Tag Archive | clean elections
Overturning Montana Law Facilitates Decline In Economic Opportunity
Although we are in the full swing of an election year and all focus is on who will win, please remember that the influence of money in politics is about something far more important than who wins the next election. Yes, in fact, there is something more important than who wins in November – the […]
Earmark Pigs Are Not Flying But Breeding Oligarchy
UPDATE: The ban on earmarks by the House in 2010 is proving difficult to uphold. Apparently the ban applied to passing legislation with earmarks and did not in any way apply to existing earmarks. Representative Harold Rogers, a Republican who is now the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, added an earmark to a 2009 […]
Most Americans think campaign money aids rich
This week, May 22-24, Reuters conducted a poll and found that seventy-five percent of Americans feel there is too much money in politics. Almost the same proportion – 76 percent – feel that the amount of money in elections has given rich people more influence than other Americans, the online survey found. “What we’re essentially […]
Campaign Finance Crisis Speech
The Campaign Legal Center represents the public interest in enforcement of campaign and media law. During this speech, Potter traces the evolution of the current campaign finance crisis and discusses an agenda to escape it if the political willpower can be mustered. The full text of the speech follows below: I am often asked how, after […]
Getting Money Out of Politics Is Not Partisan
Surprise! Not everyone has heard of the Citizens United 2010 Supreme Court decision. Research from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that 54% of registered voters say they have heard about the decision that allows corporations and individuals to spend as much money as they want on political advertising as […]
Is Government For Sale? Not In This Town!
A grassroots movement is coordinating an effort to pass resolutions through city and town councils and state legislatures that declare public support for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United during the week of June 11, 2012. The awareness generated about campaign financing and the need for reform that this initiative can achieve is fundamental […]
Election Campaigns Fuel Corruption in Congress
We already know that any elected official on local and national levels is required to accept money to pay for activities that will get him/her elected. But did you know that campaign contributions can legally be funneled through to directly and personally benefit the candidate? Even if the dependence on campaign contributions for election isn’t […]
