Clean Elections Forum From The Drum Major Institute, Sept. 17, 2007; 8AM
I suggest you cancel your previous engagements, rsvp and go the the DMI forum next Monday Morning. Election victories may go mostly to the moneyed, unless stringent reforms are effected. They'll even feed you a little. See you there.
"Getting Special Interest Money Out of State Elections" with Activist Dennis Burke
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2007 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
As an activist and former director of Arizona Common Cause, Dennis Burke helped lead the1998 effort to pass the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act by ballot proposition. The Act provides voluntary public financing to candidates for state-level elected office who agree to run without private campaign contributions. The system is funded by surcharges on civil and criminal fines and a voluntary tax check-off. Arizona’s Clean Elections system is credited with increasing the number of women and people of color running for state office, boosting voter turnout in communities of color, and reducing the influence of special interest campaign money.
DENNIS BURKE
Former Director, Arizona Common Cause
A panel discussion on clean elections will feature:
HON. LIZ KRUEGER
New York State Senate
More info; rsvp phone & email after the jump
CHARLIE KING
National Director, National Action Network
JESSICA WISNESKI
Clean Money, Clean Elections
Coordinator, Citizen Action of New York
Moderated by
ANDREA BATISTA SCHLESINGER
Executive Director, Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2007 8:00 a.m. - 10:00a.m.
The Harvard Club
27 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
New York, NY 10036
Space is limited. RSVP and registration are required. Admission is free.
Please RSVP by e-mail to dmi@drummajorinstitute.org or by phone to 646.274.5700
Light breakfast will be served.
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Are you familiar with the Arizona Act,
Submitted by Daniel Millstone on 10 September 2007 - 10:30am.
which I gather functions somewhat like NYC's. Our campaign finance board does have some bugs -- like self-financed billionaires and rich campaign coffers in elections without opponents.
Compliments on your blog
Submitted by SunlightNayyirah (not verified) on 10 September 2007 - 2:09pm.
Dear admins at The Daily Gotham,
My name is Nayyirah and I work on the Congresspedia.org wiki - a non-partisan wiki reporting project on Congress. I saw that you sometimes cover the members of Congress from New York and we'd like to put you on our blogroll for that state. The Sunlight Foundation, which co-operates Congresspedia, also has a monthly email list that sends updates on free, open-source blogging tools and opportunities for grant money. Is it OK if we put you on that, too?
Thanks,
Nayyirah
Heh.
I'll be there; I'm their designated liveblogger.