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FCC Calls for Political Ad Disclosure
Politicians have learned to harness every form of technology to manipulate voters, but none are more visible than ads on TV. For many voters who haven't had time to do their own research, these ads may be the only information they have as they head to the polls.
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Hawaii Makes Strides in Election Participation
Hawaii is making strides toward greater participation in their elections. In an effort to combat the state’s current low voter turnout and expand access to the ballot box, Governor Neil Abercrombie has signed a bill allowing voters to register at absentee polling places beginning in 2016, paving the way for Election Day registration to begin in 2018.
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What We’re Reading, Week Ending June 27
This week – MA SWAT teams, Mayday PAC, disclosure, and executive power
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Common Cause, Students Press Sallie Mae to Disclose All Lobbying
Common Cause and other public interest groups called on student loan giant Sallie Mae today to make detailed financial disclosures of its lobbying activity.
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Defending The People’s Pledge
Does the Pledge keep money out of politics? Yes!
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Koch-backed Groups Linked to Scalia Trip, Speech Last Summer
Minutes after a lawyers’ group funded in part by industrialists Charles and David Koch welcomed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for a luncheon speech last August, another Koch-backed entity led a “stop government spending” rally in the same Montana hotel, a Common Cause analysis of Scalia’s annual financial disclosure report indicates
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Common Cause Hawaii welcomes four new board members
We are so excited to bring on four talented new board members to our team at Common Cause Hawaii!
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Walker Documents Strengthen Case for Campaign Finance Reform
New evidence of coordination between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and groups supporting him strengthens case for campaign finance reform.
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Newly Released Documents Put Scott Walker in the Hot Seat
Documents unsealed Thursday by a federal appeals court in Chicago suggest that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign in the 2012 recall election worked hand-in-glove – perhaps illegally – with special interest groups.
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Peeking Under the Rock That Is ALEC
A powerful new documentary from Montana PBS, “Brought To You By ALEC,” looks under the rock that is the American Legislative Exchange Council — and what we see isn’t pretty.
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What We’re Reading This Week – 6/19/14
This week – redistricting, campaign finance, NSA surveillance, Comcast.
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Still A Lot To Do
Wow!—3.7 million comments for net neutrality and still counting. If the Inside the Beltway crowd thought this was not an issue all across America, they should be feeling disabused of that notion by now.
