Revealed: RNC and DNC awash with corporate cash from donors seeking access

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/23/revealed-rnc-dnc-corporate-cash-donors-seeking-access?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Outlook

 

Fundraising materials show that both parties are hoping to lure $1m donations from corporations and wealthy individuals in exchange for access and advertising opportunities.

 

Marty Wulfe

Congress showers Christmas gifts on health care corps

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/congress-showers-health-care-industry-with-multi-billion-victory-after-wagging-finger-at-it-for-much-of-2019/2019/12/19/9422aa6a-2028-11ea-9146-6c3a3ab1be6c_story.html?utm_campaign=evening_edition&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

"...pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, insurance companies and medical device manufacturers practically ran the table in Congress, winning hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks and other gifts through old-fashioned lobbying, re-exerting their political prowess. 'It's the 'no special interest left behind bill' of 2019,' [said one observer]."

Charlie Cooper

Wisconsin court ruling may suppress vote in 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/18/wisconsin-rightwing-group-will-voter-purge

 

Right-wing group wins lawsuit.

 

Charlie Cooper

 

 

GMOM and Wolf-PAC in the news over Article V strategy

https://thefulcrum.us/article-v

 

This article features GMOM volunteer Marty Wulfe.

 

Charlie Cooper

 

 

 

Maryland Online Transparency Act struck down

https://thefulcrum.us/maryland-political-advertising-law

 

“… a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals says the law unconstitutionally singles out political expression for special scrutiny and promises a "chilling effect" on free speech. The unanimous ruling on Friday, upholding a federal trial judge's position, is the latest in a series of federal judicial decisions against efforts to regulate campaign financing.”

 

We supported this law to require disclosure of online political advertising. We need more details to see how broadly it was overturned by the courts.

 

Charlie Cooper

Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM)

 

 

 

How Citizens United Reshaped Elections | Brennan Center for Justice

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-citizens-united-reshaped-elections 

Report: Fundraising Expectations for Legislative Candidates Skyrocketing – Maryland Matters

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2019/12/03/report-fundraising-expectations-for-legislative-candidates-on-the-rise/ 

Maryland legislative candidates raised much more money in 2018

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2019/12/03/report-fundraising-expectations-for-legislative-candidates-on-the-rise/

 

 

Charlie Cooper

Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM)

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