New Polls Show Rejection of Supreme Court Ruling & Strong Support for Reform
Recent opinion polling is sending a clear message to Washington: Americans are tired of corporate and special interest influence on politics and want a strong overhaul of our broken campaign finance system.
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Citizens United, which, he suggested, would "open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections." Today, the Senate Rules and Administration Comm
Al Simpson and David Sirota Discuss Fair Elections
Our thanks to David Sirota and Progressive Talk - AM 760. Jon Stewart takes on Citizens United - Are Corporations People Too?"Corporations and unions - they're people just like you and me, but without mouths. So, they can only talk through their ... wallet chords." Supreme Court Ruling Gives Boost to Public Funding MovementIn this update and accompanying policy memo at the Progressive Policy Institute, ACR's Dan Weeks describes the importance of public funding in light of last week's Supreme Court ruling: Supreme Court Ruling Draws Sharp Criticism and Calls for Fair ElectionsJust moments after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 ruling opening the floodgates to corporate money in politics, respected leaders from government, media, and business began to speak out to show their outrage and disappointment. President Obama forcefully condemned the ruling: As Supreme Court Unleashes Corporate Money in Campaigns, the Time for Real Reform is NowIn the landmark Citizens United v. FEC ruling released today, the Supreme Court dismantled a century of precedent limiting corporate spending money on political campaigns. Former Senators Bill Bradley, Bob Kerrey, Warren Rudman, and Al Simpson led the You Street call for a sweeping overhaul of our campaign finance system, challenging Congress and the President to respond forcefully by passing the citizen-funded Fair Elections Now Act. Former Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ): New Brookings Institution Report Backs Public FundingIn a new report released today at the Brookings Institution, four leading scholars in the area of campaign finance endorse the You Street mission by arguing that the time for voluntary public funding of all state, federal, and presidential campaigns has come. 
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