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Let’s Pass A Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United

November 3, 2017 By QuentinPalfrey4MassLG Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: campaign-finance, citizens-united

All’s Not Lost After McCutcheon

April 8, 2014 By massmarrier 5 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Breyer, campaign-finance, citizens-united, corruption, donors, fec, McCutcheon, Roberts, rosenberg, scotus, sunlight-foundation

Another election flooded by dark money? Let’s hope not

February 28, 2014 By creightt Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign-finance, dark money, Massachusetts Disclosure Act, super PACs

Sen. Eldridge Talks Dark Money

November 26, 2013 By massmarrier Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, campaign-finance, citizens-united, clean-elections, eldridge, election-reform, elections, left-ahead, massachusetts, s.321, senate

The Globe is right to call for more disclosure of political spending

August 27, 2013 By creightt Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: #MADISCLOSE, campaign-finance, citizens-united, Massachusetts Disclosure Act

A Plea for A Pledge

May 2, 2013 By creightt Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign-finance, citizens-united, dark money, outside spending, Peoples Pledge, U.S. Senate race

More Tea Party Hypocrisy

November 26, 2011 By steven-j-gulitti Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: American Bankers Association, campaign-finance, Center for Responsive Politics, Congressman Dennis Ross, Congresswoman Diane Black, koch-brothers, Political reform, Tea Party Caucus, tea-party-movement

Eldridge’s Two-Level Attack on Citizens United

October 25, 2011 By massmarrier 3 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: advertising, campaign-finance, citizens-united, congress, constitutional-amendment, eldridge, General-court, massachusetts

On Being Bumped, Or, Let’s Have Another Roundup

July 4, 2011 By fake-consultant 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign-finance, comedy, culture, elections, fox-news, humor, media, Officer Hell, politics, satire, snark, stephen-colbert, Viagra

Paying to play: an update

January 13, 2011 By dave-from-hvad 34 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign-finance, human-service-providers, mental-retardation, patrick-administration

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I’ve never seen a president do this before. This is extraordinary. https://twitter.com/potus/status/1366191901196644354

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Every worker should have a free and fair choice to join a union.

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