Tag Archive | get money out
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 […]
Shareholders Get Political
All of the ruckus over political campaign contributions in the last couple of years is definitely resulting in more public awareness. Shareholders are even getting political now. A proxy advisory service, Institutional Shareholder Services, states that “Investors filed more than 100 resolutions this year asking companies to disclose what they spend on political advocacy. 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 […]
Insiders Versus Outsiders – Case Study of Obama
With the election campaigning in fifth gear, we are receiving a constant barrage of messages pitting democrats against republicans and vice versa. As American citizens, we need to be cognizant of the fact that these mouthpieces are not representing us. Because of the rhetoric surrounding the democratic campaign and the extraordinarily hypocritical commencement speech just […]
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 […]
U.S. Senate Constitution Subcommittee Hearing
July 17, 2012 is the date set for the hearing to examine pending constitutional proposals to remedy the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has asked Constitution Subcommittee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) to hold the hearing. A number of constitutional amendments have been introduced and will be examined […]
Dodd-Frank Compliance = Building Panama Canal Every Year
The quantity and complexity of financial reform into the Dodd-Frank bill simply is not necessary. Two years after the bill was signed into law, regulators have written only 185 of 400 new rules totaling 5,320 pages. The subcommittee on financial institutions and consumer credit predicts it will take the private sector some 24 million hours […]
