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We are pleased to welcome the Buckeye Brook Coalition to the coalition!
RECENT NEWS
03/03/08 - "Viewpoints: Clean Elections"
03/02/08 - "NC Public Financing Option Popular" - The Charlotte Observer
02/28/08 - "New Bill Improves a Flawed System" - The Daily Cardinal
02/27/08 - "Money and Politics: Bills would create Public Financing of Campaigns" - The Daily Times
02/26/08 - "State Mulls Finance Reform" - The Baltimore Sun
02/15/08 - "Dirty Money Requires Clean Elections" - The Rice Thresher
02/11/08 - "Campaign Finance Law More Than Pizza Money" - The Hartford Business Journal
02/03/08 - "Expanding Clean Elections Can End Politics as Usual" - The Asbury Park Post
02/03/08 - "Fix Laws on Campaign Financing" - The Utica Observer-Dispatch
02/03/08 - "I Didn't Get Elected to be a Fundraiser" - The Hartford Courant
01/08/08 - Public Financing of Elections Would Lead Us out of the Partisan Swamp - The Oklahoman
01/07/08 - Clean Elections Merits Expansion - The Asbury Park Press
01/02/08 - "Money and the Morning After" - The Huffington Post
12/26/07 - "Let's Make Lawmakers Represent Voters, Not Companies" - The Anchorage Daily News
12/23/07 - "Make Legislators Earn Their Raises" - The New York Times
12/21/07 - "Like a Whorehouse" - The Huffington Post
12/20/07 - "Clean Elections Drive State Money out of State Politics" -  The Juneau Empire
12/19/07 - "Clean Elections Program Backed" - The Courier Post
12/18/07 - "How About Public Financing of Elections" - USA Today
12/15/07 - "Let's Remove Big Money from Campaigns" - The Des Moines Register
12/10/07 - "Our View on Elections: 5 Reasons for Public Financing" - USA Today
12/06/07 - "Bipartisan Group Introduces Presidential Public Financing Fix" - All American Patriots
12/06/07 - "Clean Elections a Winner" - The Home News Tribune
12/06/07 - "Record Campaign Shows Need For Reform" - The Courier Post
12/05/07 - "Returns on Investment" - The Huffington Post
12/01/07 - "A High Price to Pay" - The Financial Times
12/04/07 - "Doyle Can Back a Real Reform" - The Capital Times
12/02/07 - "Campaign for Sale" -  The New York Times
11/28/07 - "NJ Voters still fear pay-to-play politics" - The Record
11/26/07 - "Time to Kick the High Price of Running for Office" - The Star-Gazette
11/15/07 - "Fair Elections: The Cure to an Ailing Political System"- The Brown Daily Herald
11/13/07 - "Voter apathy costs"
11/08/07 - "Activists Rally Nationwide in Support of Fair Elections"
11/04/07 - "Public Campaign FInancing leads to Candidate Diversity" - San Jose Mercury News
10/29/07 - "For Fairer Campaigns: Full, Public Funding"
10/27/07 - "Public Funding Beats Dialing-for-Dollars Elections" - The Erie Times
10/24/07 - "Big Money Politics and Local Elections" - The Leland Tribune
10/18/07 - Cleaning up politicians' monetary connections
10/15/07 - "Edwards calls for Ban on Lobbyists' Donations" - The New York Times
10/14/07 - "Why Isn't Campaign Finance THE Major Issue In 2008 Election?"
10/12/07 - Fair Elections Action Week Coming Up: Nov 12-16 
10/8/07 - "Senators Push for Fund-Raising Amendment" - The New York Times
10/8/07 - "Candidates' stances on issues are lost in money chase" - The Tennessean
10/9/07 - My Turn: Clean elections will keep us on course
9/28/07 - John Edwards has agreed to accept public funds in his Presidential bid.
Welcome to Fair Elections RI!

The Full Public Financing of Campaigns (FPFC) Act implements an innovative solution to rising campaign costs and the influence of special interest money in Rhode Island state politics. Under FPFC, any candidate that demonstrates a broad base of grassroots support can qualify to receive a limited amount of public funding while campaigning. Evidence from Maine, Arizona, Vermont, and other states shows that Fair Elections is both affordable and effective in changing the way state politics is run.

Thanks to everyone who attended the William McNary event!

Keep your eyes open for other National Week of Action events on the Brown University campus this week.

Thank you to everyone who attended the State House Rally on February 6. It was a huge success!

Click here to see photos of the event.

Click here for links to the press coverage.

If you didn't know about it until now and would like to: here is a summary of the event.

We also encourage you to join our mailing list.

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