Kentucky's outgoing governor just gave thousands of people the right to vote - Vox

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/25/9799148/kentucky-felons-voting-rights

A Wealthy Governor and His Friends Are Remaking Illinois - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/us/politics/illinois-campaign-money-bruce-rauner.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Ballot initiative to force state lawmakers to wear campaign contributors' logos | Examiner.com

http://www.examiner.com/article/ballot-initiative-to-force-state-lawmakers-to-wear-campaign-contributers-logos

Donald Trump Is Saving Our Democracy -- NYMag

In the short time since Trump declared his candidacy, he has performed a public service by exposing, however crudely and at times inadvertently, the posturings of both the Republicans and the Democrats and the foolishness and obsolescence of much of the political culture they share. He is, as many say, making a mockery of the entire political process with his bull-in-a-china-shop antics. But the mockery in this case may be overdue, highly warranted, and ultimately a spur to reform rather than the crime against civic order that has scandalized those who see him, in the words of the former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, as "dangerous to democracy."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/frank-rich-in-praise-of-donald-trump.html

November 2015 Pew poll on money in politics

http://www.people-press.org/2015/11/23/6-perceptions-of-elected-officials-and-the-role-of-money-in-politics/

 

 

Charlie Cooper

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www.getmoneyoutmd.org 

 

“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis

 

ReFormers Caucus Statement Calls Money in Politics a Crisis with Solutions | Issue One

https://www.issueone.org/reformers-caucus-statement-calls-money-politics-crisis-solutions/

The Birth of the Super PAC By Renée Loth via The Boston Globe - Free Speech for People

http://freespeechforpeople.org/the-birth-of-the-super-pac-by-renee-loth-via-the-boston-globe/

Secret donors fuel Democratic political powerhouse | Center for Public Integrity

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/11/18/18875/secret-donors-fuel-democratic-political-powerhouse?utm_source=hootsuite

Floyd Abrams on Campaign Finance, Inequality, Shelby County, and More | Election Law Blog

http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77590

The Koch intelligence agency - POLITICO

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/the-koch-brothers-intelligence-agency-215943#ixzz3rrg8nYJ6

Sugar-Coated Capitalism Is No Free Market - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2015/11/16/sugar-coated-capitalism-is-no-free-market/

How Citizen Funding Systems Empower Everyone | Issue One

https://www.issueone.org/citizen-funding-systems-empower-everyone/

Meet Mrs. Gil Fulbright - the honest political wife

 

http://honestgil.com/honest-political-ads-mrs-fulbright/

 

Charlie Cooper

H: 410-578-8291

C: 410-624-6095

www.getmoneyoutmd.org 

 

“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis

 

Learning From History How to Curb Corruption | Richard L. McCormick

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-l-mccormick/learning-from-history-how_b_8479808.html

The Most Conservative And Most Liberal Elite Law Schools | FiveThirtyEight

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-conservative-and-most-liberal-elite-law-schools/?ex_cid=538twitter

Bipartisan ‘ReFormers Caucus’ Launches in Washington, Demands Action on Money-in-Politics Reform | Issue One

https://www.issueone.org/bipartisan-reformers-caucus-launches-washington-demands-action-money-politics-reform/

More than 100 former governors and members of Congress take a stand for solutions to money in politics | Issue One

https://www.issueone.org/100-former-governors-members-congress-take-stand-solutions-money-politics/

Congress cashes in on insider trading

https://represent.us/action/insider-trading-list/?akid=8520.551145.TL8Vel&rd=1&share=&t=1

 

 

Charlie Cooper

H: 410-578-8291

C: 410-624-6095

www.getmoneyoutmd.org 

 

“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis

 

Pennsylvania Logs Costliest Supreme Court Race in U.S. History - JAS

http://www.justiceatstake.org/newsroom/press-releases-16824/?pennsylvania_logs_costliest_supreme_court_race_in_us_history&show=news&newsID=20965

Anthony Kennedy's Citizens United Disclosure Salve 'Not Working'

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5637c481e4b0631799134b92

Koch brothers' higher-ed investments advance political goals | Center for Public Integrity

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/10/30/18684/koch-brothers-higher-ed-investments-advance-political-goals

It ISN’T crazy to print money: That’s what banking supremo Lord Turner will tell the IMF this week – despite Bank Governor’s warning | This is Money

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-3298431/It-ISN-T-crazy-print-money-s-banking-supremo-Lord-Turner-tell-IMF-week-despite-Bank-Governor-s-warning.html

How Jeb Bush may have just outsourced a key part of his campaign - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/01/how-jeb-bush-may-have-just-outsourced-a-key-part-of-his-campaign/?postshare=8141446428383603

Foreign Affairs Focus: R. Glenn Hubbard on Campaign Finance Reform

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/videos/2013-07-03/foreign-affairs-focus-r-glenn-hubbard-campaign-finance-reform