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ICPR Statement to the Campaign Finance Reform Task Force December 15 Public Hearing

 

Statement of Michelle Jordan

Board Member, Illinois Campaign for Political Reform

To the Campaign Finance Reform Task Force

 

December 15, 2011

 

 



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How to Free Congress’s Mind

November 29, 2011
New York Times

By AMY GUTMANN and DENNIS F. THOMPSON

WHEN it comes to changing the toxic partisan gridlock in Washington, the Beatles got it just about right: “You tell me it’s the institution/Well, you know/You’d better free your mind instead.”

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ICPR to task force: Public financing is attractive and viable

The campaign contribution limits law created in the wake of the Blagojevich scandal created a special task force and charged it with studying various campaign finance-related issues. The first item on the group's to-do list is producing a report on public financing, and that is due by the end of the year.



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Public financing of Ill. elections debated

November 28, 2011
Bloomington Pantagraph

By Kurt Erickson

SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois could combat the dominance of money in elections by launching some sort of public financing program for candidates, advocates told a special panel investigating election reform issues Monday.

At a time when voters are still reeling from the conviction of its second straight governor on corruption charges, advocates said adding public money to the mix for elections could broaden the number of people seeking elected offices and add to the number of people who are financing elections.

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Groups seek to overturn NC public campaign financing law

September 13, 2011
M2M Politics

By Tom Breen
Associated Press

RALEIGH — North Carolina's system of publicly-financed elections for judges and other office-holders is deeply flawed, a new lawsuit contends, and portions of it should be struck down to protect free speech rights.

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Our View: In America, the people are the ultimate restorers of balance.

December 17, 2009
Peoria Journal Star

From the Peoria Journal Star (Editorial)
Posted Jun 30, 2011 @ 01:19 AM

Some recent decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court have been framed as reflecting the body's 5-4 conservative bent, as well as an unfair bias among the interpreters of the law of the land in favor of the privileged over the powerless. To be sure, the court majority has recently sided with the likes of Wal-Mart, AT&T and the deepest of political campaign pockets.

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Supreme Court strikes Arizona’s ‘matching funds’ for publicly financed candidates

June 27, 2011
Washington Post

 

By Robert Barnes

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of Arizona’s public campaign finance law, the latest in a series of its rulings holding that the right of political speech trumps government efforts to restrain the power of money in elections.

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What the Court Did and Didn't Do

June 27, 2011
New York Times

By Zephyr Teachout

Perhaps the most important part of the McComish opinion is what it doesn’t do. It struck down public disbursements that are triggered by another candidate's spending, or by another interest group's spending. But it did not touch public financing generally, and did not touch automatic matching funds.

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Campaign Law

June 28, 2011
Center for Responsive Politics

 By Kathleen Ronayne

SUPREME COURT DEEMS ARIZONA CAMPAIGN LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL: The Supreme Court on Monday voted down a portion of Arizona's campaign finance system that made more public financing available to candidates when their privately funded opponents outspent them. 

The court voted on the case, McComish v. Bennett, 5-4. 

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