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Today you have an important opportunity to take an essential first step to fight back against Citizens United and the deregulation of the campaign finance system. Click here to urge President Obama to clean house at the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Already in this important election year, new Super PACs are flooding elections with huge expenditures from [...] Kathy Stolz spoke on behalf of WV League of Women Voters at this press conference put together by Natalie Tennants office. The Supreme Court public financing pilot project would provide funding to participating candidates for the 2012 Supreme Court races. Supreme Court Public Financing Pilot Project Press Conference from SoS Natalie Tennant [...] In this year’s elections, secret money ran rampant. Corporations and unions were able to spend unlimited amounts, without having to disclose their expenditures, to support or oppose candidates. If we’re going to scrub our democracy clean with a strong dose of transparency that eliminates this kind of spending in our elections [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 23, 2010 Contact: Kelly Ceballos OBSTRUCTIONIST POLITICS PREVAILS OVER CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORMVoters on the Losing Side of Political GamesmanshipWashington, DC – The League of Women Voters of the U.S. issued the following statement by national League President Elisabeth MacNamara on the obstructionism that prevented the Senate from beginning debate on the DISCLOSE Act today. The DISCLOSE Act aims to restore transparency to U.S. elections after the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Elisabeth MacNamara, president of LWVUS, reports what happened in the Senate today: Today in Washington we fell short by just one vote in our continuing battle to pass the DISCLOSE Act, which would restore transparency to U.S. elections by requiring disclosure of corporate and union spending in candidate elections. She went on to say that we will not [...] Two brothers, Laird and Robin Monahan, are walking across the United States from San Francisco to focus attention on the Citizens United v. FEC decision, the issue of corporate personhood, and the need to amend the Constitution to say that corporations are not entitled to personhood rights, and money is not equivalent to free speech. They [...] Earlier this year the DISCLOSE Act failed to pass through the Senate. The legislation, which would restore transparency to U.S. elections by requiring disclosure of corporate and union spending in candidate elections, is expected to come up for a vote again this week. Your Senators could cast the deciding votes. Urge your Senators [...] |
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