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FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 29, 2020 Staggering amounts of campaign money are being raised and spent in the 2020 presidential and congressional elections. Total spending in this election cycle is estimated to reach a record-shattering $14 billion, more than twice the amount spent in the 2016 election cycle, according to the Center for […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 22, 2020 “Trump would like to succeed King George III as the first dictator of the United States. The American people are not about to let that happen.” There may be no better example of President Trump’s governing tendencies as a two-bit, anti-democratic authoritarian than his obsession with jailing […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 15, 2020 “McConnell’s day as the czar of the Senate may be ending soon. It cannot come soon enough.” Led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, congressional Republicans are raising concerns that Democrats may try to “pack” the Supreme Court by adding seats to the Court if they win […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 8, 2020 “Attorney General Barr is a dangerous man without a moral compass and without any perceivable commitment to the rule of law.” This week the Trump/Barr parade of horrors continued. Donald Trump ranted and raved; Attorney General William Barr continued to grossly abuse his office. Barr and Trump […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | October 1, 2020 “The explanation for the President’s crazed efforts is simple. Trump knows he is losing and so he continues to try to steal the election instead.” This week’s presidential debate was a national embarrassment with President Trump wildly out of control and spouting lies about practically everything that […]
Democracy 21 Applauds Ethics Code Issued Today by the Biden-Harris Transition Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer The ethics code issued today by the Biden-Harris Transition is an excellent and comprehensive approach to preventing the conflicts of interest that can arise in a presidential transition. In addition to its important prohibitions on conflicts of […]
Fred Wertheimer, president of the nonprofit Democracy 21 who’s tracked campaign fundraising since the Watergate era, said in a phone interview the fundraising this year is more than “anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes.” Outside groups can focus money on the most competitive races, and the result, he said, “is a campaign finance system dominated […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | September 24, 2020 “No matter what Trump puts the nation through in the coming months, he will not be able to steal the presidency from the American people.” President Trump continued his assault on voting by mail yesterday. But he also raised the issue to new heights, threatening to have […]
Authoritarian Donald Trump and his partisan political partner, Attorney General William Barr, showed their true colors again this week.
In its second open letter, Democracy 21 calls on U.S. Attorney John Durham to resist any effort by AG Barr to misuse Durham’s investigation to improperly assist Trump’s re-election.
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