How Chief Justice Roberts and Four Supreme Court Colleagues Gave the Nation a System of Legalized Bribery
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 […]
Today’s badly broken campaign finance system benefits wealthy interests, and leaves hundreds of millions of ordinary Americans on the outside looking in at Washington’s rigged system.
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O’Malley Issues Strong Campaign Finance Reform Plan, But Fails to Address Presidential Financing
|Press Releases |Money In Politicsby DianeFormer Governor Martin O’Malley issued a strong campaign finance reform plan today that addresses a number of important campaign finance issues. They include creating a […]
Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “IRS Appears Headed Toward New Rules that Will Continue to License Secret Contributions in Federal Elections”
|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby DianeIRS 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 […]
Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Government Corruption Is and Remains the Fundamental Danger of Individual-Candidate Super PACs”
|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby DianeThe 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 […]
Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “National Political Parties Walk Away From Ordinary Americans to Chase Super Rich for Million Dollar Donations”
|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby DianeAn article published yesterday by The Washington Post, revealed that the Democratic and Republican national parties have set up programs to seek contributions of […]
Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “The Koch Brothers’ Magic Trick”
|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby DianeIn 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, […]
Reform Groups Urge President Obama to Reject Campaign Finance Riders in Appropriation Bills
|Press Releases |Congress Money In Politicsby DianeReform groups today wrote to President Obama strongly urging him to reject all riders in appropriations bills, including four damaging campaign finance riders, and to insist that […]
Reform Groups Call on IRS to End Misuse of Nonprofits to Launder Secret Contributions into Federal Elections
|Press Releases |Money In Politicsby DianeIn a letter sent today to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, reform groups called on the IRS to end the misuse use of nonprofit groups […]
Fred Wertheimer: Democracy 21 Praises Campaign Finance Reform Plan Issued by Clinton
|Press Releases |Money In Politicsby DianeDemocracy 21 applauds the very important and valuable campaign finance reform policy plan former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued today. The plan contains […]
Fred Wertheimer for Huffington Post: “Donald Trump and Campaign Finance Reform”
|Op Eds |Money In Politicsby DianeSome have recently commented that Donald Trump is the best thing that has happened to the campaign finance reform movement in years. I disagree. Donald […]
