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Dark money surpassed $1B in 2020, mostly boosting Democrats
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Campaign Finance Watchdogs Charge Cruz Broke Law To Promote His Book
Reprinted with permission from Alternet
In the United States, the Federal Election Commission has very strict rules governing how campaign funds can and cannot be spent â and the Campaign Legal Center is alleging that Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas violated campaign finance rules by using donor funds to promote one of his books.
The CLC, a watchdog group founded in 2002, alleges that in late 2020, Cruz s campaign spent up to $18,000 on Facebook ads that encouraged viewers to purchase his book,
One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History, which became available on Amazon on September 29.
The greatest gift we can give our children is a vibrant and responsive representative democracy.
The founders of the United States embedded in our Constitution the revolutionary idea we are a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Representative democracy works when citizens elect representatives and hold their representatives accountable at the next election. This is how a democratic republic remains responsive to it citizens.
A Pew Research report from February of 2020 found 74% of Americans believe that their elected representatives in Congress donât care what their constituents think and put their own interests first. Extreme partisanship and big money in our elections and legislative process have weakened our democracy. While polls from the Campaign Legal Center and Pew Research show that over 70% of the American public favor ending partisan gerrymandering and limiting election spending, nothing has been done. Our government should respond to the will of
By Rebecca Beitsch - 04/20/21 03:30 PM EDT
Public interest groups determined to stay focused on the Trump administration say they have new openings for unearthing information now that the past government’s political appointees have departed.
Various groups that flooded the government with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests say the departures have greased the wheels of various agencies’ public records shops.
Requests ranging from the pandemic response and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are moving forward, potentially aiding activists eager to bring new dirt to light.
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“I think there s a ton left to understand about what went wrong during the Trump administration and what norms were broken, what ethical violations occurred, and I do think we’ve only scratched the tip of the iceberg,” said Lisa Gilbert with Public Citizen, who organizes the Not Above the Law coalition of more than 100 different interest groups.
Letter to the editor: Pass For the People Act, protect voters from gerrymandering
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