Read a brief history of political reform:
OpenSecrets.Org: A brief history of campaign finance reform. Also contains many interesting facts and insights into political corruption. It is worth it to take ten minutes and explore this site.
Groups Tracking Contributions, Reform Groups
Center for Governmental Studies: California. The home of Mr. Robert Stern, who was instrumental in passing the Political Reform Act which is the source of California Election Law.
California Clean: This group is sponsoring PROPOSITION 89 in California's upcoming November General election. The Committee heartily endorses this Proposition 89, but laments that it tolerates continuing corruption. After this passes, we will have two systems of financing our elections. One representing the voters, and the other representing the special interests.
OpenSecrets.org. National and State. Tracks contributions and influence of the contributions on politicians. This link brings you to the California page.
National Institute on Money in State Politics
Common Cause: Works for national and state reforms across a broad spectrum of issues.
Center for Responsive Politics: The organization behind the open secrets website. This is their homepage, which contains their mission statement and an index of their areas of research.
CREW: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Citizens Against Government Waste
groups fighting against other manifestations of political corruption
USGS Global Change Science page, usgs website
Plastic is everywhere article describing massive plastic island in pacific
Electronic Frontier Foundation internet rights, privacy
Toward Freedom, progressive view
Reprieve govt torture, misuse of law
Mindfully.Org excellent list of articles by topic
Berkeley Citizen: Works locally in Berkeley for environmental and civil rights.
California Agencies Regulating Elections and Contributions
California Fair Political Practices Commission: This site offers the rules and regulations covering California elections and contributions.The complete text of the laws governing campaign finance in California, the Political Reform Act, may be accessed at this site as a large PDF file at: CPRA
California Secretary of State: “Cal-Access” Tracks campaign finance and lobbyist activity. Find out who is giving what to who in California.
Federal Enforcement of election law
Federal Election Commission: Enforces Federal election laws. Disclosure and campaign contribution information.
Federal Government Searching
Official search site for the Feds
California legislative information
California Legislative Counsel. Information on legislative actions.
Official Site of California Assembly and Senate:
Official Site of the California Assembly: Find and contact your legislator.
Official Site of the California Senate: Find and contact your Senator.
California Secretary of State: Elections and Voter information
League of Women Voters: Voters Service for Californians
Congressional Voting
Congress.Org. Provides a wide variety of political information on Executive, Congressional, Federal Agency, Supreme Court, and State matters.
Public Citizen. Tracks Congressional voting.
Washington
Post. Tracks
Congressional voting.
Information
Demographics/Statistics:
National Center for Health Statistics
HHS: Poverty Level
John Williams Shadow Govt: Govt inflation statistics & CPI
Treasury: The National Debt
Other Agencies of Interest
California Department of Fair Employment and Housing housing and job discrimination
Consumer Product Safety Commission political bribery masking as "contributions" has made this worthless tool of manufacturers, incapable of defending our citizens
Israel
Mearsheimer and Walt, March 2006, THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Book Review by Stepen Lendman of, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappe.
Book Review by Kim Petersen: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappe.
The sites we link to all provide information that attests to the corrupting power of special interest contributions. These groups all contribute to the fight against political corruption. Yet none of them go for the jugular of corruption:
Ending all contributions that do not come from the voters in the election.
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