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Alice-in-Wonderland Approach to Transparency
Democracy 21 President Challenges Absurd Attacks by Chamber of Commerce Lobbyist on Campaign Finance Disclosure as an “Alice-in Wonderland” Approach to Transparency (Democracy 21, Wednesday, April...
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Score One for Clean Elections
Connecticut’s Citizens’ Election Program was a big winner yesterday. The Supreme Court declined to review a complaint brought by the Green Party against Connecticut’s public financing law. In Green...
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How Foreign Money Can Find Its Way Into Political Campaigns
It seems the American system of political influence is pretty easy to understand, no matter where you come from. “Our influence system works with lobbyists using campaign contributions as a means of...
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Young Guns Getting Fully Loaded for 2012
“Instead of focusing on putting more Americans back to work, Eric Cantor is focused on raising corporate special interest cash in order to elect more extremists and advance his own political future.”...
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The Brennan Center and Democracy 21 offer a new plan to counter big money and super PAC spending in our campaign finance system. The plan lays out how a small donor matching program would encourage a...
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Taking on the IRS — for the right reason
A tip of the hat to Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-MD, who along with some of Common Cause’s allies in the campaign finance reform community is making a valiant effort to re-focus and maybe re-energize the...
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