Campaign Finance Reform

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Let's Stop Pretending: Obama's Record Is Not Progressive

Rupert Russell | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Campaign Finance Reform, Progressives, Health Care Reform, Matt Bai, Grover Norquist, Libertarian, Melissa Bean, Health Care, Barack Obama, Jane Hamsher, Campaign Finance, Glass-Steagall, House Financial Services Committee, Apologism, Politics News

Soon every American will be forced to purchase private insurance at several times the cost (and rising) of their counter-parts in developed world.

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Barack's Freshman Year

Michael Sigman | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Campaign Finance Reform, LA Weekly, Health Care Reform, Village Voice, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Wall Street, Rolling Stone, Big Pharma, Obama First Year, Politics News

What makes a leader successful -- contrary to the expectations of our instant gratification culture -- isn't measurable by initial moves and events, and certainly not only by early results.

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Getting Corporate Money Out of Politics Must Become Our #1 Priority

Dave Johnson | Posted 12.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Influence Buying, Bribery, Campaign Finance Reform, Corporatism, Politics News

After all the promises for change, it remains illegal for us to buy into Medicare because this would interfere with the stream of money flowing from all of us to a few already-wealthy executives and owners.

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Why 60 Senate Votes? Why Should 10% Veto 90%?

Mark Green | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Connecticut Compromise, Filibuster, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Democracy, Health Care, U. S. Senate, Campaign Finance Reform, Reconciliation, Politics News

Who elected Joe Lieberman the president of health care? Abuse of the filibuster and special interest money may still combine to stop health care reform and stop America from becoming a 21st century society.

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Revised Campaign Finance Reform Bill Awaits Quinn's Signature

Chicago Sun-Times | DAVE McKINNEY | Posted 10.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Pat-Quinn-Campaign-Finance-Reform, Illinois Campaign Finance Reform, Campaign Finance Reform, Pat Quinn, Illinois Campaign Donations, Illinois Campaign Contribution Limits, Campaign Finance, Chicago News

The Illinois Senate put the finishing touch on a major campaign-finance package by voting today to send the legislation that caps contributions to Gov...

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Madigan's Campaign Finance Reform Bill Passes House

Chicago Tribune | Ray Long and Monique Garcia | Posted 10.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Pat Quinn, Campaign Finance Reform, Illinois Campaign Finance Reform, Rod Blagojevich, Michael Madigan, Chicago News

With time running out, the Illinois House late tonight approved a measure that for the first time would put major restrictions on how politicians pay ...

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A New Crossover Hit: "Break Up the Big Banks"

George Goehl | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Congress, Campaign Finance Reform, Wall Street, Showdown in Chicago, Michael Moore, Financial Reform, Too Big to Fail, Mortgage Crisis, Obama Administration, Financial Crisis, Alan Greenspan, Sheila Bair, Bankers, Banking Regulation, Banks, Banking Crisis, Business News

We've reached an incredible moment when Alan Greenspan, Michael Moore, FDIC head Sheila Bair and Elizabeth Warren are all singing the same tune: calling for breaking up the big banks.

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Longmont Elections Show Need for Transparency

Michael D. Brown | Posted 10.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Transparency, Campaign Finance Reform, Longmont-Election-Committee, Mccain-Feingold, Election Reform, Denver News

Drama is playing out in Longmont, where campaign laws thought to prevent corruption by limiting expenditures and contributions is instead corrupting free speech.

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Step Up to Mike's Challenge

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Roger and Me, Barbara Boxer, Fair Elections Now Act, Houses, Lobbyists, Vermont, Connecticut, Jobs, Fahrenheit 9/11, Dianne Feinstein, Contributors, Arizona, California, Capitalism: A Love Story, New Mexico, New Jersey, Clean Money, Maine, Senator Barbara Boxer, iPhone App, Foreclosure, Congressman Henry Waxman, North Carolina, California Fair Elections, Participatory Democracy, S. 752, H.R. 1826, Campaign Finance, Congress, Democracy, Henry Waxman, Democrats, Sicko, Insurers, Corporations, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Corporate Greed, Medical Treatment, Iphone, Banks, Michael Moore, Republicans, Senate, Campaign Finance Reform, Healthcare, Fena, Hardball, Anderson Cooper, Msnbc, Chris Matthews, Cnn, Politics News

Despite all we've learned from Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger and Me, we continue to take abuse. Our pal Mike is now asking us to act.

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Campaign Finance Laws Could Soon Be Altered

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lobbyblog, Campaign Finance, Court Decision Campaign Finance, Court Decision FEC, Court Decision Unlimited Donations, Campaign Finance Reform, Politics News

Politico reports that a series of court decisions could fundamentally alter the way elections are funded -- even allowing special interests, corporati...

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In Washington, the Revolving Door Is Hazardous to Your Health

Bill Moyers | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Liz Fowler, Campaign Finance Reform, Michelle Easton, Senate Finance Committee, David Graham Phillips, Public Option, Lobbying, Health Care Reform, Revolving Door, Washington DC, Max Baucus, Barack Obama, Wellpoint, Politics News

You can't tell the players without a scorecard in the old Washington shell game. Lobbyist out, lobbyist in. They've been plowing this ground for years, and the soil has never been so fertile.

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A New Social Movement

Jay Mandle | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Justice, Progressive Movement, Activism, Campaign Finance, FECA, Center for Responsive Politics, BCRA, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance Reform, Politics News

Progressives have typically avoided addressing the way the electoral system is financed. They have concentrated on the outcome of politics, but not on the political process.

