12-23 |
Citizens United Is Number One. What Are the Other 9 Top Money-in-Politics Stories of 2010? |
12-21 |
Special-Interest Funding Declines in [NC] Court Elections as 77% of the Top Judges Qualify for Public Funds
|
12-20 |
Keep Arizona Elections Clean
|
12-8 |
Tennant: Focus On Candidates, Not How Much Money They Have Or How Much They
Can Raise |
11-29 |
Supreme Court Takes Aim Yet Again At Campaign Finance Laws |
11-19 |
Manchin's 1996 race
records sought |
11-17 |
Coalition Members, Legislators
Highlight Advantages of Public Financing - Supreme Court candidates will
have alternative to special interest funding in 2012 |
11-17 |
Citizens for Clean Elections praises former Gov. Joe Manchin for starting a
public finance pilot program |
11-15 |
Clean Elections Advocates Promote Cure for Mud-Slinging |
11-8 |
After Energy Money Flowed in Elections, CA Poised to Lead on Climate Again |
11-2 |
Election Watch Parties to Follow Money & Winners |
11-2 |
Final Senate filings show Raese outraised by Manchin |
11-1 |
Big Oil spends $69.5m on ads to get the Congress it wants |
11-1 |
Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law |
11-1 |
Coal money in politics |
10-31 |
Drowning in Campaign Cash |
10-31 |
W.Va. legislative races
attract $5M-plus |
10-29 |
Coal Industry Spending to Sway Next Congress |
10-28 |
An avalanche of cash in judicial campaigns, Pt. 1 |
10-27 |
"Campaign Finance: Watergate II
Scandal Ahead?" |
10-26 |
Nonparty,
noncandidate groups have spent $12.7 million in W.Va. |
10-26 |
Third party
groups spend nearly $13M on WV races |
10-25 |
Campaign Cash: How Citizens United Will Change Elections Forever |
10-25 |
The Supreme Court Sold Out
Our Democracy -- How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of Our Elections |
10-25 |
Let's review: Spike Maynard and Massey |
10-22 |
GOP's Maynard
reaps Massey cash for House bid |
10-7 |
Court candidates discuss financing, appeals system |
10-5 |
Supreme Court
candidates differ on need for intermediate court |
10-1 |
How the campaign finance system is eroding confidence in Congress |
9-29 |
Brothers on nationwide
walk rail against Supreme Court election decision |
9-27 |
Corporate $$$ = Free Political Speech: Two Brothers Can't Take It Sitting
Down |
9-7 |
Fracking: Is Our “Democracy”
Passing Gas? |
8-27 |
Manchin raises nearly
$1.2 million since entering Senate race |
8-25 |
Manchin skipped
debate for fundraiser |
8-21 |
W.Va. could be test
case of 'Citizens United' decision, analyst says |
8-17 |
A Rising Tsunami of
Corporate Political Money |
8-17 |
Manchin raises
$530k in US Senate bid |
8-16 |
Campaign contributions to judges skyrocket across U.S. |
8-16 |
Study: Pa. judicial elections big on special-interest donations |
8-16 |
REPORT: Partisan Spending On Judicial Elections Soars |
8-9 |
Corporate Campaign Bucks Aiming To Stop Mine Safety Rules? |
8-5 |
Corporate Money Aids Centers Linked to Lawmakers |
8-2 |
More on coal, money and politics |
7-31 |
Citizens, or
corporations, united? Election funding decision could have major impact on
W.Va. races |
7-30 |
Kentucky judicial elections need to stay on high road |
7-29 |
When gov’t and business align, both become more powerful at the citizens’
expense |
7-29 |
The Supreme Court's present for Rand Paul |
7-28 |
Coal industry ponders fight against Kentucky democrats Jack Conway, Ben
Chandler |
7-28 |
Will Coal Bosses Band Together To Influence Elections? |
7-28 |
Coal companies eye targeting congressional Dems |
7-23 |
Massey's Don Blankenship Shoveling Out Campaign Cash Again |
7-16 |
Second Circuit Reaffirms Constitutionality of Public Financing |
7-9 |
Likely Byrd Successors Raked In Donations From Big Coal |
7-8 |
Big Money Drives Up the Betting on the Marcellus Shale |
6-18 |
State Election Commission Files Proposed Legislative Rules For Supreme Court
Public Financing |
6-18 |
Loopholes Grow in Bill to Offset Ruling on Campaigns |
6-16 |
Tennant makes first contribution to public funding for Supreme Court races |
6-11 |
Public Funding For State Supreme Court Races Goes Into Effect; Tennant Makes
First Contribution To Fund |
6-9 |
U.S. Supreme Court blocks matching funds provision of Clean Elections |
6-8 |
NYT - "Justices block matching funds for candidates in Arizona" |
6-8 |
NYT
editorial - "Keeping politics safe for the rich" |
5-24 |
Arizona's Clean Elections law upheld in court |
5-2 |
8 Words That Could Save Our
Country |
4-30 |
Howard Swint: Justice Benjamin must resign |
4-28 |
Can a Supreme Court seat be bought? |
4-20 |
KING
COAL SAYS, 'LIVE FREE OR DIE' |
4-18 |
Mine disaster spotlights
cozy lobbyists-regulator ties |
4-16 |
Massey CEO should have spent less energy berating regulators |
4-11 |
Judge Cash:
Campaign cleanup |
4-8 |
Mining interests are heavily invested in Capitol Hill |
4-6 |
Coal, corruption and campaign finance reform |
4-5 |
Do campaign dollars sway judges? |
4-5 |
Gazette LTE:
Reforming the way W.Va. seats justices is good |
3-28 |
W.Va.
