Campaign Finance Regulations Don’t Exist to Make Politicians’ Lives Easier

August 31, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  , , ,

Issue One’s series of interviews with former lawmakers continued last week with a discussion featuring Charlie Bass, a Republican Congressman from New Hampshire from ...

What’s the Value of “Outside Speech” Anyway?

August 28, 2017   •  By Alex Cordell   •  ,

Far outside the boundaries of the continental United States, Alaska’s stringent campaign finance regulations go a step further in distinguishing The Last Frontier from ...

Issue One Interview Unwittingly Undermines Narrative of Campaign Finance Corruption

August 23, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  , ,

Last week, Issue One – a group that advocates for greater regulation of political speech – published an interview with former Congressman Mike Castle. ...

Can Nonprofits Be Successful without Donor Privacy?

August 16, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

Last week, Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ), a website and magazine that writes about nonprofit management and governance, published an article about “liberating” 501(c)(4) advocacy nonprofits ...

Are Tax-Financed Campaigns Worth the Price?

August 11, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

A recently published study examines taxpayer-financed campaign systems in different locales; specifically, programs that provide matching public funds to municipal candidates in New York ...

When Gridlock is Good

August 9, 2017   •  By Alex Cordell   •  ,

In recent months, a handful of members on both sides of the aisle in the House of Representatives have proposed legislation to change the ...

In Trump’s America, Common Cause Cares about the First Amendment

August 8, 2017   •  By Alex Baiocco   •  ,

Common Cause, a group that actively pushes for broader campaign finance disclosure laws, recently sued President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission in federal court in ...

Giving Taxpayer Dollars to Local D.C. Politicians is a Bad Idea

August 3, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

Last week, D.C. Councilmember and Chair Pro Tempore Kenyan McDuffie took to the pages of The Washington Post to advocate for taxpayer funding for ...

Did Dean Heller Really “Change” His Vote on Health Care Because of Donor Pressure?

August 2, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

When it comes to the complexity of American politics, the multi-month effort by congressional Republicans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (also ...

Surprise, Surprise: Politicians Are Happy to Benefit from Taxpayer Money

July 27, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

Seattle’s new “democracy vouchers” program is the latest effort by supporters of greater campaign finance regulation to give government a bigger role in political ...

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