37 results for "campaign finance reform"

Doris Haddock- Hero for Campaign Finance reform, silenced at 100

At age 89, “Granny D” Doris Haddock walked across the country to protest the selling out of our elected officials. With the country now looking to have corporate America buy the next election, she won’t be here to suffer the results. “It just infuriates me!” she said, balling her hands into fists and striking the Read More

Ohio campaign finance and the A.D.A.

On Thursday, Oct 20, 2016 I made the journey to Columbus to throw myself at the mercy of the Ohio Elections Commission. The local Montgomery County Board of (S)Elections had turned me in for failure to file my 2014 annual campaign finance report. Only thing is, I didn’t run in 2014- or 2015, or collect Read More

The costs of campaigns

I’ll let you in on a little secret, the real reason we don’t have campaign finance reform is not because the politicians like raising money and figuring out ways to effectively win elections. It’s because there is a huge industry that it supports, and the biggest player is the mass media. Politicians buy TV ads, Read More

AJ Wagner for Mayor site designed by DC firm Code and Politics

Questions for A.J. Wagner- our future mayor

Last night I let the community know about A.J. Wagner’s new Wagner for Mayor website. One of my readers has already claimed the twitter account that the Washington. D,C,. developers failed to claim, despite telling the world to follow @WagnerforMayor His fundraising button to ActBlue doesn’t work yet either. And, the brilliant D.C. developer also Read More

Complete list of candidates for Congress in OH-10, Montgomery, Greene and Fayette County

In today’s Dayton Daily News we get their first and perhaps last attempt to cover the candidates. A short bio provided by the candidates, a candidate-supplied picture and answers to two questions. This is a voter’s guide– not reporting. No reporter has called, they sent a reporter to one candidates night where no story was Read More

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