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Op-Eds Archive

Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Doctor No: Senator McConnell, the Supreme Court And a Thirty-Year Career of Obstructionism”

March 15, 2016|Op Eds |Congress  Money In Politicsby Diane

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says the American people must be heard and therefore the next Supreme Court Justice should be considered by the […]

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/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg 0 0 Diane /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg Diane2016-03-15 16:27:252018-08-21 21:26:28Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Doctor No: Senator McConnell, the Supreme Court And a Thirty-Year Career of Obstructionism”

Fred Wertheimer Op-ed: A Reform Agenda to Counter Big Money in American Politics

January 21, 2016|Op Eds |Democracy Reforms  Money In Politicsby Diane

By: Fred Wertheimer Published by: Huffington Post America today has dueling campaign finance systems for federal elections. One system, in existence for more than 40 […]

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/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg 0 0 Diane /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg Diane2016-01-21 16:29:512018-08-21 21:33:15Fred Wertheimer Op-ed: A Reform Agenda to Counter Big Money in American Politics

Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Citizens United Consequences Part Two: Super Rich Empowered, Ordinary Americans Undermined, Democracy Subverted”

January 20, 2016|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby Diane

This op-ed is the second in a three part series on the consequences of the Citizens United decision. The first op-ed, entitled “Citizens United and […]

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/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg 0 0 Diane /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg Diane2016-01-20 16:20:212018-08-21 21:30:50Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Citizens United Consequences Part Two: Super Rich Empowered, Ordinary Americans Undermined, Democracy Subverted”

Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Citizens United and its Disastrous Consequences: The Decision”

January 14, 2016|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby Diane

  January 21 marks the sixth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, one of the worst and most […]

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/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg 0 0 Diane /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg Diane2016-01-14 16:32:402018-08-21 21:30:36Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Citizens United and its Disastrous Consequences: The Decision”

How Chief Justice Roberts and Four Supreme Court Colleagues Gave the Nation a System of Legalized Bribery

October 6, 2015|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby Diane

Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post The Supreme Court began its fall term this week. This seems like a good time to pause for a moment […]

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/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg 0 0 Diane /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg Diane2015-10-06 14:56:472019-01-15 20:21:06How Chief Justice Roberts and Four Supreme Court Colleagues Gave the Nation a System of Legalized Bribery

Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “IRS Appears Headed Toward New Rules that Will Continue to License Secret Contributions in Federal Elections”

September 30, 2015|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby Diane

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen appears to be headed toward issuing new IRS regulations that will continue to license section 501(c)(4) groups to improperly launder massive […]

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/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg 0 0 Diane /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg Diane2015-09-30 13:44:132019-01-15 20:22:30Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “IRS Appears Headed Toward New Rules that Will Continue to License Secret Contributions in Federal Elections”

Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Government Corruption Is and Remains the Fundamental Danger of Individual-Candidate Super PACs”

September 23, 2015|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby Diane

The Huffington Post Government Corruption Is and Remains the Fundamental Danger of Individual-Candidate Super PACs By: Fred Wertheimer  Governor Scott Walker and former Governor Rick […]

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/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg 0 0 Diane /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg Diane2015-09-23 19:18:492019-01-15 20:24:06Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Government Corruption Is and Remains the Fundamental Danger of Individual-Candidate Super PACs”

Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “National Political Parties Walk Away From Ordinary Americans to Chase Super Rich for Million Dollar Donations”

September 21, 2015|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby Diane

  An article published yesterday by The Washington Post, revealed that the Democratic and Republican national parties have set up programs to seek contributions of […]

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/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg 0 0 Diane /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg Diane2015-09-21 19:30:242019-01-15 20:24:21Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “National Political Parties Walk Away From Ordinary Americans to Chase Super Rich for Million Dollar Donations”

Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “The Koch Brothers’ Magic Trick”

September 16, 2015|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby Diane

In August, 2015, Charles and David Koch gathered their fellow billionaires and multimillionaires at a semi-annual meeting of the Koch network “to save” the country, […]

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/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg 0 0 Diane /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg Diane2015-09-16 13:47:152019-01-15 20:24:34Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “The Koch Brothers’ Magic Trick”

Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Donald Trump and Campaign Finance Reform”

September 1, 2015|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby Diane

Some have recently commented that Donald Trump is the best thing that has happened to the campaign finance reform movement in years. I disagree. Donald […]

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/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg 0 0 Diane /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dem21-logo-red-horizontal-250x90-1.svg Diane2015-09-01 13:45:192019-05-10 20:51:12Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Donald Trump and Campaign Finance Reform”
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