Fred’s Weekly Note Archive
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | November 8, 2018 “In the end, it is up to us to ensure that the Mueller investigation proceeds without interference and that the rule of law prevails.” I was in Washington working for Common Cause when the Saturday Night Massacre – President Nixon’s firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | November 1, 2018 “A small donor matching funds system would allow congressional candidates to run for office without being indebted and obligated to big money funders.” A new coalition was announced this week that brings together 100 national organizations, including Democracy 21, to work to repair our broken political system […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 25, 2018 “Polls can be used as a political weapon by campaigns, parties, and partisans trying to influence media coverage and confuse voters.” “Buyer beware” should be the watchword when it comes to paying attention to polls as this election season heads toward November 6. Polls can be used […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 18, 2018 “The stakes in our elections are always high, but in this election they are momentous.” With 19 days left before the midterm elections it now appears likely that we are heading for Democrats winning control of the House and Republicans maintaining, or perhaps strengthening, control of the […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 11, 2018 “Any effort by President Trump or his loyalists to destroy the Mueller investigation will constitute obstruction of justice and abuse of power of the kind that President Nixon committed in Watergate, and that ultimately led to Nixon’s resignation.” We are facing the challenge of dangerous changes at […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 4, 2018 “If Democrats win control of the House in November, the fight to enact sweeping campaign finance and other democracy reforms will begin immediately.” A powerful new force emerged on the scene today to challenge the role money and special interests are playing in undermining citizen faith in the […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | September 28, 2018 “McConnell violates all rules of fair play. “ The enormous damage that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has done to the integrity and credibility of the Supreme Court can be seen in his handling of two of the recent nominations to the Court. When Justice Antonin Scalia […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | September 20, 2018 “McConnell’s devious Supreme Court manipulations are a grave miscarriage of justice that will not be soon forgotten.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rules Senate Republicans with an iron fist and no velvet glove. He is a disaster for the American people. He first made his bones in […]
President Trump is crashing in the polls. Two recent polls have a Democrats’ “blue wave” in the making, with 14– and 12-point leads in the generic vote for House races. And the stage is being set in Congress for a historic effort to begin early next year to fix our broken and corrupt political system, […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | August 30, 2018 “We find ourselves again with one more eerie reminder of the parallels between the Trump presidency and the Nixon Watergate scandals that ended with President Nixon’s resignation.” This week may go down as the turning point in the Trump presidency. It started on Saturday with the funeral […]
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