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Trumka: "Most Crucial Election in 75 Years"
Obama, in Campaign Mode, Defends Policies and Offers New Proposal for Transportation Spending
The Fix
Florida Primary Today: Make Calls for PDA-endorsed Candidates Bastien and Tudor
Blue Dogs vs Progressives--Tomorrow Is Primary Day In Florida's 12th Congressional District
Current Endorsed Candidate Campaigns
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Bastien, Marleine (Congress, FL-17)Other Races of Interest
Rick Waugh Receives Local PDA Endorsement-Vying for National Endorsement
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Doug Tudor on His Way to Second PDA Endorsement
Washington Chapter Endorses Larry Kalb for Congress
Heckenlively Ready to Go Head to Head Against Ryan's Strengths
RIPDA Endorses David Segal for Congress
PDA Illinois-CD 15 Votes to Endorse David Gill for Congress
A Constitutional Conventional Candidate
Single-Payer Candidate Wins NC Primary
Melanie Shouse Cared for Us All: The Melanie-Care For All Act
Why am I Progressive and Why Should You Support My Campaign for Congress?
Tasini Renews Call To Gillibrand to Give Back Wall Street Money
Marcy Winograd: Jane Harman Profits From Anti-Generics Amendment She Helped Eshoo Pass
PDA MA Endorses Mike Capuano for Senate
ANC-PAC Endorses Marcy Winograd in Race Against Jane Harman
Jane Harman Challenger, Marcy Winograd, Pledges Support For Armenian American Issues
Taking Back Our Constitutional Rights
PDA Chapter Endorses Tom Geoghegan to Replace Emanuel in IL CD5
Geoghegan: Rhymes with Reagan, Thinks Like Wellstone
PDA-Illinois Endorses Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Rep. Jackson Is Our Choice to Be Senator
Barack Obama for President
10/02/02--The Day Obama Took the Lead
The Wall St Crisis, the 2008 Campaign and What To Do About It
Obama Gaining Crucial Ground, Polling Shifts in Some Key States
Solving Our Financial Crisis
VEEPSTAKES: Obama-Biden
Thomas Looks Towards 2010, Returns to Georgia Senate
An Hour or Two of Your Time Could Change the Congress
The America We Love
Clinton Concedes, Endorses Obama
Sen. Kerry Addresses PDA Members' Concerns
Obama, Clinton and What Has Been Achieved
Advantage Obama
USW Endorses Obama
PDA CO Chapter Endorses Joan Fitz-Gerald for Congress
Party Like It's 1932: The Obama Option
Obama Is Right
Mary Pallant Receives Ventura County Chapter Endorsement
Barack the Vote In the Remaining States
Clinton Has What It Takes
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Clinton's Cringe-Worthy Moment
Give Dennis Kucinich His Due
A Personal Note from Dennis Kucinich
John Edwards Suspends Campaign
US Corporate Elite Fear Candidate Edwards
Kucinich: For the Record
Obama Thanks Kucinich for Encouraging His Backers to Make Obama Their Second Choice
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PDA Energy for Kucinich for New Hampshire!
PDA Members for Edwards take aim at Iowa
Ralph Nader supports Edwards' anti-corporate message
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Kucinich Hits Homerun in Jefferson's Hometown
PDA - The Freedom to Choose
PDA Rocks!
Bill Richardson
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Signs of Desperation?
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Kucinich's Challenge
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John Edwards: Sick of Bush's Rank Hypocrisy
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"To Build One America, End the Game"
Saving the Middle Class: A Real-Not Rhetorical-Plan
'Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win'
John Edwards and "You"
As if our lives depend on it…
Why Progressives Should Support John Edwards for President
Edwards is the only progressive candidate who can win the presidency
Introducing Dennis Kucinich
Edwards will give Kucinich a fight for the progressive vote
Dennis Kucinich represents the Heart & Soul of PDA
What Makes Laura Bonham Run: PDA Staff Member Runs for Utah State Legislature
Clint Curtis is changing the tide in Florida
PDA Welcomes Sen. Feingold to Maryland
Rep. Conyers Endorses PDA National Board Member John Bonifaz for Massachusetts Secretary of State
John Bonifaz for Secretary of State (MA)
Published by The Washington Post.
Wall Street donations to the two Democratic congressional campaign committees are down 65 percent from two years ago, The Post reports. Party insiders say “the overwhelming factor is the rising anger among financial executives who think they have not been treated well based on their support of Democrats over the past four years.”
The National Journal writes that Wall Streeters are “sick of being used as political punching bags.”
And Post columnist Steven Pearlstein suggests that “bad blood” between big business and the Obama administration is “not a good thing.”
Given the reckless corporate behavior that led to the collapse of the economy and the consequent need for a new financial regulatory regime, I hardly think soothing the hurt feelings of bankers, hedge funders and corporate CEOs should be a priority.
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon doled out $65,000 in contributions to the Dems in 2006 and 2008 and nothing this cycle. Good riddance. The same goes for Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who’s given zilch to Dems after showering candidates with $50,000 in the previous two election cycles.
Rather than greasing the skids so Blankfein et al. resume their big-buck donations, isn’t it time legislators focus on diminishing the strings-attached purchasing power of corporate campaign contributions?
That’s exactly what the Fair Elections Now Act would do by severing the ties between big-money contributors and members of Congress. The bill has 22 cosponsors in the Senate (not a single Republican), and 157 bipartisan cosponsors in the House. It would bar participating congressional candidates from accepting contributions larger than $100 and allow them to run honest campaigns with a blend of small donations and public matching funds. Only candidates demonstrating their viability through meeting a minimum threshold of signatures and small donations would be eligible.
A coalition is now pressing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to keep her pledge to vote on Fair Elections this year. She should.
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