Stealing Elections via Voter Suppression: Supreme Court OK's the Practice

https://therealnews.com/stories/stealing-elections-via-voter-suppression-supreme-court-oks-the-practice

SuperPAC comes to Baltimore County Executive race

http://towsonflyer.com/2018/06/06/vicki-almond-to-get-support-from-new-super-pac/

 

Tactics from federal races are filtering down to local level.

 

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

 

 

Mega-donors back Nikki Haley fund

https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/mega-donors-gave-k-boost-to-haley-s-great-day/article_9bce06de-5854-5044-96c3-a2fac35d6a54.html

 

Adelson and Koch Brothers are putting big money into South Carolina Republican primary races for State Senate.

 

Charlie Cooper

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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

 

 

New poll on Constitutional Amendment on money in politics

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/05/10/21739/study-most-americans-want-kill-citizens-united-constitutional-amendment

Republicans and Democrats agree on need for amendment.

Charlie Cooper

Ohio voters say yes to districting reform

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2018/05/ohio_votes_to_reform_congressi_1.html

 

The measure will make Congressional districts more compact.

 

Charlie Cooper

Mulvaney: "Bankers should pay up to talk to Congress"

http://www.newsweek.com/mick-mulvaney-warns-bankers-i-only-spoke-lobbyists-who-paid-me-900303

 

Pres. Trumps’s budget direct AND interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told a group of bankers that they have to pay up to get their way in Congress.

 

Charlie Cooper

H: 410-578-8291

M: 410-624-6095

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

 

 

SCOTUS will hear Texas racial gerrymandering case

https://www.brennancenter.org/legal-work/perez-v-perry

 

U. S. District Court found 2 Texas districting plans to be unconstitutionally and unlawfully biased. State has appealed to Supreme Court and oral arguments will be heard on April 24, 2018.

 

Charlie Cooper

H: 410-578-8291

M: 410-624-6095

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