicampaign.org on Jan 31, 2012

With advocates currently working to bolster the Maine Clean Elections system, many have taken the opportunity to speak out about the value and success of the system.

Wells Lyons, an attorney in Portland, has an article in the Portland Daily Sun today defending the system and arguing the benefits of Clean Elections are far-reaching:

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Clips Round-up for 1/27/12

Submitted by mrober@publicampaign.org on Jan 27, 2012

Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Statement by the press secretary on legislation to ban insider trading by members of Congress
From the White House on insider trading legislation for Congress. And the Senate will vote on it.

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President Obama's 2012 SOTU: We must address corrosive influence of money in politics

Submitted by Adam Smith on Jan 25, 2012

In his State of the Union speech tonight, President Obama will say (from prepared remarks): Some of this has to do with the corrosive influence of money in politics.

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Clips Round-up for 1/23/12

Submitted by mrober@publicampaign.org on Jan 23, 2012

Important tidbit from the New York Times preview of the State of the Union: "Mr. Obama will also propose political changes, perhaps in campaign finance. Those would tap the sentiment of many Americans, expressed among both Tea Party and Occupy protesters on the political right and left, that the system is rigged against them in favor of a privileged few."

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