The League of Women Voters and other concerned organizations oppose H.R. 3463, legislation that would repeal the presidential public financing system AND terminate the Election Assistance Commission.
League President, Elisabeth MacNamara, sent a letter to Senators urging them to oppose S. 194 and any other moves to eliminate the public financing system for presidential elections.
The League and coalition partners sent a letter to Senators urging them to oppose legislation to repeal presidential public financing and support modernization legislation instead.
League President, Elisabeth MacNamara, sent a letter to the House of Representatives urging them to oppose repeal of the presidential public financing system.
The League and coalition groups sent a letter to the House of Representatives urging them to oppose repeal of presidential public financing. Repeal legislation would eliminate a system which has given average citizens and small donors a critically important role to play in funding our presidential campaigns.
Below is a list of letters to the editor published in newspapers across the country on the DISCLOSE Act, leading up to the election in November of 2010. The list is alphabetical by state and then League. For those newspapers that require a subscription a link was not included.
Arizona
Sun City West Independent - LWV Northwest Mircopa County
Delaware
Wilmington News Journal and Delware State News - LWV Delaware
League Lobbies for Vital Campaign Finance Legislation in Maine
"Activists Push Maine Senators to Support DISCLOSE Act" Maine Public Broadcasting Network, September 22, 2010.
"Collins, Snowe Face Pressure at Home on DISCLOSE Act" Washington Independent, September 22, 2010.
League Lobbies for Vital Campaign Finance Legislation in Maine
"Activists Push Maine Senators to Support DISCLOSE Act" Maine Public Broadcasting Network, September 22, 2010.
"Collins, Snowe Face Pressure at Home on DISCLOSE Act" Washington Independent, September 22, 2010.
The League of Women Voters of Arizona and the League of Women Voters of the U.S. joined this lawsuit challenging the recently-enacted SB 1070 in Arizona, purported to be an attempt to curb illegal immigration, that “will subject United States citizens and legal residents who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups, and particularly those who may be perceived to be somehow ‘foreign,’ to the disruption, stress, and humiliation of detention and interrogation.”
by Mary G. Wilson, President, League of Women Voters of the United States
(The League filed an amicus brief in the case Citizens United v. FEC in association with the Constitutional Accountability Center)