The influence of big money is everywhere in politics. Whether it’s in the primary elections, general elections, Super PAC spending, industry lobbyists, or donations from Wall Street, this is how our political decisions get made, regardless … [Read more...]
Money in Politics – Grassroots Org Urges Commonwealth to Lead the Nation
Press Release May 12, 2016 - For Immediate Release - PassMassAmendment press contacts: Gina Sonder & Nick Bokron, pasmassamendmentpsa at gmail dot com; 781-715-7822 A grassroots group attempting to get BIG MONEY OUT of … [Read more...]
Mayday PAC a friendly critique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3X2eDCmPRY Mayday PAC is a SuperPAC to end all SuperPACs. It has already raised 5 million dollars and plans on picking 5 congressional districts in which to support pro campaign finance reform … [Read more...]
Markey is right re Citizens United and Dred Scott
As is now being widely reported, Congressman Ed Markey made this statement on Tuesday about the Citizens United ruling: “The Constitution must be amended. The Dred Scott decision had to be repealed; we have to repeal Citizens … [Read more...]
How much taxpayer money goes to the corporations funding Patrick’s inauguration?
Well, Liberty Mutual was awarded $22.5 million in state tax credits last year (not to mention the $24 million property tax break from Boston... OK, I HAD to mention that too). I wonder if their $25k on the inauguration might be seen as a … [Read more...]
50-Plus Law Professors, former AGs, say Citizens United wrong, May Require Constitutional Amendment
After the Citizens United decision last year, leaders like Representative Cory Atkins, Bill Strauss and Senator Jamie Eldridge worked hard on legislative responses to the damage that Citizens United did to our democracy. But they … [Read more...]
Gov. Patrick’s hypocrisy exposes “ethics reforms” as meaningless
Much like the Global Warming Solutions Act, which does virtually nothing to solve Global Warming but stands ahead of most or all other states in the Union... these lobbying and ethics reforms were more political posturing than meaningful … [Read more...]
Nothing’s really free, is it?
Someone recently put up a comment elsewhere on BMG criticizing the MA health care constitutional amendment campaign on the grounds that it was attempting to make health care "free". I thought about their words and it came to mind that … [Read more...]