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Earth Day: 50 Years of Being In Common Cause With Our Environment
Earth Day and Common Cause turn 50 in 2020 and share more than an anniversary -- a deep and abiding commitment to public policy in the common good.
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Philadelphia Inquirer: How hard will it be to vote during the coronavirus? It depends on where you live.
“It frustrates me that voting rights are a partisan fight,” said Suzanne Almeida, acting executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania.
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Associated Press: Restrictions on In-Person Voting Raise Troubling Questions
“I really don’t buy the argument that it can’t be done safely, because grocery stores are open now, essential businesses are open right now,” said Sylvia Albert of Common Cause. “The businesses that are open now are considered essential, and voting is essential.”
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HuffPost: Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others
“A lot of people close to Donald Trump are getting rich off of his campaign,” said Paul Ryan, a campaign finance legal expert at the watchdog group Common Cause. “They don’t want donors to know that they’re getting rich. Because, at the end of the day, it’s donor money.”
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The Fulcrum: Meet the reformer: Kathay Feng, leading a long fight for a legacy group
For nearly 15 years at Common Cause, one of the country's oldest and most venerated democracy reform organizations, Kathay Feng has been focused intently on efforts to end partisan gerrymandering. After taking over the group's operation in California in 2005, she was at the heart of the lobbying and organizing effort behind creation of an independent redistricting commission in the most populous state. Since 2015 she has led all Common Cause's legal, legislative and ballot initiative redistricting efforts. The Cornell and UCLA Law School graduate has also fought for civil rights and against racial discrimination in Los Angeles. Her answers have been edited for clarity and length.
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Houston Chronicle: Who is in charge of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s plan to help to restart the Texas economy? A secret team of entrepreneurs led by a Dallas megadonor
Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas, a nonpartisan watchdog organization, said “with this much money flowing around the last thing you want is for it to all go to people who just happen to be politically well connected as opposed to people who are out of a job without health care or have their business shutting down.”
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Dallas Morning News: Texas voters who fear catching coronavirus can vote by mail, state judge rules
“Threatening to prosecute Texans who simply want to vote without endangering themselves, their families or their neighbors is just cruel,” said Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause, a nonpartisan government watchdog group. “Everyone who works on voting rights or elections in Texas, including the secretary of state, has said this is a piece of law that is not clear, hence the litigation, and the judge made what we believe is the right call today.”
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Newsweek: HOW THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS FORCING YOUR STATE TO MAKE IT EASIER TO VOTE
"I think this pandemic will force a national conversation about making sure that all eligible voters can have their voices heard," said Aaron Scherb, director of legislative affairs at the nonpartisan government watchdog Common Cause. "Hopefully some of these reforms won't be temporary ones but permanent ones that will last after this pandemic."
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Boston Globe: Republicans fight expanded mail-in voting as coronavirus makes in-person elections dangerous
“If states around the country do not alter the current election procedures, they will be the next Wisconsin,” said Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections at the public interest watchdog group Common Cause. “This has now turned into a political fight.”
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New York Times: Voting by Mail Could Be What States Need. But Can They Pull It Off?
“As this becomes more partisan, each political party is going to go to its corner,” said Sylvia Albert, the director of voting and elections for Common Cause, a leading voting rights advocate. “But there’s a way to find the middle. “We have to get the ball moving now,” she added, “or Wisconsin is going to be what November looks like everywhere.”