Campaign Finance Reform NOW
We support campaign finance reform. Money is corrupting U.S. politics. It's a hard issue to solve, but that shouldn't stop us from trying.
Election 2008: TV spending to reach 3 BILLION dollars
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Like, this isn't a waste of money at ALL...
A wide-open presidential race and a willingness by candidates, interest groups, unions and corporations to buy TV time will lead to historic spending for political and issue-advocacy advertising in the 2008 election cycle, an analysis shows.
Al Gore’s Gift to Humanity --- the Organizing Potential of the Internet
The grassroots organizing potential of the Internet is that it could completely destroy the status quo in American politics. If a certain 2 part scenario plays out---net neutrality is protected AND people choose to use the Internet to create communications networks for activism---there will be such heavy pressure on the government to reform itself that we might actually count ourselves citizens of a REAL democracy.
We’ve already seen the beginnings of this, with the blogosphere contributing heavily to the GOP rout in 2006. If this can be continued --- heavyhanded, grassroots-driven electoral accountability --- the result would be a meritocracy of ideas and beliefs playing out at the federal level.
Friday Open Thread
The mood of the country (ahem...BAD)
White House: Gonzales controversy is Congress's fault. (the NERVE! of these people)
Gee. I wonder if these things are related.
Supreme Court poised to make another mistake--Campaign Finance Reform law challenged
McCain-Feingold, which was already a pitiful, pathetically weak attempt at finance reform, is in danger of being struck down by the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices yesterday expressed serious concerns about the legality of key portions of the McCain-Feingold Act, raising the possibility that the court may strike down or sharply limit part of the landmark campaign-finance law heading into the 2008 presidential election.
too good to be true?
I like the ideas behind this, but I don't know if it can accomplish its objectives. Not because it's a bad bill, but it might require complementary bills to resolve the whole issue (campaign finance reform).