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Campaign Finance Reform Hits Snag

Wall Street Journal | DOUGLAS BELKIN | Posted 10.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Campaign Finance Reform, Campaign Finance Reform, Pat Quinn, Rod Blagojevich, Illinois Campaign Contribution Limits, Change Illinois, Campaign Finance, Michael Madigan, Chicago News

Nearly a year after former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested and accused of running state government as a criminal enterprise, legislators ha...

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Miracle On Pennsylvania Avenue

Suzanne Langlois | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Health Insurance Reform, Public Option, Barack Obama, Health Care Protests, Washington, Campaign Finance Reform, Public Option Vote, Pennsylvania Avenue, Politics News

Are we out of time? Has the health care reform, promised to us by Barack Obama, died the death of a thousand paper cuts?

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Let Corporations Be (Just) Corporations

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Meg Whitman, John McCain, Campaign Finance Reform, Carly Fiorina, Jerry Brown, Politics News

Corporations are dictatorships, with everyone reporting to the CEO. Governments are vast cooperative bodies with legislatures, courts and other institutions without which executives can't get much done.

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Wall Street and Washington Dissing Main Street, One Year Later

Don McNay | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Anniversary of Financial Meltdown, Bailout, 000 Commode, $35, American Association of Justice, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Washington Elites, American College, Campaign Finance Reform, Michael Jackson, Lottery, Small Business, President Obama, Mitch McConnell, Death Panels, Kentuckian, Kentucky, Structured Settlements, Taylor Swift, Vanderbilt University, Eastern Kentucky University, Million Dollar Round Table, Personal Finance, Housing Crisis, Lottery Winners, Robert Kaiser, Business News

Wall Street and Washington don't understand what is happening on Main Street. The people in Washington are pushing the line that they saved us from "something even worse." Like what?

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Why Corporations Shouldn't Play in Elections

Adam Lioz | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Money in Politics, Citizens United, Corporations, Campaign Finance Reform, Campaign Finance, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News

Allowing huge corporations or wealthy tycoons to purchase political outcomes makes a mockery of the principle behind one person, one vote.

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As Supreme Court Hears Landmark Campaign Finance Case, Public Funding Solution is Missing

Bob Kerrey | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Public Funding, Campaign Finance Reform, Congress, Political Science, Federal Election Commission, Free Speech, Fec, First Amendment, US Senate, Fair Elections Now Act, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

When campaign finance legislation levels up rather than limits down political speech, the result is more candidates from diverse backgrounds competing for support. Call it the ''more speech'' solution.

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"Capitolism": A Race between Congressional Corruption and the Most Massive Citizen Involvement in U.S. Legislative History

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Corporate Money, Federal Corruption, Consumer Spending, Kentucky, Capitalism, John Authers, John Yarmuth, Healthcare Costs, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Representative Yarmuth, Congressman Yarmuth, Louisville, Special Agent Christiansen, Big Money, Ways and Means Committee, 70 % of GDP, Legal Corruption, Mad as Hell Doctors' Cross Country Tour, Carl Christiansen, Capitolism, Insurance Reform, Rachel Newton, Legalized Corruption, Health Care, Campaign Finance Reform, Fbi, Healthcare, Co-Pay, Politics News

All of the sudden five-year increase in consumer spending, which primed the U.S. economy for the fall, can be attributed to health care costs.

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Mayor Bloomberg and the Arrogance of Power

Jesse Larner | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Christine Quinn, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, City Council, Campaign Finance Reform, Term Limits, Darlene Mealy, 2008 Election, New York, Mayoral Election, New York News

All of Michael Bloomberg's defensiveness, and the egotism that clearly lurks beneath it, makes me wonder just why the Mayor really does want to hold onto the office.

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Coming Soon to a Democracy Near You ...

Michael Winship | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, John McCain, Campaign Finance Reform, Federal Election Commission, Hillary the Movie, Campaign Legal Center, Floyd Abrams. Trevor Potter, Hillary Clinton, Citizens United, Mccain-Feingold, Politics News

Depending on the outcome of a special Supreme Court hearing, Hillary: The Movie could unleash a new torrent of cash flooding into campaigns from big business.

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Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?

Larry Flynt | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Campaign Finance Reform, Wall Street, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Larry Flynt Bailout, Larry Flynt, Campaign Finance, Economy, Business News

You hear it more and more, sometimes in code, sometimes spelled out. We have reached the tipping point. The enemy has been identified. It's not left versus right in America. It's democracy versus greed.

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Sotomayor Expected To Favor Campaign Finance Restrictions In Upcoming Case

Washington Independent | Daphne Eviatar | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Campaign Finance Reform, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary the Movie, David Souter, Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News

The upcoming re-argument of the case of Citizens United v. FEC, challenging corporate contributions to the financing of Hillary: The Movie, is raising...

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Sue 'Em Back to the Stone Age: The RNC Files Suit to Reverse the Small Donor Revolution

Monica Youn | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Brennan Center, Campaign Finance Reform, Rnc, Small Donor Revolution, McCain Feingold, Citizens United, Obama Small Donors, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, Campaign Finance, Politics News

Last week, a panel of the D.C. federal court heard arguments in a case where the RNC is seeking to turn back the clock to a time before Obama's "small-donor revolution."

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