This week, President Trump and congressional Republicans unveiled a “tax reform” proposal that finances a massive tax cut for multinational corporations, Wall Street, and the very wealthiest Americans by gutting Medicaid, Medicare, and the … [Read more...]
All’s Not Lost After McCutcheon
The Roberts version of the SCOTUS slammed good-government types hard, first with Citizens United and now with McCutcheon v. FEC. Today theSunlight Foundation’s Lisa Rosenberg (government-affairs consultant) gave me some perspective…and … [Read more...]
Another election flooded by dark money? Let’s hope not
Super PACs are quietly forming to influence the race for governor and other state elections in 2014, and if state lawmakers don’t pass a campaign finance disclosure bill soon, these outside groups will be free to spend unlimited sums … [Read more...]
Sen. Eldridge Talks Dark Money
One of Left Ahead's favorite guests, MA Sen. James (Jamie) Eldridge joined us to talk campaign-finance reform, specifically disclosure of contributions. He’s as appalled as we about the Citizens United decision. He is a leader in nibbling … [Read more...]
The Globe is right to call for more disclosure of political spending
The Boston Globe editorial board rightly called on the Massachusetts State Legislature to “alter campaign finance laws to thwart outside spending” in elections. As the editorial board correctly notes, “spending by outside groups has … [Read more...]
A Plea for A Pledge
A new report by Common Cause Massachusetts shows that limiting outside spending in last year's U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts helped to increased electoral transparency, accountability, and fairness, and calls on the current Senate … [Read more...]
More Tea Party Hypocrisy
Now correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the Tea Party crowd supposed to come to Washington and do away with things like business as usual, excessive and wasteful government spending ad infinitum? I guess if you can grab some loot from those … [Read more...]
Eldridge’s Two-Level Attack on Citizens United
MA Sen. James (Jamie) Eldridge did not throw up his hands last year when the SCOTUS passed Citizens United by five to four. He proposed commonwealth and federal fixes to unlimited, undisclosed campaign and advertising contributions under … [Read more...]
On Being Bumped, Or, Let’s Have Another Roundup
So I thought I was going to have another Jay Inslee story for y’all today, but it turns out that I’m going to have to do more research before we can “come to press” with that one. But that’s OK, because the world’s been busy doing a lot … [Read more...]
Paying to play: an update
The contributions ranged from as little as $55 from one employee of one firm I looked at, to $18,900 from five employees of another. There are two points I'd like to make here about these figures: 1. The $166,690 is the total I came … [Read more...]
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