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Five numbers that show how the FEC is MIA
Today marks the start of the fourth month since the Federal Election Commission (FEC) lost its ability to do its job due to the resignation of one commissioner. Three seats…
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While Florida’s well-financed sons Governor Jeb Bush and Senator Marco Rubio campaigned and lost this cycle’s presidential contest, advocates in Miami-Dade County are still striving for a money-in-politics victory.
And thanks to County Judge William Thomas, they just moved one step closer. On Friday, he ordered a citizen-backed referendum that proposes a number of campaign finance-related changes be placed on the November ballot.
Miami-Dade County’s lawyers, who oppose the initiative, immediately appealed Thomas’s decision to the Third District Court of Appeal. A decision is expected this week because the county’s election administrators must send the November ballots to the printers by Saturday, September 17.
Here’s what the ballot initiative would do, per the Miami Herald:
Read the full initiative from Accountable Miami-Dade and stay-tuned to our blog for updates through November.
Issue: Money in Politics
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Today marks the start of the fourth month since the Federal Election Commission (FEC) lost its ability to do its job due to the resignation of one commissioner. Three seats…
Analysis
Today marks the start of the third month since the Federal Election Commission (FEC) lost its ability to do its job due to the resignation of one commissioner. Three seats…
Analysis
More than half of all freshman House members have formed leadership PACs — political committees that are frequently criticized as slush funds — according to an Issue One review of…