This is a kickstarter campaign for a filmmaker who is focused on the electoral college, gerrymandering, proportional representation, and the two-party system.
Charlie Cooper
H: 410-578-8291
C: 410-624-6095
“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis
“Before 2010, 23 states had bans on corporations and union funding of outside spending. As a result of the court’s ruling, these states had to change their campaign laws. We can then compare the changes before and after Citizens United in these 23 states with the same changes in the 27 states whose laws did not change. The effect of the court’s ruling is then simply the differences between these two before-and-after comparisons.
“We find that Citizens United increased the GOP’s average seat share in the state legislature by five percentage points.”
Charlie Cooper
H: 410-578-8291
C: 410-624-6095
“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis
https://www.ft.com/content/5060844a-0420-11e7-ace0-1ce02ef0def9
The $2 billion spent in the 2016 federal election cycle doesn’t count their research and support staff or the dark money that Wall Street firms or individuals may have contributed or spent.
Charlie Cooper
H: 410-578-8291
C: 410-624-6095
“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis
