Public disclosure forms released Wednesday show that Texas lawmakers have widely varying financial situations. In an OpenSecrets blog post, Tarini Parti breaks down how many members of Congress invest in media organizations. Parti explains that this could be a conflict of interest because many members have a “vested interest…in the performance of the same organizations [...]
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Disclosure Forms Show Texas Lawmakers Invest in Media While Others Are In Debt
Posted in Good Government, tagged blake farenthold, Disclosure Reports, Kenny Marchant, Lloyd Doggett, michael burgess, Michael McCaul, OpenSecrets, Washington Post, William Flores on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Austin Scores $4.8M in Stimulus Funds for Green Jobs Trainings
Posted in Energy, solar, tagged austin texas, green jobs, Lloyd Doggett, Public Citizen, San Antonio, solar, stimulus funds on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday, Rep. Lloyd Doggett announced that the city of Austin will receive $4.8 Million in stimulus funds to train 1,000 workers in energy efficiency and clean energy jobs. Workers will be trained for jobs at solar plants in Austin, San Antonio and surrounding cities and states, and but the trainings will prepare participants for [...]
Power to the People: The Fair Elections Now Act
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Arlen Spector, big money, campaign contributions, Campaign Finance, campaign finance reform, charlie gonzalez, clean elections texas, Dick Durbin, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Fair Elections, Fair Elections Now Act, FENA, Gene Green, John Larson, Lloyd Doggett, money, Shiela Jackson Lee, Silvestre Reyes, Solomon Ortiz, Walter Jones on December 2, 2009 | 8 Comments »
As early as the time of Socrates, people have identified money as a corruptive influence in politics, specifically in democracies. Elections now cost double and triple what they used to, which means more and more of our Senators’ and Representatives’ time is spent dialing for dollars. The average member of the House of Representatives will [...]
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 [...]
Austin Congressman Lloyd Doggett supports Fair Elections Now!
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Fair Elections Now Act, Lloyd Doggett, public financing on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We were ecstatic when we heard from Congressman Doggett’s office that he would be signing on as an original cosponsor of the Fair Elections Now Act, a bill which would create a public financing system for Congressional candidates. Public financing means that instead of spending hours a day raising money on the phone, our elected [...]
Sometimes your leaders listen: Lloyd Doggett and the Safe Markets Development Act
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, Austin, Carbon Dioxide, Clean Energy, climate change, congressman lloyd doggett, Global Warming, Lloyd Doggett, Waxman-Markey bill on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been disappointed by the process that the American Clean Energy and Security Act has gone through recently, so a few weeks ago I went to go see my Congressman during his “neighborhood office hours” (at the Randall’s at the corner of William Cannon and MoPac) and talk to him about climate change. Then this [...]
Too Much Fun this Week
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, Uncategorized, tagged americana, Austin, Austin Energy, Brewster McCracken, camp ben mcculloch, city forum, climate change, coal block, coal wars, earth day weekend, environmental justice, fighting goliath, focus the nation, green apple festival, hundred acre3s, Lloyd Doggett, old settler's music festival, PODER, Public Citizen, robert redford, Roger Duncan, ryan rittenhouse, salt lick pavilion, St. Edward's University, susana almanza, texas union, town hall, urban planning, will wynn on April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is too much fun going on in the next few days… I can’t handle it. I wish I could be multiple places at once… and influence climate change legislation by sheer will power.. and attach documents to e-mails telepathically. Ah well, if wishes were horses, I’d have gotten that pony when I was six. [...]
Green Jobs, Clean Power!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 81st Texas Legislative Session, alliance for a clean texas, California, clean jobs, climate change, denver museum of nature, Energy Efficiency, green power, Lloyd Doggett, mark strama, obama, Rodney Ellis, solar, state legislature, Texas, texas capitol, van jones, wind energy on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bright and early yesterday morning, US Representative Lloyd Doggett, State Senator Rodney Ellis, State Representative Mark Strama, and environmental and civil rights advocate Van Jones stood together to tout the Alliance for a Clean Texas’ Texas Energy Future: Clean Jobs, Green Power Conference. Rodney Ellis opened up the press conference, stating that this year’s legislative [...]
Update on Netroots Nation 08 Day 3: Gore, Doggett, Lessig, and Courage
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, tagged Al Gore, Global Warming, Lloyd Doggett, NN08, public financing, Renewables on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Public Citizen is a national sponsor of this year’s Netroots Nation conference, and as the Austin Texas office of Public Citizen is happy to play host. We’ve met so many great people and been in so many excellent meetings. We’re also proud that we launched this, our Texas blog, in concert with NN08. Today has [...]
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