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Americans for Campaign Reform Letter to Contributors
Today, the House Administration Committee will mark up several bills that aim to put a final nail in the coffin on public financing of presidential elections and party conventions.
Together H.R. 94 and H.R. 95 would terminate the presidential public financing system and eliminate public financing for the conventions without placing any restrictions on funding conventions with corporate money and large contributions from powerful individuals.
The result: The parties will have no choice but to rely even more on unlimited soft money contributions that could corrupt officeholders and influence government decisions.
Can you call Chairwoman Candice Miller at (202) 225-2106 and Ranking Member Robert Brady at (202) 225-4731 and tell them you oppose HR 94 and 95?
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)And the President certainly wouldn't sign it. The House is a lost cause until the 2014 elections.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)msongs
(67,496 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,493 posts)http://www.citizen.org/documents/political-party-convention-funding-background-info.pdf
The Democratic and Republican national conventions are supposed to be publicly financed electoral events with reasonable ethics restrictions on influence-peddling by lobbyists. However, the conventions have become mostly privately financed soirees funded by corporations and lobbying firms that seek favors from the federal government. The unlimited soft money donations from special interests to pay for the conventions, and the lavish parties and wining and dining at the conventions, run counter to the federal election law and congressional ethics rules.
http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/pubfund.shtml
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)Political conventions are nothing more than passion plays for showcasing the powerful and for entertaining the faithful. However, corporate money doesn't bankroll anything for love of universal suffrage and representative government.
ThomThom
(1,486 posts)we are bought and paid for by corporation
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)L0oniX
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Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)& R & calls made.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)marble falls
(57,479 posts)Th1onein
(8,514 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)If you did then you are a total dumb ass.
demwing
(16,916 posts)It isn't really bad news...it's just SOP for the House. It will either die in the Senate, or under Obama's pen. You've been around, you know the drill.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)The states can email in their votes.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Great idea!