Tag: Common Cause

Just a reminder… This Monday night, we hope to further build the momentum in support of non-partisan redistricting reform — and other vital political reforms — by bringing together members of the Legislature, reform experts, and Wisconsin citizens at a free public forum in Madison at Edgewood College. The event will run…

From my email inbox comes news of a free public forum being held by Common Cause Wisconsin on February 17. Topics will include redistricting reform, voter photo ID and disclosure of campaign spending by outside special interest groups. For this one our panel will include: Republican State Senator Dale Schultz,…

This looks like a great event. Common Cause in Wisconsin will be holding a free public forum on campaign finance and election reforms at UW-Whitewater in the University Center Summers Auditorium on Monday, April 22nd from 6:30-8PM. Panelists will include: State Rep. Andy Jorgensen (D-Fort Atkinson) Republican strategist and CC/WI…

Exactly one month ago, I wrote about a lawsuit filed against five Republican lawmakers here in Wisconsinby the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and Common Cause (CC). In their lawsuit, the Center for Media and Democracy and Common Cause alleged the five Republican lawmakers in question failed to provide…

Earlier today the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and Common Cause (CC) filed suit against five Republican lawmakers, alleging those five Republicans failed to provide ALEC-related records sought under Wisconsin’s Open Records Law. Here’s the press release issued by CMD and CC. The Center for Media and Democracy and…

When it rains, it pours… All over ALEC! This submission is made pursuant to the whistleblower provisions of 26 U.S.C. 7623 et seq. (the “Tax Whistleblower Act”). This matter concerns the massive underreporting of lobbying by the American Legislative Exchange Council (“ALEC”). While ostensibly a nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3)…

Get the Supreme Court Justices to pay their taxes. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report his wife’s income from a conservative think tank on financial disclosure forms for at least five years, the watchdog group Common Cause said Friday. Between 2003 and 2007, Virginia Thomas, a longtime conservative…