Link-of-the-Day – Page 56 – Democracy North Carolina

Friday, September 3, 2010

Want to get a picture of how big money in politics is crushing real people? Watch this short video from Brave New Foundation about a farmer in Iowa, oyster harvester in Louisiana and coal miner in West Virginia. (Explore the Fair Elections website for more Good Stuff.) The message is clear: people suffer when wealthy [...]

By Bob Hall| 2010-09-03T15:42:38-04:00 September 3rd, 2010|FENA, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Voter-Owned Elections|0 Comments

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Real Jobs NC, the 527 committee backed by Art Pope, Fred Eshelman and the national Republican Party, has begun sending tons of attack-ad mailers to voters in the districts of several state House Democrats who face tight elections. (See August 18 LINK entry.) Mark Binker of the Greensboro News & Record looks into the claims [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:46-05:00 September 2nd, 2010|Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments

September 1, 2010

A Texas judge has ordered the national Republican Governors Association to pay $2 million to the state’s Democratic candidate for governor in 2006 because the association illegally funneled $1 million to Republican Gov. Rick Perry from the nation’s biggest individual campaign donor that year. The donation came from Bob Perry, the Houston mega-builder and patron of the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:46-05:00 September 1st, 2010|Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments

August 31, 2010

At the close of filing today, 13 candidates had signed up to replace Judge Jim Wynn on the NC Court of Appeals. That means North Carolina will host the nation’s first statewide election using the Instant Runoff Voting method in decades. Voters can select up to three candidates in order of their preference, 1st, 2nd, [...]

By Bob Hall| 2010-08-31T23:00:27-04:00 August 31st, 2010|Link-of-the-Day|1 Comment

Monday, August 30, 2010

Three state Senate races to fill vacancies in southeastern North Carolina could decide whether Democrats or Republicans win majority control of that body. The majority party will use the new Census data to redraw the boundary lines for Congressional and legislative districts for the next decade, with an eye to securing a partisan advantage in [...]

By Bob Hall| 2010-08-30T14:49:22-04:00 August 30th, 2010|Link-of-the-Day|0 Comments

Friday, August 27, 2010

Mother Jones magazine gives this factoid from a new series by the Center for Responsive Politics: Environmental organizations spent a record $22 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies last year, but for every dollar the groups spent, the oil and gas industry spent eight dollars. Exxon alone spent more on lobbying than all the environmental [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:46-05:00 August 27th, 2010|Environmental Issues, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments

Thursday, August 26, 2010

A mere 90 years ago today, a new Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution declared, “The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Women were voting in some states as early as the 1830s, [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:46-05:00 August 26th, 2010|Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|1 Comment

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The State Board of Elections voted 4 to 1 to fine Gov. Bev Perdue’s campaign committee $30,000 for failing to properly disclose private airplane flights donated to her 2008 campaign. An eight-month investigation by the Board’s chief investigator Kim Strach turned up a hodgepodge of incomplete records and compliance problems with the campaign, but not [...]

By Bob Hall| 2010-08-25T13:44:42-04:00 August 25th, 2010|Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Two quick updates: One fun, one bum. Last Thursday’s LINK described the growing protest over Target’s decision to use its corporate money to meddle in a gubernatorial election in Minnesota. One sure sign of a protest movement is folks creating their own way to deliver a message and have some fun, too. Check out the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:46-05:00 August 24th, 2010|Link-of-the-Day|0 Comments

Monday, August 23, 2010

The 14 chemical companies that put the most residents in the US at risk from poisonous gas leaks or terrorist attack include JCI Jones’s Charlotte facility that manufactures and distributes chlorine, sulfur dioxide and other hazardous products. A new report by US PIRG says over 800,000 people live within the immediate danger zone around the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2010-08-23T14:58:56-04:00 August 23rd, 2010|Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments