Via ConnPIRG Democracy has at its heart a basic promise: citizens have an equal voice in deciding who represents them. This promise went unfulfilled again in 2014. Large donors accounted for the vast majority of all individual federal election contributions…
Read MoreVia Bloomberg Politics Seventy-two years and 16 days have passed since Election Day, 1942. Back then, the country had plunged into World War II, millions of drafted citizens were fighting abroad, and African Americans in the South, though counted as eligible…
Read MoreVia The Huffington Post Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) is under scrutiny for accepting what potentially could be considered illegal campaign cash from financial firms that manage the city’s pension funds. On Tuesday, three city councilmen (one of whom is…
Read MoreVia Bloomberg Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel built his political career raising money for Democratic candidates, with connections to Wall Street that helped finance his own election victories and drew an unwanted moniker: “Mayor 1%.” Three months before the former investment…
Read MoreVia The Washington Post The O’Malley administration’s attempt to buy a Maryland farm for $2.8 million and lease it to a campaign donor for a dollar a year raises an ethical red flag [“Criticized land deal dropped,” Metro, Nov. 13]….
Read MoreVia Huffington Post WASHINGTON — Midterm voters boosted Republican power in Arkansas by electing all Republicans to statewide office, enhancing the party’s control of the state legislature and sending Rep. Tom Cotton (R) to Washington as their next senator. At…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun-Times A Chicago election official has been fired in the aftermath of a contentious election that has resulted in a criminal probe of disruptive robocalls and complaints about “irregularities” in handling ballots in the state treasurer’s race. A…
Read MoreVia The Huffington Post Election Day 2014 is over. The winners have been declared. But the true loser has not. That loser is democracy. For the past week — and undoubtedly for weeks to come — story after story will…
Read MoreVia Bloomberg Politics Winning U.S. Senate candidates got a nice boost from groups that don’t fully disclose their contributors. In 10 key Senate contests, the winners benefited from $127 million in outside help from such organizations, according to a report from…
Read MoreVia The Nation There’s a powerful solution for disclosing the secret-money sloshing around in our political system. It does not require an act of Congress or action from any of the effectively toothless campaign-finance watchdogs, like the Federal Election Commission….
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