Romney agrees: “We’ve got to get the money out of the teachers unions going into campaigns.” Posted on September 26, 2012 (October 16, 2020) Democracy Amendments It’s being widely reported that Mitt Romney yesterday called for limits on campaign spending by teachers’ unions. A blog post at The Nation puts this succinctly in perspective. The constitutional amendments we support would even-handedly enable the elimination of politcal contributions from for-profit corporations, incorporated non-profits, and incorporated labor unions alike. (For more on this, see our analysis of various bills here.) Read More
Report: Citizens United ruling accounts for 78 percent of 2012 election spending Posted on September 26, 2012 (October 16, 2020) Challenging Super PACs By Adam Gabbatt, The GuardianMonday, September 24, 2012 (Excerpt:) Almost $465m of outside money has been spent on the US presidential election campaign so far, including $365m that can be attributed to the supreme court’s landmark Citizens United ruling, according to a report released on Monday. Super Pacs, which came into effect following the 2010 Citizens United verdict, accounted for $272m of the expenditure in the study, conducted by the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit organisation devoted to increasing transparency in government. Read More