public financing of elections

• Urban Perspective; Public Financing of Elections in Local Communities

Public campaign financing enables candidates to wage competitive campaigns even though they lack personal wealth or access to wealthy campaign contributors. Public financing reduces candidate reliance on special interest money and, consequently, may change the reality of many government officials trading political favors for campaign contributions. Public financing is also used as an incentive for candidates to agree to campaign spending limits, which the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled must be voluntary in order to be constitutional. Full public financing ("Clean Money, Clean Elections") systems provide qualified candidates with all of the funding necessary to run a campaign. Once a candidate meets the fundraising qualification threshold, the candidate must cease all fundraising activity....

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• July 31, 2009

• James L. Buckley, United States Senator From the State of New York, Et Al., Plaintiffs, v. Honorable Francis R. Valeo, Secretary, United States Senate, Et Al., Defendants. Center for Public Financing of Elections, Et Al., James C. Calaway of Houston, Texas, Intervenors., 519 F.2d 821 (D.C. Cir. 1975)

Brice M. Clagett, Washington, D. C., and Ralph K. Winter, Jr., New Haven, Conn., of the bar of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, pro hac vice, by spec...

• Federal Circuits

• How to finish off the GOP machine: the Machiavellian case for public financing of elections.

Early this summer, in one of the periodic manifestations of the herd mentality for which this city's pundit class is known, official Washington decide...

• Washington Monthly
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 1, January 2007

• Re: Congressional Hearing On Fair Elections (Public Financing of Elections) Legislation

To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Rick Bielke of Fair Elections Now Campaign, +1-202-293- 0222

• U.S. Newswire
• July 27, 2009

• Campaign Financing Broad Reform, Now Tired of Being Accused of Being Too Cozy with Special Interests? Public Financing of Elections Would Take Care of That.

Gov. Jim Doyle's conversion from a believer in having a citizens board appoint the head of the Department of Natural Resources could very well be a matter of a mind legitimately changed. But if the governor is finding that argument a hard sell, it's because $4.14 million from interests opposing this change have flowed into his campaign coffers since 2003. This is according to figures released last week by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign and reported by the Journal Sentinel.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• September 09, 2009

• Public Financing of Elections Needed

The November 2008 presidential election is still more than 11/2 years away, but 17 candidates are already seeking the Democratic or Republican nomination. Anyone who hasn't declared his candidacy risks not being taken seriously despite the fact that every candidate seems obligated to declare he or she is "in it to win it," which is probably another way to say "I'm not Dennis Kucinich.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• March 27, 2007

• A Supreme Injustice

Pass campaign-finance laws. The remedy endorsed by President [Obama] in his SOTU address - new legislation - is the most practical near-term response to Citizens United. The ruling gave organizations like Public Campaign, which lobbies on behalf of public financing of elections, new ammunition and a boost of organizing energy. On its website (publicampaign. org), Public Campaign directs readers to a petition in support of the "Fair Elections Now Act" (found at campaignmoney org). The Act "will allow candidates to run for office using a mixture of small donations and limited public financing." It would set a limit of $100 on individual donations, and the bill has bi-partisan support: it is sponsored by two Democratic senators, a Democratic representative, and a Republican representative....

• In These Times
• March 11, 2010

• Reclaim State Elections ; Legislature Should Get Behind Plan for Public Financing of Campaigns

At a high point in his State of the State speech early this year, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for the public financing of election campaigns. He rightly recognized it as a way to help our state legislators clean up their collective act and limit the corrosive influence of money on their decisions. His remarks were met with a round of applause, and then more dithering from the Republican-led State Senate, which has behaved as though it wants the public financing idea to go away.

• Buffalo News
• November 29, 2011

• Public Financing of Elections Now Law in State

Rell signs landmark reform bill; admits flaws still need remedies Using Connecticut's historic Old State House as a stage, Gov. M. Jodi Rell Wednesday signed into law landmark campaign election reforms that she said could trigger a national trend. I am standing before Gilbert Stuart's great portrait of George Washington, who led the country in the American Revolution," said Rell. "By signing this bill into law today, perhaps we can ignite another revolution - perhaps we can revolutionize our system of elections and how they are financed.

• New Haven Register
• March 19, 2007

• Lawmakers Discuss Job Creation, Economy

By Angela Carter Register Staff NEW HAVEN -- Job creation and preservation, red light cameras, energy policy reform and public financing of elections were the dominant themes Saturday, as members of the public queried New Haven's all-Democrat General Assembly delegation.

• New Haven Register
• January 24, 2010