JAMES AHEARN
Campaign Finance Reform: The Problem and SolutionOur political system is corrupt. The people it elects routinely do things for the corpartions that paid for their campaign over the wishes of people who voted for them. At least part of this is procedural: running a campaign these days is ...
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March 24, 2009, may go down as a turning point in the history of the campaign-finance reform debate in America. On that day, in the course of oral argument before the Supreme Court in the case ofCitizens United v. Federal Election Commission, United States deputy solicitor general Malcolm ...
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Campaign Finance Reform in 2000 and 2003 The 1980s and 90s, saw several small reforms of campaign finance legislation. The next broad set of legislative changes occurred in 2000, when the federal Liberal government, helmed by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, enacted a new Canada Elections Act. ...
skip to main content campaign-finance documents going electric a survey of states shows that although the pace is slow, the idea is spreading. save save out of the political murk surrounding the issue of campaign-finance reform, a ray of digital sunlight is finally emerging, says a california...
The Supreme Court has directly addressed this question, in the foundational case for modern campaign finance law, Buckley v. Valeo (1976), which is still the law of the land. As the court stated then, bribery laws “deal with only the most blatant and specific attempts of those with money...
Campaign promises can create controversy, evoke emotions, and can tilt an election toward the candidate that either has the best promise ormarketsthe ideas the best. It would be ideal for all presidential candidates to just tell us that we will have to raise taxes and cut spending to make en...
Tag: campaign finance IA-02, IA-03: NRCC votes for Gettemy and Gibbons The National Republican Campaign Committee announced more moves in its “Young Guns” program today. Two of the districts affected are in Iowa. The NRCCadded Rob Gettemy to its list of “on the radar” candidates. ...