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Author Archives: s2snider
Letters to the Statesman Editor
Here are several letters we sent to the Statesman: #1) In his May 3 Austin American-Statesman article, Ken Herman writes about fears associated with a constitutional convention. There’s another angle to consider: such an action is about all that we … Continue reading
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Report from Americans Elect panel discussion
In late February, representatives from AMERICANS•ELECT 2012 held a presentation at the LBJ Auditorium. This organization is touting a new way to nominate the president, so we see it as a potentially important political development. In mid-February, we sent our … Continue reading
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Reform by the light of Sunset
Watchdogs or just pets? A couple of agencies that are supposed to protect average Texans may be more about protecting unaverage Texans… In this American-Statesman article, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct‘s, uh, conduct is called into question because of … Continue reading
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“We can only pray Simmons is exercising more caution in handling his nuclear waste than he is handling campaign contributions.”
When long-time governmental ethics advocate Craig McDonald (quoted above) is not presenting information to the Austin Coffee Party, he and his organization Texans for Public Justice are busy uncovering the relationship between money and political influence. This time, TPJ’s hard … Continue reading
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Texas Campaign Spending Habits Examined
On February 4, over 30 Coffee Party Austin folks heard from Craig McDonald of Texans for Public Justice. Craig has been studying money in politics for decades, and we asked him to provide some context to Brian Roberts’ presentation from … Continue reading
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Examining our assumptions about money in politics
On January 7th, we hosted Prof. Brian Roberts from the UT Dep’t of Government, who has a different take on money in politics than perhaps what most of us are used to hearing. He began by touching on the history … Continue reading
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Move to Amend
To most of us, the term “Corporate Personhood” is an awkward-sounding oxymoron. So is the language that uses this syntactical contrivance to advance the “rights” of entities that are nothing more than legal constructs. As a nation, we’ve put up … Continue reading
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Engagement across generations
I attended a day-long civic engagement conference on November 12th that was organized by UT’s Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation. Many of the presenters were younger and talked about the interests and priorities of the Millennial Generation. We heard … Continue reading
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Jennifer Granholm on jobs
On Monday, Sept 19th, former MI Governor Jennifer Granholm spoke on CNN’s Piers Morgan show about what worked and what didn’t work in Michigan. During her first term (2002-2006), she followed the conventional wisdom and shrank state government. More than … Continue reading
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Another Look at Why We Need the Coffee Party
Many Americans today are afraid to discuss politics unless they’re around people they know agree with them. It feels impolite to even bring up politics in mixed company because of the fear that any such words will result in shouting. … Continue reading
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