Senate Majority Leader McConnell proposed scam legislation yesterday to soothe outgoing President Trump’s ego, avoid any up or down vote on a $2,000 Covid relief payment, and create a fraudulent Election Assistance Commission “Advisory Group” to study the “integrity and administration” of the November election. This phony legislation makes it appear like McConnell is being […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | December 22, 2020 “We should never lose sight of the fact that Trump’s defeat in 2020 has prevented a catastrophic destruction of our democracy.” As the 116th Congress heads to a close, Congress yesterday passed a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill and a $1.4 trillion appropriations bill, as President Trump […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | December 17, 2020 President Obama began his presidency in 2009 with an inauguration financed by contributions limited to no more than $50,000 per individual. Corporations were prohibited from making contributions. (Obama changed the rules for his second inauguration.) President-elect Joe Biden has chosen another path to begin his presidency in […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | December 10, 2020 “With the end of the destructive Trump presidency in sight and with a new normal presidency coming soon, there is hope for the future.” President Trump is putting lives in danger in his closing days in office as he rants about how he won an election that […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | December 3, 2020 “Trump can use his tens of millions of leadership PAC dollars for anything he wants.” President Trump likes to use superlatives about everything he does, and they are invariably false claims. In the case of his current fundraising, however, he is entitled to a true superlative: Trump […]
“This is a rotten system, but as long as it exists, both parties are going to use it,” said Fred Wertheimer, who runs the watchdog group Democracy 21 and is part of a coalition of more than 170 groups, urging the incoming president to tackle issues ranging from voting rights to greater transparency in campaign […]
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