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    • Obama's In Control: No More Lobbyist Contributions To Democratic Party

      Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post

      The DNC and the Obama Campaign are unified and working together to elect Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Our presumptive nominee has pledged not to take donations from Washington lobbyists and from today going forward the DNC makes that pledge as well," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.

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    • Gregoire wants public financing of Washington Court races

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      This is a terrific idea - great way to experiment with public finance: In the state budget she proposed Tuesday, Gregoire included a $4.4 million pilot program to make public financing available to Supreme Court and Court of Appeals candidates. Candidates would have to raise a qualifying amount on their own and agree to follow a clean campaign code

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    • Interest groups have taken over elections, panel fears

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      State Public Disclosure Commission members Thursday said independent campaigns funded by unions, corporations and trade groups are corrupting elections and they want to look at bans and restrictions. The disclosure commission (PDC) appeared alarmed by a staff briefing outlining almost $2.7 million in independent expenditures so far this year. More than two-thirds of that money went into state Supreme Court primary races.

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    Jeff comments on:

    Obama's In Control: No More Lobbyist Contributions To Democratic Party

    This is an outstanding start to campaign finance reform. I wonder if they will exclude corporate donations to the party.

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    12:13 pm 6/05/08
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    Gregoire wants public financing of Washington Court races

    Could be a great step on the long road to get big money out of politics. Cheers to Gregoire for knowing how to move the ball downfield.

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    9:44 pm 12/20/06
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