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Common Cause Ohio Briefing Spotlights Flaws in Redistricting Bill
Common Cause Ohio organized a press briefing last week to discuss proposed changes to Ohio’s system of legislative redistricting.
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Newly Released Emails Detail Strategy for Illegal Gerrymandering in Florida
The Florida Supreme Court ordered the release of 528 pages of emails sent between partisan political consultants and state officials that detailed a strategy for illegally gerrymandering the state’s congressional districts.
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Obama Actions on Immigration are Lawful, Limited, and Restrained — and Advance Democracy
President Obama’s executive actions on immigration are lawful, limited and restrained steps toward fixing an immigration system that is demonstrably broken, unjust and unenforceable. They attempt to make good on the promise of a democracy founded by immigrants. They will allow millions of families to emerge from the shadows and become full participants in our economy and our society, and build on the fundamentally American impulse and democratic principle of welcoming new immigrants and appreciating their contributions to our culture...
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Abolishing the filibuster, one year later
It's freezing in Washington this week, but it's not the nuclear winter some Republican senators predicted one year ago today.
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Chris Christie Is Dancing In the Dark Money
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, has a strange plan for campaign finance reform. In a recent radio interview, Chris Christie called for complete disclosure of campaign contributions and the end of secret dark money groups.
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Common Cause Ohio Testifies Today in Ohio General Assembly on Redistricting Proposals
Following Senate Session today, Ann Henkener of the League of Women Voters of Ohio and Sam Gresham of Common Cause Ohio will be testifying before the Ohio House Policy and Legislative Oversight Committee about proposed redistricting reform proposals House Joint Resolutions 11 and 12.
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More Corporations Distance Themselves from ALEC
Over the last few months major companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, International Paper, Occidental Petroleum, News Corp, Overstock.com, SAP America, and AOL have all announced they have left or were leaving the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the secretive group that brings state politicians and corporate lobbyists behind closed doors to rewrite our laws.
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A Pipeline Full of Special Interest Money
As the U.S. Senate votes on the Keystone XL pipeline today, a new Common Cause analysis reveals that special interest money is what’s really driving the debate.
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Common Cause Maryland Forum Makes the Case for Ending Gerrymandering
The Tame the Gerrymander Coalition, including Common Cause Maryland, featured U.S. Rep. John Delaney, Maryland Del. Aisha Braveboy, and Common Cause National Redistricting Coordinator Dan Vicuna at a forum to discuss solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering.
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Common Cause Scores Florida Supreme Court Victory on Redistricting Transparency
The Florida Supreme Court ruled this week that documents detailing an unlawful redistricting collaboration between Florida legislators and a partisan political consultant must be released to the public.
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John Oliver on Net Neutrality
Everyone's talking about net neutrality this week, so we thought we'd take a look back to the hilarious send-up John Oliver did of the issue last summer. He explains what's going on, tells us what's at stake, and urges hordes of internet commenters to direct their outrage towards the FCC's public comment process.
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Net Neutrality Foes Spent Millions In 2014
By now you have probably heard of “net neutrality.” Net neutrality, which would guarantee everyone equal access to the open internet, is a policy the Federal Communications Commission is currently considering and is supported by 81% of Americans, including a majority of Republicans.
