Click here http://townhall.fairelectionsnow.org TODAY, February 25 at 6:00 P.M. EST for a virtual town hall meeting with Fair Elections Now Act (H.R. 1826) lead House sponsor, Rep. John B. Larson (D-Conn.).

Angela Migally, an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice, makes the case for public financing of congressional elections in The Hill.

Speaking about the Fair Elections Now Act at a forum at the Center for American Progress, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) commented that President Lyndon Johnson wouldn't have been able to pass Medicare today with the influence of campaign cash.

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Common Cause President and former member of Congress Bob Edgar (D-Pa.) has a new op-ed in the Omaha World-Herald with fellow former member John J. Cavanaugh III (D-Neb.). Together they note that fund raising for congressional campaigns has spiraled out of control with the influx of big money.

The Minnesota Independent has a story today discussing the Fair Elections Now Act in Congress.

A recent editorial in the New Jersey Star-Ledger presents the Fair Elections Now Act as a needed reform and urges readers to call on their Congressperson to support the legislation.

In a recent post on The Hill Blog, an attorney for the Brennan Center for Justice posits that money in politics has everything to do with incumbency.

An Editorial today in the Daily Times of Delaware County, Pennsylvania endorsed the Fair Elections Now Act, urging lawmakers of both parties to support the measure in Congress.

Television star Sam Waterston, of Law and Order fame, penned an Op-ed that ran yesterday in the Boston Globe. The actor continues to be an outspoken advocate of the Fair Elections Now Act.

 

 

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, argues for the Fair Elections Now Act.