VOH CONTINUES THE FIGHT TO GET BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS!
Campaign funding advances
Derrick DePledge, Honolulu Advertiser
April 25, 2008
"A pilot project to experiment with public financing of Big Island County Council campaigns is moving toward final approval after state House and Senate lawmakers agreed in principle yesterday on a draft. Lawmakers in conference committee chose to drop from the bill a controversial proposal to clarify a limit on corporate campaign contributions that activists feared would poison the proposal."
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Senate is playing cynical game with public election bill
David Shapiro, Honolulu Advertiser
April 16, 2008
"... Senators responded by cynically poisoning the House bill for publicly funded elections by amending it to include their increases in corporate contributions--creating a mocking piece of legislation that works at cross purposes with itself."
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Senate should enable voter-owned elections
Editorial, Honolulu Advertiser
March 11, 2008
"Participation in local politics has increased in states where public
campaign funding has been enacted: Maine, Arizona, North Carolina,
Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico and Vermont."
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Follow the money into pols' pockets
Dave Shapiro, Honolulu Advertiser
February 27, 2008
"A coalition of public-interest groups is working hard to stop the Legislature from revoking a $1,000 cap on corporate political donations per two-year election cycle that lawmakers say they passed by mistake."
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 Clean Elections video with Bill Moyers
Campaign reformers rebuke bill to lift limits on corporate donations
Richard Borreca, Honolulu Star-Bulletin
February 27, 2008
"Barbara Wong, commission executive director, said the House bill would 'support the absurd results of the court's ruling that corporations can use unlimited funds from their treasury to make contributions ... overturning 27 years of legislative history that promotes transparency of corporate campaign contributions."
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Group asks lawmakers to consider full public funding of elections
Nancy Cook Lauer, West Hawaii Today
February 26, 2008
"A group advocating full public funding of elections has launched an e-mail and media campaign asking lawmakers to pass a bill allowing Hawaii County Council races to serve as a pilot project."
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Bill proposes public funding of elections
B. J. Reyes, Honolulu Star-Bulletin
February 26, 2008
"A coalition of Big Island lawmakers, public-interest groups, Democratic Party officials and citizens is urging the Legislature to back a proposal to test the viability of publicly financed elections."
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Nearly $5M Sitting in Hawaii Election Fund
KGMB9 News
February 25, 2008
"When you check the box on your taxes to donate to the campaign fund. That money goes into a collection. Now, millions of taxpayer dollars are sitting unused. Some groups want to make it easier for candidates to tap into what's in that fund."
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