Mar 31, 2013
New Investigation Reveals Corporate Interests Have Been Quietly Influencing Federally Appointed Judges Leave it to the Koch brothers to find a perfectly legal way to buy influence with federally appointed judges. The billionaire siblings are already well-established in their gluttonous abuse of lax campaign finance laws under Citizens United – pulling the strings of elected judges, but they’ve [...]
Mar 2, 2013
Most of you will have no idea what I am writing about – because you are fortunate to have more than just basic cable, and were born after the advent of cable TV. Many of you – might not know or care – but you should – if you claim to care about the democratic [...]
Feb 28, 2013
Rich Robinson, of the watchdog group Michigan Campaign Finance Network, is reporting that in the 2012 election, Michigan judicial races were by and large bought and paid for by shadowy third party issue ads. Robinson finds that “Just 25% of $18.6M spent was reported to the State”. That’s $14 million in dark money. His concern is that, not only [...]
Feb 26, 2013
A bill introduced by Montana State Rep. Steve Lavin (R-ALEC) would give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections: Provision for vote by corporate property owner. (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a firm, partnership, company, or corporation owns real property within the municipality, the president, vice president, secretary, or other designee of the [...]
Feb 4, 2013
Question: What could be worse than Citizens United? Answer: Possibly…United States v. Danielczyk and Biagi Some may recall that two of Hillary Clinton’s fundraisers, William Danielczyk and Eugene Biagi were indicted for some serious campaign finance violations. They had reimbursed individual campaign contributors with funds from corporate sources. An act that is not ostensibly protected as [...]
Jan 24, 2013
Walden Asset Management spearheads a letter-writing campaign by shareowners urging corporations to review their memberships in the controversial organizations. Tim Smith of Walden Management was instrumental in getting Bank of America to quit ALEC. SocialFunds.com — Following the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in January, 2010, the years-long campaign by investors to pressure corporations [...]
Jan 11, 2013
Money OUT, Voters IN: Find an Event Near You! by Lisa Graves — January 10, 2013 Rev. Martin Luther King at the signing of the Voting Rights Act. Last year, Americans witnessed an explosion in million-dollar checks from a handful of uber-wealthy people underwriting political campaigns and election ads. In 2012, there were also numerous [...]
Dec 21, 2012
Here is something of critical importance to North Carolina immediately. First, excerpts from the article/broadcast at WFAE, the NPR station in Charlotte, NC. Then, my personal commentary. ‘At a press conference ,,,Governor-elect Pat McCrory appointed …conservative activist Art Pope to be his deputy budget director–the governor’s top aide on budget issues. Pope … is a director [...]
