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The wealthiest American families have built a private tax system for the rich. https://t.co/fQeoW47Kqj
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Article V | Making Amends

https://constitutionalconvention.wordpress.com/category/article-v/

Soros-Funded Groups Attack the Article V Movement : Our American Constitution

http://constitution.i2i.org/2015/12/05/soros-funded-groups-attack-the-article-v-movement/

https://t.co/09VDRtITsI

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNFItG4FLhs4JZMPWepjgRiAlyYl-A&cnm=a272426d351454f0e30df6b365c65d9f&sr=1&clid=a272426d351454f0e30df6b365c65d9f&cid=52779016007380&ei=UBx-VrDLNYnN3QHDl7fYAQ&sig2=dqGLX4CIZZ1kQhlbMKMDGQ&rid=e7c67c5e-55f4-475e-9f2a-a48e08f9ea86&url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/opinion/political-dark-money-just-got-darker.html&ct4=CgoKA2N1cxIDY3VzGA0gCCgOMAI4Aw%3D%3D%0A

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNE-5OjOKbiFJ05RD5NgeykzknImsw&cnm=a272426d351454f0e30df6b365c65d9f&sr=1&clid=a272426d351454f0e30df6b365c65d9f&cid=52779009591022&ei=UBx-VrDLNYnN3QHDl7fYAQ&sig2=1nQqXhmbQQ81s_nImlnM5Q&rid=e7c67c5e-55f4-475e-9f2a-a48e08f9ea86&url=http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2015/12/the-supreme-court-as-a-2016-campaign-issue/&ct4=CgoKA2N1cxIDY3VzGA0gCCgOOAM%3D%0A

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/264128-clinton-casting-wider-net-for-cash

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNEN0AKgVbLTWyVovjhTSL0Y0GcIXA&cnm=a272426d351454f0e30df6b365c65d9f&sr=1&clid=a272426d351454f0e30df6b365c65d9f&ei=ykl8VvOoAsnbpwfptq3YCg&sig2=EI6ZrJ2nnJCnwdxDqNfepQ&rid=40b43090-f2b9-4a7a-a5e8-c15cf1c7f761&url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/the_constitutions_article_v_not_the_10th_amendment_gives_state_legislatures_their_power_in_the_amendment_process.html&ct4=CgwKBHNyY2gSBHNyY2gYDSALKA44Aw%3D%3D%0A

https://t.co/WzFn6M7EhB

Clinton Super PAC Donor Is Former Goldman Exec and Foreclosure Crisis Profiteer

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/04/clinton-super-pac-donor-is-former-goldman-exec-and-foreclosure-crisis-profiteer/

Buckley v. Valeo at 40 | Demos

http://www.demos.org/publication/buckley-v-valeo-40#.VnLElBpXdbk.facebook

A Campaign Finance Reform Win in Hawaii | CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

http://www.citizensforethics.org/blog/entry/a-campaign-finance-reform-win-in-hawaii

Revealed: how Google enlisted members of US Congress it bankrolled to fight $6bn EU antitrust case | World news | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/17/google-lobbyists-congress-antitrust-brussels-eu

For the GOP, A Small Step Forward on Campaign-Finance Reform

http://prospect.org/blog/checks/gop-small-step-forward-campaign-finance-reform

Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Rescuing Our Democracy and Our Economy by Transforming the Supreme Court’s Flawed Approach to Money in Politics | Demos

http://www.demos.org/publication/breaking-vicious-cycle-rescuing-our-democracy-and-our-economy-transforming-supreme-court

President Obama Can Expose Corporate Election Spending

http://otherwords.org/president-obama-can-expose-corporate-election-spending/

Thanks to Republicans, Nearly a Quarter of Florida’s Black Citizens Can’t Vote

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/09/floridas-ex-felons-struggle-to-regain-their-voting-rights/

How Judicial Elections Impact Criminal Cases | Brennan Center for Justice

https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/how-judicial-elections-impact-criminal-cases

US Pensions Squander Retirees' Cash On Fees For Underperforming Hedge Funds | Zero Hedge

This is defyingly a money in politics issue as well as campaign contributions and money going to those funds are related.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-09/us-pensions-squander-retirees-cash-fees-underperforming-hedge-funds

Thanks to Republicans, Nearly a Quarter of Florida’s Black Citizens Can’t Vote

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/09/floridas-ex-felons-struggle-to-regain-their-voting-rights/

Bernie Is Right: The Military-Industrial Complex Is Alive and Well - In These Times

http://inthesetimes.com/article/18665/paris-attacks-show-the-military-industrial-complex-is-alive-and-well

Justices appear split in Texas redistricting challenge - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justices-appear-split-in-texas-redistricting-challenge/2015/12/08/c803db58-9de9-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202

The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/11/us/politics/2016-presidential-election-super-pac-donors.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0

How the Founders inserted the amendments convention into the Constitution - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/12/08/how-the-founders-inserted-the-amendments-convention-into-the-constitution/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_volokh

Let Math Save Our Democracy - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/opinion/sunday/let-math-save-our-democracy.html?_r=0

Money power of the gun lobby

www.publicintegrity.org/2015/12/03/18910/nra-still-wields-real-if-misunderstood-political-power

 

“In the decade before Citizens United, from the 2000 election cycle to 2010, . . . pro-gun interests so thoroughly dominated electoral spending as to render gun control forces all but irrelevant, having directly donated fully 28 times the amount of their opponents in House and Senate races . . . . Since the Citizens United decision, gun control interests have gained . . . thanks largely to independent expenditures totaling at least $11.6 million by . . .  Michael Bloomberg and groups tied to Bloomberg . . . still just a fraction of that $46 million in post-2010 gun rights money.”

 

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

 

Open Letter: Let’s Sit-In to Save Democracy From the Billionaire Class | The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/article/open-letter-lets-get-arrested-to-save-democracy-from-the-billionaire-class/

Dark Money and the Future of Judicial Elections » The National Judicial College

http://www.judges.org/dark-money-and-the-future-of-judicial-elections/

Wealthy donors shielded until AFTER L. A. School Board election

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-charter-donations-20151202-story.html

 

 

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

 

A new proposal: tax the PACs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-simple-fix-for-big-money-in-politics-tax-campaign-expenditures/2015/12/01/3ed2a60e-4dba-11e5-84df-923b3ef1a64b_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

 

 

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

 

Supreme Court rejects campaign finance law appeal by Hawaii electrical contractor - Pacific Business News

http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/blog/morning_call/2015/11/supreme-court-rejects-campaign-finance-law-appeal.html

Next Chance To Gut Campaign Finance Law Heads For Supreme Court

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/565ca969e4b079b2818b3c57?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067