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Video Climbing the Charts
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 4:26pm.
Front page on the Huffington Post right now is this piece by Public Campaign's Nancy Watzman about the video question on Fair and Clean Elections which we posted to 10Questions and which is steadily climbing the list. Click through to view the video and give it a thumbs up -- the more votes we get the better our chances of getting our presidential candidates on record in support of Fair Elections.
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Return to Bundler
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 4:54pm.
Bundling goes beyond the Beltway. This story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which features commentary from Public Campaign's Nick Nyhart looks at the end run around contribution limits by one very wealthy supporter of St. Louis mayor Francis Slay.
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Knowing Who's In Your Tent
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 4:11pm.
An Illinois pension scandal that touched Barack Obama via a political supporter of his may also touch Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign as this AP story reveals. The article quotes Public Campaign's David Donnelly on the liability candidates face by having to recruit big donors who may have backgrounds that can cast aspersion on the campaign.
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Tough Spot
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Fri, 04/20/2007 - 3:53pm.
Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged he wouldn't take money from federal lobbyists in his bid for the White House, a promise that puts him in a tough spot: just who qualifies as a lobbyist, and what qualifies as lobbyist money? Moreover, with the fundraising wars just beginning, how do you mount a serious campaign for the Presidency while promising to change the system?
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Williams and Williams
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Mon, 04/16/2007 - 2:35pm.
Support for full public financing of elections comes from quite different parts of the blogosphere today: first, Armstrong Williams writing on Townhall argues "Clean campaigns will reduce the power of elites by ending the new arms race for money, and bring back the soul of democracy by increasing the power of the people." Byron Williams, in his piece on Huffington Post, focuses on the Fair Elections Now Act, and how it can make public financing a reality in Congress.
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Bundled Up
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Mon, 04/16/2007 - 10:34am.
William Safire used his New York Times Magazine "On Language" column on Sunday to trace the evolution of the word "bundling" all the way from Dutch teenagers to George Bush, citing Public Campaign's Rick Bielke on the first use of the term to refer to the practice of skirting campaign contribution limits by getting big donors to solicit money from friends and associates for their candidate of choice.
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