Link-of-the-Day – Page 32 – Democracy North Carolina

LOD: Inside Clean Elections

What does it mean to have elections about ideas and people instead of big money and mud? Read this great story of the nation’s pioneering Clean Elections program after a decade in action. Candidates for the state legislature in Maine have a real alternative to the private money chase that turns well-meaning lawmakers into professional [...]

By Bob Hall| 2011-11-08T17:28:51-05:00 November 8th, 2011|Citizens United Case, Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Pay to Play, Voter-Owned Elections|0 Comments

LOD: Lobbyist-Donor Ban Upheld

The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld North Carolina's year-round ban on registered lobbyists making campaign contributions to state candidates. Previously, NC had a ban while the General Assembly was in session, but after the fiasco involving then-Speaker Jim Black, the legislature expanding the prohibition to cover 24/7, 365 days a year. Democracy North [...]

By Bob Hall| 2011-11-07T19:11:05-05:00 November 7th, 2011|Link-of-the-Day, Lobbying, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics, Pay to Play|0 Comments

LOD: Redistricting Update

Democracy North Carolina will join three other nonpartisan organizations in filing a lawsuit in state court on Friday that challenges the constitutionality of the new redistricting plans. Late yesterday, the US Department of Justice said it would not object to the plans, using a relatively narrow set of criteria to “preclear” the maps in the 40 [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:33-05:00 November 2nd, 2011|Link-of-the-Day, Redistricting, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Election Admin Data

The Pew Center on the States has a new on-line service called Election Data Dispatches. It’s billed as a round-up of the best stories, data, research and analysis about what's involved in administering elections across the 50 states, what works, what needs improvement, etc - from voter registration to ballot design to election costs. Check [...]

By Bob Hall| 2011-10-31T18:52:20-04:00 October 31st, 2011|Civic Engagement, Disclosure, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Corporate Disclosure Index

Which companies are doing the best job of disclosing their political spending to their stockholders and the public? For several years, the Center for Political Accountability has led a growing campaign to make the biggest publicly traded companies see the wisdom in opening their books and lowering their exposure to the kind of attack that [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:34-05:00 October 28th, 2011|Disclosure, Link-of-the-Day, Lobbying, Money in Politics|0 Comments

LOD: Justice at Stake

A trio of groups that analyze judicial elections today released a report documenting a national campaign “to intimidate America’s state judges into becoming accountable to money and ideologies instead of the Constitution and the law.” The New Politics of Judicial Elections, 2010 examines the “hostile takeover” of judicial elections by special interests and the attacks on [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:34-05:00 October 27th, 2011|Judicial Elections, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics, Voter-Owned Elections|0 Comments

LOD: Serving the Public

So who do you want your Insurance Commissioner listening to when it comes time to regulate insurance rates? The public or the insurance companies? If the private companies supply the bulk of the commissioner’s campaign money, you can bet they’ll have an insider’s advantage. That’s one powerful reason why we need the Voter-Owned Elections program [...]

By Bob Hall| 2011-10-25T18:56:24-04:00 October 25th, 2011|Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Pay to Play, Voter-Owned Elections|0 Comments

LOD: Money for Lawmakers

Here’s a story that deserves more attention: NC House Rules Co-chair Stephen LaRoque (R-Kinston) loaned his for-profit management company $200,000 from a non-profit organization that he set up to channel federal small-business loans to high risk ventures in rural North Carolina – and then he refused to disclose this insider dealing on the non-profit’s report [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:34-05:00 October 24th, 2011|Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Pay to Play, Voter-Owned Elections|0 Comments

LOD: Take Action on Art Pope

Sign this petition: http://bit.ly/cut-the-strings-petition. And then pass this link along to 4 others.

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:34-05:00 October 21st, 2011|Citizens United Case, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments

LOD: Duke, Progress & Political $$

The behemoth created by the proposed merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy would not only yield the nation’s largest electric utility. The new creature would become the most politically influential corporation in NC, according to a new analysis by Democracy North Carolina. Duke and Progress Energy have long sponsored PACs that rank among the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2011-10-19T17:36:13-04:00 October 19th, 2011|Link-of-the-Day, Lobbying, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics|1 Comment