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Tom Craddick Laundered Money through Jobs PAC to House Dems, Texans for Public Justice files in complaint

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged campaign, campaign contributions, Campaign Finance, clean elections texas, Fair Elections Now Act, public financing, texans for public justice on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Tom Craddick, the former Speaker of the Texas House and currently a Republican incumbent Texas House Member, has given money to his favorite incumbent Democratic Representatives. So, what’s the problem? Craddick laundered the money through a PAC instead of a direct contribution. In response, Texans for Public Justice, a political advocacy group, has filed a [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Obama’s Mistake on Public Financing (and how McCain is skirting the law, too)

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, John McCain, public financing on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today’s New York Times reported that life is not all peaches and cream for the Obama campaign after they opted out of the presidential public financing system. (See Article “Straining to Reach Goal, Obama Presses Donors“) Pushing a fund-raiser later this month, a finance staff member sent a sharply worded note last week to Illinois [...]

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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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