Link-of-the-Day – Page 53 – Democracy North Carolina

Friday, October 15, 2010

(Posting delayed due to dead computer.) With Early Voting off to a roaring start, here’s a link to an all-purpose resource for North Carolina elections that we encourage others to post on their sites: http://www.NCElectionConnection.com/. It connects you to your Early Voting sites, a view of your sample ballot, the location of your precinct polling place on [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:45-05:00 October 17th, 2010|Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Youth Vote|0 Comments

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Ninety-seven cents of every dollar the Civitas Institute spends comes from Art Pope via the Pope Foundation, according to a new report by Facing South. So does four dollars out of every five that John Hood and the John Locke Foundation spend to promote the Art Pope brand of me-first, libertarian conservatism. This is the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:45-05:00 October 15th, 2010|Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

The Instant Runoff Voting method will be used in three Superior Court races this year -- and in a 13-candidate tussle for a seat on the NC Court of Appeals. Ironically, there’s more attention on the IRV process than on these little-known candidates. Two recent pieces include this op-ed piece by Damon Circosta of the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2010-10-14T02:02:05-04:00 October 14th, 2010|Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The NC Voters from Clean Elections coalition released its 2010 scorecard that evaluates the support of state legislators for “voter-owned” public financing and related campaign reform measures. NCVCE points out that more legislators received perfect scores in 2010 than in previous reports. Meanwhile, three more judicial candidates have demonstrated enough public support to qualify for [...]

By Bob Hall| 2010-10-13T01:29:38-04:00 October 13th, 2010|Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Voter-Owned Elections|0 Comments

Monday, October 11, 2010

Early voting begins Thursday in North Carolina. Two short video messages, pro-Tea Party and anti-Tea Party, are each designed to get their side to the polls with a message that says, “Aren’t you scared by what’s happening in America? Get out and vote!”

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:45-05:00 October 11th, 2010|Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day|0 Comments

Friday, October 8, 2010

Continuing the theme from the last couple of days, the Institute for Southern Studies has an eye-popping feature about Art Pope. Among other nuggets: Pope basically owns the Civitas Institute, the source of those so-called non-biased polls you see in the press; an amazing 99% of Civitas’ income comes from Pope through his foundation! Pope’s [...]

By Bob Hall| 2010-10-09T02:00:40-04:00 October 9th, 2010|Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments

Thursday, October 7, 2010

A front group for ultra-conservative Art Pope is jumping into new territory with the encouragement of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. It is using money from Pope’s business to run attack ads against Democratic leaders in the General Assembly. The 501(c)(4) group, called Civitas Action, has the same executive director, office, and dominating financial [...]

By Bob Hall| 2010-10-08T01:34:52-04:00 October 8th, 2010|Citizens United Case, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|4 Comments

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

The insidious corporate takeover of the U.S. Congress is gaining momentum and going global. A new report reveals that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is soliciting foreign donations to bolster its political operations, which include a $75 million budget for attack ads to elect its proxies to Congress. That’s probably the biggest political budget of [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:45-05:00 October 7th, 2010|Citizens United Case, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|3 Comments

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

If you work with a nonprofit group, school, faith-based organization or social-service agency, you can play a vital role in educating and mobilizing voters. A one-hour webinar by the NC Center for Nonprofits will help you understand what nonprofits can and can’t do within tax law restrictions, and also give an overview of the basics [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:45-05:00 October 6th, 2010|Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|1 Comment

Monday, October 4, 2010

Secret sponsors: Interest groups are spending five times as much in this election as in the last midterm election – and the identities of the money suppliers behind these groups are mostly unknown, in contrast to 2006 when 90% of the donors were disclosed. Public Citizens has a new report analyzing “fading disclosure” and the New [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:45-05:00 October 4th, 2010|Citizens United Case, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments