Ang dating FCC Commissioner at Common Cause Special Adviser na si Michael Copps ay nagbahagi ng kanyang pananaw sa kahalagahan ng pagpapanumbalik ng netong neutralidad: “Kung hindi ako nasa labas ng bansa ngayon, ako ay personal na nasa FCC na tumatalon-talon, sumasaludo sa karamihan para sa muling pagtatayo. ang network neutrality rules na napakalokong inalis ng nakaraang Commission.”

Ang Copps ay naging isang matibay na tagapagtaguyod para sa isang bukas na Internet sa loob ng higit sa dalawang dekada, na nagbibigay-diin na ang mga ibinalik na panuntunan ay hindi lamang katamtaman ngunit dati ay...

“We’re going guns blazing for (public) campaign financing,” said Camron Hurt, program director for Common Cause Hawaii, calling it the organization’s top legislative priority.

Common Cause won’t be alone. The State Campaign Spending Commission also plans to seek expansion of public financing of campaigns.

Common Cause and the Center for Media and Democracy have been at the forefront of sounding the alarm and I’ve hot-linked their names to their most recent articles about the work they’re doing to try to stop the billionaire machine devoted to rewriting our Constitution.

Please check them out, get on their mailing lists, and spread the word. This is one of those things that Republicans on the Court could use to seemingly spring out of nowhere and bring down our democracy once and for all.

“Having fair maps makes elected politicians responsive to the needs and wants of the people by having elections where voters make the calls,” Aunna Dennis, executive director of Common Cause Georgia, said following Tuesday’s ruling. “We deserve better, and the law demands better, than the current voting maps that prevent Georgia’s communities on the margins of society from having a meaningful say in the halls of Congress.”

“Either way, we’re screwed,” warned Jay Heck, the executive director of the good-government group Common Cause’s Wisconsin chapter.

When it comes to paying back the government for travel, “it’s always somewhat of an opaque process for how it’s reimbursed,” said Aaron Scherb, senior director of legislative affairs at the watchdog group Common Cause. “It’s a little bit more of an art than a science.”