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The Fight for Clean Elections

April 26, 2007 – 6:18 pm

Washington Public Campaigns
The Fight for Clean Elections
Craig Salins
Recent news stories confirm how money dominates our political process. Law-making has been for sale at every level. Large sums flow in; political favors flow out - drowning the voices of ordinary citizens, and allowing fat cats to set public policy in their private interest.
When big [...]

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Fair Elections in WA - 6 Points

April 3, 2007 – 7:54 am

Six Points – Six Minutes

1. Bad news: Law-making has been for sale, at every level - especially Congress, but also locally (for example, developers seeking zoning favors) and at the state level (in tax policy, etc.). It’s getting worse and worse. When big donors give big bucks, they expect a huge Return-On-Investment - [...]

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Washington Public Campaigns Presentation

March 4, 2007 – 11:19 am

WPC speaker John Flowers gives an excellent presentation to the Eastside Peace and Justice Community on how to end the legalized bribery in our campaign finance system.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-333405714196865897

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WA Leg Hearing on public financing of elections

February 8, 2007 – 11:10 pm

WA Legislative Hearing 02/07/2007 Rally Pictures by Washington Public Campaigns on public financing of elections.

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Just $6 Podcasts - Federal Clean Election efforts

February 4, 2007 – 10:53 pm

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These are from the Just $6 Organization that is working on publicly financed federal elections.
Warren Rudman: The Distraction of Fundraising
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Alan Simpson on Why Public Financing is a Must
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Starting the conversation.
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Update on clean election legislation

February 1, 2007 – 5:06 pm

Chad Shue updates us on the efforts in Olympia passing clean election legislation. Please call or email your WA State Representatives and Senators (especially Pridemore and Benton) and tell them you support clean elections. For more info, go here.

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Public Financing of Judicial Elections heats up

January 29, 2007 – 11:47 am

Durbin of the Columbian reports on last Thursday’s meeting of the Senate Committee on Public Finance of Judicial Elections. According to my sources, there were about 40-45 people that showed up for the meeting and only 3 or so were allowed to speak.
Change is difficult. People who were elected with private money are [...]

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WA Rep Mark Miloscia on Al Franken re Public Financing of Elections

January 26, 2007 – 11:47 am

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KUOW Radio Segment on Public Campaign Financing

January 24, 2007 – 8:03 am

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Craig Salins, Executive Coordinator for Washington Public Campaigns (www.washclean.org), is interviewed at ~42:45 min:sec portion of this KUOW Puget Sound Radio (94.9 FM) program. Craig succinctly spells out why “clean election” legislation is the way to get big money interests out of our politics and restore our democracy. The whole show is worth [...]

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How do we make a difference?

January 20, 2007 – 1:32 pm

At least this person is striving to figure out how to really change our country. I have two things to say to her.
First, when one protests, it matters not that no one pays any attention. Protesting for me is something I do for myself. I am expressing my dissatisfaction to [...]

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