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Mar22
Clips Round-up for 3/22/13
Check out my Skype interview with Hawaii State Rep. Della Au Belatti, the lead sponsor of a small donor public financing system currently making its way through the legislature. She's great. You should watch it.
Mar21Clips Round-up for 3/21/13
Are you in Connecticut? Then join Public Campaign's Nick Nyhart, Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.) and Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn.), and Common Cause's Karen Hobert Flynn on Tuesday in Farmington for a community forum on money in politics and policies to raise the voices of everyday people in our political process. Details.
Mar20Clips Round-up for 3/20/13
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Mother Jones: Sen. Carl Levin plans to grill the IRS over dark money
Andy Kroll on Levin's interview with Joe Nocera and talk of 501c4s: "Finally, someone in power plans to grill the IRS on why it is allowing hundreds of millions of dollars in secret money to flow through supposedly nonpartisan 'social welfare organizations' and into our elections."Mar19Clips Round-up for 3/19/13
Worth noting: The Hawaii Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing today at 4:05 pm eastern time on HB1481, a bill to create a public financing system for the state legislature. As we reported last week, the bill has already passed the House.
Mar18Clips Round-up for 3/18/13
A great AP story about the battle for Fair Elections in New York. Michael Kink: "National progressive groups would like to see New York as a national model. I think it fits neatly into the governor's goals of cleaning up Albany and also showing New York can take a leadership role."
Mar15Clips Round-up for 3/15/13
Good news in New Mexico! Thanks to the hard work of Common Cause New Mexico, the state legislature has passed legislation to update the public financing system for Public Regulation Commission and judicial elections. The legislation is a response to the Supreme Court's Arizona Free Enterprise System and adds a matching fund system similar to the Fair Elections Now Act proposed in Congress.
Mar14Clips Round-up for 3/14/13
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
CNY News: Cuomo urges citizens to fight for Fair Elections during telephone town hall meeting
"Advocates heard Governor Andrew Cuomo make a call to action Monday night for grassroots organizations and supporters to fight for fair elections this legislative session."Mar13Clips Round-up for 3/13/13
Common Cause's Lessons of Watergate conference starts today at the Press Club in DC. If you can't make it, there's a livestream.
Mar11Clips Round-up for 3/11/13
Support for Fair Elections reform in New York State continues to grow, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released this morning. By a nearly two-to-one margin, 61 percent of voters support a small donor driven system of public financing in the state, with only 33 percent in opposition.
Mar08Clips Round-up for 3/8/13
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) will be in New York City today to speak at a CED event on, "The Role of Money in Politics in New York State: Promoting Small Dollar Democracy." If you're in the city, check it out! On Monday, he'll do a tele-townhall with grassroots activists on the campaign to pass Fair Elections.