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I love North Carolina. My family and I have vacationed on its beaches pretty much every year for the past three decades. I sent my daughter to one of its superb public universities. I’m absolutely devoted to its barbeque. I’ve even learned to admire – though I can’t cheer for – Duke basketball. But I’ve [...]

The Montana Senate has become the first Republican-led chamber in the country to pass a resolution in support of a constitutional amendment that would reverse the Citizens United ruling.  The resolution, passed on February 27, is in response to Initiative I-166, passed by 75% of Montana voters last November.   I-166 instructed Montana’s elected officials [...]

Shut it down, Mr. President. Organizing for Action, the Obama administration’s new “independent,” non-profit advocacy group, should be put out of business and its plan to schedule quarterly meetings with the President for its big contributors and fundraisers should be scrapped. “Access to the President should never be for sale,” Common Cause said in a [...]

If you’ve got plenty of money – and I mean PLENTY – and you want to spend gobs and gobs of it electing political candidates and helping political parties, you may be pleased about today’s news from the Supreme Court. But if you’re worried about government corruption and you’d like our elected officials to pay [...]

(Crossposted from the Huffington Post) January 22, 2013 Dear Mr. President: Your inaugural address was an inspiring call to action by “we the people” to address the great challenges posed by economic inequality, climate change, immigration reform, human rights and security at home and around the world. I write to suggest respectfully that we cannot [...]