Fund the GPO to Create Jobs and Accountability
Five days ago, Senator Ron Wyden introduced a 50 billion dollar transportation funding bill, S. 238, the Build America Bonds Act. Four days ago, I forwarded Ron Wyden’s comments on the bill, but noted...
View ArticleOrganized Procrastination Resistance In Vermont
Truman just got done with a post-mortem on three alternative political parties in Vermont, so I thought I’d take a look at what other organizations in our Vermont Progressive Directory are up too. I...
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Obama Disavows MLK On Right Timing
“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “At the right time, I’m sure the president will take it on.” – Obama Administration statement on why President Barack Obama...
View ArticleAmericans Elect Misses its First Benchmark on November 6
Apart from the question of whether it’s a good idea for Americans Elect to run its own private, corporate-run presidential nomination in 2012, there’s the question of whether Americans Elect can...
View ArticleDelay in Rolling Out Americans Elect Campaign Capability Heavily Advantages...
In the campaign literature Americans Elect originally used to disseminate information about its first-ever privatized online presidential nominating election, a date of November 6 was set as the...
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With Zero Candidates on Target to Qualify for its Ballot, Americans Elect...
On January 31 2012, Americans Elect opened up the qualifying round of voting in the first-ever online, proprietary, corporate-run presidential nomination. Starting that morning, Americans Elect...
View ArticlePostponing Transparency, Americans Elect Delays the Posting of Form 990...
Finally, after two years of initiating contact with Americans Elect and asking for a response, the 501c4 corporation that wanted to elect its own President of the United States has written me a letter...
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Asking (Again) For Americans Elect Form 990, August 2012
As Americans, we have the right to examine the public records of the corporations that have been granted a public charter. The IRS requires that the Form 990 annual report of any Section 501(c)...
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As Staffers Jump Ship, Americans Elect Delays Financial Disclosure Again
According to the IRS, members of the American public have the right to ask for the Form 990 annual financial disclosure from any Section 501(c) corporation. Those disclosures matter because they...
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While U.S. Government Secretly Tapped Phones and Internet, Privacy and Civil...
This morning, you may feel like wearing a tin-foil hat to protect yourself, and such an act wouldn’t be entirely kooky. Yesterday, leaks to newspapers revealed that the United States government has not...
View ArticleWhy the overdue SEC rule will underestimate the gap between CEO and worker pay
In 2010 — five years ago — the U.S. Congress passed into law a requirement that publicly-traded corporations must publicly reveal the gap between the pay for their CEOs and the pay for the rest of...
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