League Urges Presidential Veto on H.R. 2019 (Legal Document) 3/20/2014 The League joined a letter asking President Obama to veto H.R. 2019 which repeals public funding for party presidential nominating conventions.
League Submits Comments to IRS Regarding Proposed Guidance for Tax-Exempt Social Welfare Organizations on Candidate-Related Political Activities (Article) 2/19/2014 The League submitted comments to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding the proposed guidance for tax-exempt 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations on candidate-related political activities.
The Fight to Reform Campaign Finance Laws Continues (Blog) 5/9/2013 The summer and fall months of 2013 are shaping up to play an important role in the fight to reform our broken campaign finance system. Here’s a little more detail on what is going on around this…
Maine Voices: Maine Senators' Rejection of Disclose Act Helps Keep Voters in the Dark (News Clips) 7/25/2012 “Their rationale for their votes doesn't take into account the need to know who's influencing elections.”
SENATE REFUSES TO DEBATE DISCLOSE ACT (Press Release) 7/17/2012 Voters deserve to know origins of secret money in elections
League of Women Voters Supports Cloture on the DISCLOSE Act of 2012 (News Clips) 7/17/2012 “The League of Women Voters of Glenview [IL], along with other Leagues across the nation, believes we must preserve the integrity of our electoral process by increasing transparency and letting the…
Restoring Transparency to Elections (News Clips) 7/16/2012 “The League of Women Voters of Ohio urges Ohioans to contact Senators Brown and Portman and ask them to support sending the DISCLOSE Act of 2012 to the floor for a vote.”
Support for the DISCLOSE Act across the country (Blog) 7/13/2012 We recently aired radio ads on the importance of disclosure in Maine and Tennessee. Now, Leagues across the country are writing op-eds so Senators know we want them to stop secret spending.
SUPREME COURT DECIDES PIVOTAL CAMPAIGN FINANCE CASE (Press Release) 6/25/2012 Court Repeats Naïve, Uninformed Errors of Its Citizens United Decision
Supreme Court Repeats Naïve, Uninformed Errors of Citizens United (Blog) 6/25/2012 Today, the Supreme Court repeated its uninformed errors in the Citizens United decision in another campaign finance case. We look forward to the day when the Court majority deal with the facts.