Below is letter sent today by Democracy 21 to the Senate, urging Senators to vote for the Leahy-Cornyn “Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act” amendment to be offered to the “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act” or STOCK Act. Reform groups have sent several letters to Congress in the past in support of the STOCK Act. Democracy 21 […]
Below is a letter sent by reform groups today to the Senate, urging Senators to vote for passage of the STOCK Act, the “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act,” scheduled to be taken up in the Senate next week. The organizations include: the Campaign Legal Center, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Common Cause, […]
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer In a Dear Colleague letter sent yesterday to House Members, Representatives Chris Van Hollen and Robert Brady announced they would be introducing legislation shortly to close gaping loopholes in the campaign finance disclosure laws. The legislation would close loopholes in disclosure that have resulted from a combination of […]
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer On January 21, 2010, two years ago, five Supreme Court Justices issued a radical decision in the Citizens United case that is now wreaking havoc on the 2012 elections. The Citizens United decision has done enormous damage to our political system and our democracy. The Citizens United […]
By Fred Wertheimer The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, issued two years ago this week, is wreaking havoc on the 2012 elections. When the Roberts Court decided to strike down the ban on corporate expenditures in campaigns, the five justices who issued the opinion surely had no idea their misguided decision would cause such enormous damage to […]
MITT ROMNEY HAS a prescription for the super PAC problem: Allow political candidates to collect unlimited donations, instead of having the funds funneled to supposedly independent groups. “Let campaigns then take responsibility for their own words,” Mr. Romney said at Monday’s debate. He raises an intriguing question: Given the Supreme Court’s flawed interpretation of the First Amendment […]
Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Report sent by Democracy 21 to the Attorney General that raised serious questions about the legality of five leading presidential candidate-specific Super PACs. Today’s letter was sent “to supplement the information contained in the Report and to provide information on a sixth candidate-specific Super PAC, the Red, White and Blue […]
Democracy 21 Preparing Legislative Proposal to End Candidate-Specific Super PAC Scam Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Super PACs are the campaign finance scandal of the 2012 elections. They allow influence-seeking individuals, corporations, labor unions and other donors to give unlimited, corrupting contributions to support federal candidates. In particular, the presidential candidate-specific […]
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer The Republican National Committee filed an amicus brief today in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of U.S. v. Danielczyk, which challenges the ban on corporate contributions to federal candidates. The RNC brief argues that the court should conclude the ban on corporate contributions is […]
In a letter sent today to Attorney General Eric Holder, Democracy 21 called on the Justice Department to closely monitor the activities of presidential candidate-specific Super PACs in the 2012 presidential election. The letter forwarded to Attorney General Holder a Democracy 21 report issued last week which raised serious questions about the legality of the […]
Sign up for Democracy 21’s email list(s) to receive “Wertheimer’s Political Report” our weekly newsletter released every Thursday and/or our regular news releases. (And, we won’t share your email.)
