Austin Rally to Protest the Possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court Will Allow Corporations to Unleash Flood of Money Into Elections Court Is Considering Sweeping Away a Century’s Worth of Campaign Finance Principles WHAT: Rally to raise awareness about the U.S. Supreme Court re-hearing Wednesday of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The court has [...]
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Austin Rally Against Corporate Influence in Politics & US Supreme Court “Citizens United” Case
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged austin texas, Campaign Finance, citizens united, climate change, don't get rolled, Fair Elections, federal election commission, health care, Public Citizen, us supreme court on September 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
UPDATE: The Church of Money, Rod Blagojevich and Bill Richardson
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Bill Richardson, Blagojevich, Campaign Finance, corruption, Fair Elections, Fair Elections Now Act, money, politics, public financing, Roland Burris, scandal on August 27, 2009 | 9 Comments »
UPDATE: Bill Richardson was cleared of any wrongdoing in this fund raising scandal and we wanted to briefly comment on it and also resurrect this post, which to this day remains one of our most read blogs ever. As I commented in response to some of your reader’s comments below, the point was never to [...]
UPDATED: Grassroots vs Astroturf- the difference in citizen activism
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged ACCCE, ACES, API, astroturf, Balanced Energy choices, Big Oil, Campaign Finance, Citizen Power, climate change, Global Warming, Grass roots, grassroots politics, Lloyd Doggett, Public Citizen, Waxman-Markey bill on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: Greenpeace has just obtained an internal API memo detailing their astroturf plans. You can read the memo and Greenpeace’s reply here. Job “whale” done, Greenpeace! *** Most people have a good general conception of what a real grassroots movement looks like: citizens get outraged over some injustice or inequity and get organized and get [...]
Public Citizen Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Campaign Finance Reform Law
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged austin v michigan chamber of commerce, bcra, bipartisan campaign reform act, Campaign Finance, citizens united, Elections, george washington university law school, hillary: the movie, litigation, mcconnell v FEC, political action committees, publi ctizen, randy moss, roger witten, scott nelson, seth waxman, supreme court, wilmer culter pickering & dorr llp on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Overturning Campaign Finance Restrictions Would Allow Corporations to Dominate Elections WASHINGTON, D.C. – Public Citizen joined a team of other attorneys in submitting a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court today, urging the court to adhere to its precedents and reaffirm the longstanding principle that corporations may not engage in unfettered campaign spending. The [...]
Wall Street’s crisis shows need for Fair Elections
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged AIG, bailout, Campaign Finance, Fair Elections Now Act, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, wall street on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Make no mistake about it, we face an economic crisis of enormous proportions. But the rush to bail out Wall Street firms with a “hair on fire” urgency rings so hollow when you consider how much the American people have already gone through. Millions of people have lost their homes to foreclosures. Many are being [...]
Who’s paying for the Hookers and Blow?, pt 2
Posted in Campaign Finance, Consumers, tagged Campaign Finance, offshore drilling on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our cohorts at Citizenvox had this to say about the recent scandal breaking at the Department of the Interior. I think this follow up well what they wrote about the recent GOP and Dem conventions, asking “Who is paying for the Hookers and Blow?” And these are the people who will be put in charge [...]
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