S ince the election, almost every group in town has been meeting to develop a position on campaign finance reform. The Brookings Institution’s Tom Mann has organized a working group that holds luncheons and has its own web page (www.brookings.edu/gs/campaign/home.htm). Organizations from Common Cause to Citizen Action are holding meetings of what they call the […]
Campaign Spending
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Reform Beyond the Beltway
While Congress is deadlocked, real campaign finance reform is moving ahead in the states.
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Of our Time: Democracy v. Dollar
D emocracy, many people have said, is a matter of faith, but why, dear Lord, must our faith be tested so often? Lately, the role of money in political campaigns has been mocking our civic creed. “Here the people rule,” we are taught, and we would like to think so. But if the voters (and […]