election legislation could attract lawsuits
|
3-28 |
Howard Swint: Citizens United ruling a debacle |
3-24 |
Supreme Court public campaign finance bill signed |
3-20 |
From Scandal
to Example in West Virginia |
3-17 |
Honoring Granny D: Crusader
for Democracy |
3-15 |
Ethics law supporters say fight isn't over |
3-14 |
Clean Elections Update: Supreme Court Public
Financing Pilot Project Sent to Governor's Desk |
3-13 |
As W.Va. session ends, ethics and tax items stalled
|
3-13 |
W.Va. Senate approves campaign spending bill |
3-13 |
Anti-trust suit scuttles vote-machine deal |
3-12 |
W.Va. lawmakers try
stern action on campaign spending |
3-11 |
Clean Elections Update |
3-11 |
Fees taken out of
public campaign financing plan |
3-10 |
Julie Archer and
Carol Warren: Finance court elections |
3-10 |
'Granny
D' Dead: Doris Haddock, Campaign Finance Reform Activist, Dies At 100 |
3-9 |
Proposed
fees may doom W.Va. election funding bill |
3-8 |
Voters want candidates to use taxpayer money in W.Va., poll shows |
3-8 |
W.Va.
getting attention for election funding bill |
3-8 |
Clean Elections Update: More good news today on
our Supreme Court Public Financing Pilot Project! |
3-8 |
Public financing of court races gains strength |
3-8 |
Public election funding
bill passes Senate committee |
3-4 |
House Legislation Targets Free Speech |
3-4 |
House passes
bill to allow public campaign financing |
3-3 |
Clean Elections Update |
3-3 |
WV House of Delegates OKs public funding of court races |
3-3 |
Governor's session
agenda intact |
3-1 |
House takes on campaign
finance again |
3-1 |
Good Chance WV will Publicly Finance 2012 Supreme Court Races |
2-28 |
Decision Could Allow Anonymous Political Contributions by Businesses |
2-26 |
House to weigh public
funding of court races |
2-26 |
Clean Elections Update |
2-23 |
W.Va.
lawmakers reacting to major elections ruling |
2-22 |
Supreme Court Pilot Project passes House
Judiciary! |
2-19 |
Clean Elections Update |
2-19 |
Limit studied on how quickly an official can turn lobbyist |
2-19 |
What
you need to know about lobbyists in W.Va. |
2-13 |
U.S. Supreme Court Corporate Political Contributions Can Hamper Justice:
Here Is A Prime Example |
2-7 |
First "Corporate Person" Runs for Political Office |
2-6 |
Earth and the Balance of Powers: What the Citizens United Ruling Means for
the Environment |
2-5 |
Congress Must Act in Wake of Supreme Court Ruling on Campaign Financing,
League of Women Voters Says |
2-4 |
Bill Introduced Calls For Constitutional Amendment to Tackle Campaign
Finance Ruling |
2-3 |
Clean Elections Update |
1-27 |
Jim
Hightower | The Supreme Coup |
1-22 |
24
States’ Laws Open to Attack After Campaign Finance Ruling |
1-22 |
W.Va.
lawmakers eye Supreme Court campaign ruling |
1-22 |
Delegate: Public financing program needed |
1-22 |
W.Va. eyes Supreme
Court ruling on campaign funding |
1-22 |
Shed a Tear for Our
Democracy |
1-21 |
NY Times commentary and coverage of Citizens United decision:
How Corporate Money Will Reshape Politics
Editorial: The Court’s Blow to Democracy
Lobbyists Get Potent Weapon in Campaign Ruling
Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit |
1-21 |
Charleston Gazette Editorial ~ Company cash: Flooding into politics? |
1-21 |
Doris "Granny D" Haddock | Response to the Supreme Court |
1-21 |
Split court eases
limits on business election spending |
1-21 |
The State Elections Enforcement Commission reacts to the United States
Supreme Court’s ruling |
1-20 |
Ethics bill passes
House unanimously |
1-20 |
Clean Elections Update |
1-18 |
Caperton, recusal and judicial elections |
1-15 |
Critics say plan to
reform courts not enough |
1-14 |
Manchin proposes public
financing for Supreme Court elections |
1-14 |
Financial disclosure
bill advances in Legislature |
1-14 |
Session:
State of State call |
1-10 |
Election ruling could
change U.S. politics |
1-10 |
Tom Miller: Limited legislation to be enacted before March 13 |
1-8 |
A Setback for Democracy - U.S. Supreme Court Rolls Back Election Spending
Limits |