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Penny for Your Thoughts, $100 for Your Vote?

June 4, 2018 By Patrick Littlefield 29 Comments

Big money in politics

The influence of big money is everywhere in politics. Whether itโ€™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...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: 28th-amendment, Benjamin Page, big money, big money in politics, citizens-united, congress, democratic-party, healthcare lobbying, MA3, Martin Gilens, money-in-politics, Patrick Littlefield, political donations, political lobbying, republican-party, third congressional

Money in Politics – Grassroots Org Urges Commonwealth to Lead the Nation

May 13, 2016 By PassMassAmendment 3 Comments

ย  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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: #PassMassAmend, constitutional-amendments, constitutional-convention-โ€“-wednesday, ken-donnelly, ma-gov, mapoli, money-in-politics, pma, politics, rep-paul-mark, S-53, state-rep

Mayday PAC a friendly critique

July 7, 2014 By dan64r 8 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign-finance-reform, democracy, harvard, may-day, money-in-politics, news, super PACs

Markey is right re Citizens United and Dred Scott

February 22, 2013 By john-bonifaz 10 Comments

As is now being widely reported, Congressman Ed Markey made this statement on Tuesday about the Citizens United ruling: โ€œThe Constitution must be amended. The Dred Scott decision had to be repealed; we have to repeal Citizens … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: citizens-united, constitution, corporations, democracy, Dred Scott, markey, money-in-politics

How much taxpayer money goes to the corporations funding Patrick’s inauguration?

January 5, 2011 By empowerment 28 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corporate-welfare, massachusetts, money-in-politics

50-Plus Law Professors, former AGs, say Citizens United wrong, May Require Constitutional Amendment

October 4, 2010 By Jeff 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign-finance.-fair-elections, citizens-united, constitutional-amendment, first-amendment, free-speech-for-people, money-in-politics

Gov. Patrick’s hypocrisy exposes “ethics reforms” as meaningless

June 4, 2010 By empowerment 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: culture-of-beacon-hill, dysfunctional-democracy, lobbyists, money-in-politics

Nothing’s really free, is it?

November 19, 2006 By annem 9 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corruption, federal-budget, healht-care, health-care-amendment, money-in-politics, politics, state-bduget

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Look, people confused Charlie Baker "not being Donald Trump" with "trustworthy verging on infallible."

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โ€œUtter breakdown ... *itโ€™s just not okay*โ€ [emphasis original]

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Earlier, I spoke at the #MACOVIDOversight hearing and voiced my concerns & the concerns of my colleagues and constituents. I then asked @MassGovernor what I believe was a straightforward question...and received a not-so-straightforward response.

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In 2014, I was a clerk for the ME legislature's enviro committee and I'm flabbergasted by the arguments by progressive Reps (many of whom I respect) against making committee votes and testimony public. /1 #mapoli @act_on_mass @byChrisVan @statehousenews
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What conditions accounts for this?

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