Fair Elections in the News

March 2005:

• Clean Elections Gives Candidates the Opportunity to Conduct Credible Campaigns (Hawaii Reporter)
• Clean Elections group orders lawmaker to quit (Tucson Citizen, Arizona)
• Judge dismisses challenge to Clean Elections system (KOLD-TV, Arizona)
• Support rises for 'clean elections' (Philadelphia Enquirer, Pennsylvania)
• ‘Clean money’ plan revised to avoid abuses (Portland Tribune, Oregon)

Feb. 2005:

• Is clean elections law too expensive? (Portland Press Herald, Maine)
• Rep. Lashes out at CCEC: Commissioner says system improves elections (NewsZap.com, Arizona)

Dec. 2004:

• Clean Elections Can Produce Results (Yankton Press, South Dakota)
• Clean Elections is a work in progress (Arizona Republic)
• Democracy Now advocates for 'clean elections' (Massachusetts Daily Collegian)
• Campaign-finance reform bill aims to open up process (Plain-Dealer, Cleveland Ohio)

Nov. 2004:

• Campaign finance reform goes to ballot (Juneau Empire, Alaska)
• Green Party backs clean elections (Times-Argus, Vermont)

July 2004:

• Press Release: Mass Voters Changes Name, Expands Focus

June 2004:

• Reform Indeed, Boston Globe, Letters

December 2003:

• Story: Clean Elections Only Fair, Massachusetts Daily Collegian (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

November 2003:

• Mass Voters for Clean Elections to Hold Educational Forum at UMass Amherst - MVCE Press Release

• Local Campaign Finance Reform Proposal Debated at Brookline Town Meeting

• Big Money and Politics: A Century of Corporate Influence on Campaigns, National Public Radio

• Youth in Politics Club to host Clean Elections meeting - Berkshire School

October 2003:

• mention of Mass Voters for Clean Elections - Los Angeles Times

September 2003:

• Clean Elections Still Gets Support - The Daily Hampshire Gazette

• Court Faces Stark Choice on McCain-Feingold - The Brookings Institution

• Campaign Finance Reform Remains Issue - Berkshire Eagle, Letter to Editor

• IRV (Instant Runoff Voting) Can Reform Voting - Berkshire Eagle

August 2003:

• A Small Group of Dedicated People Might Actually Do Something - Doris 'Granny D' Haddock, AlterNet

June 2003:

• Clean Elections Advocates Denounce Romney's Decision to End Clean Elections in Massachusetts - MVCE Press Release

• Stealth Lawmaking - The Boston Globe Editorial

• MVCE Press Release

• Campaign Finance Reform Advocates Denounce Legislative Plan to Kill Clean Elections - MVCE Press Release

• MVCE Memo

• Carrying torch for election law reform - The Daily Hampshire Gazette

• Reformers to fight for election law - The Daily Hampshire Gazette

• Romney's Choice on Reform - The Boston Globe Editorial

• Clean Break from the Law - The Boston Globe

2002:

• Boston's 1 & 50 Club -The Boston Globe, November 13, 2002

• Clean Elections Idea Still Resonates -The Daily Hampshire Gazette, November 8, 2002

• Fixing Democracy: The Clean Election Movement - PBS NOW with Bill Moyers, November 2002

• "For 'Clean' candidates, mixed results" - The Boston Globe, September 19, 2002

• "Getting cleaner" -The Boston Globe, Editorial, September 19, 2002

• "King Tom rocked by lieutenant's upset" -The Boston Herald, September 19, 2002

• "Split decisions: Campaign contributors spread wealth" - The Boston Globe, July 24, 2002

• "Election trickery" - The Boston Globe, Editorial, July 22, 2002

• "What Clean Elections auction holds for hospital site unclear" - The Boston Globe, June 27, 2002

• "It's all about voter power" - The Boston Globe, June 17, 2002

• "Keep it clean" - The Boston Globe, Editorial, June 13, 2002

• "Finneran's power suffers shortage" - The Boston Herald, June 2, 2002

• "Clean Money Repo Men" - The Progressive, June 2002

• Cleaning Up Massachusetts Politics - New York Times, Editorial, January 31, 2002

2001:

• Senator John McCain: "Clean Elections could work here" - Boston Globe, June 24, 2001
  Hailing from a state further along in its experiment with publicly financed campaigns, US Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, says he thinks Clean Elections can work in Massachusetts. Arizona's version ''has worked pretty well,'' McCain said. ''We have some wrinkles, as with any new law of this nature, but we are pleased with it ... public financing has been preferable to the old system," McCain said. In an interview with the Globe, McCain also had this to say: ''It is an interesting thing to me how incumbents seem to dislike it more than anybody else, no matter where they fall on the political spectrum. That's clearly because they see it as a threat to incumbency.''