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Electoral College v. The People - Infoplease.com - 0 views

www.infoplease.com/...campaign2000race.html election electoral college vote
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  • Stephen Boyle on 15 Mar 12
     
    Four times in election history a candidate has won the popular vote and lost the election.
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PIPA January 24th vote | Public Knowledge - 0 views

www.publicknowledge.org/...24th-vote-and-how-filibuster-w censorship PIPA SOPA
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  • I will summarize how the process will work and why citizen involvement over the next few weeks is critical.
  • On January 23rd, the United States Senate will reconvene to begin legislative business for 2012.  After the first order of business is taken care of, Majority Leader Harry Reid w
  • It is also possible that PIPA never makes it to the January 24th vote, but that depends on the public weighing in with their U.S. Senators before they come back to Washington D.C.  To begin countering the $94 million spent in lobbying in support of PIPA and SOPA, more than a million Americans have contacted Congress in opposition and citizen boycotts have forced corporations to withdraw their support of passage.  Now Senators are home and away from the D.C. lobby, which is the perfect time for citizens to ask their Senators to voice their opposition to PIPA before they return to Washington D.C.  If enough Senators publicly object to PIPA, then it is likely that consideration would be delayed in order to begin negotiating a compromise.  So it is important that the public try to meet with their two Senators and their home state staff and inform them on where they stand and ask their Senators to represent the public interest by standing with them.
  • Stephen Boyle on 08 Jan 12
     
    Contact your Senators during holiday recess - STOP AMERICAN CENSORSHIP http://americancensorship.org 
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Backers of emergency manager law repeal vote win a round in Michigan Appeals Court | De... - 0 views

www.freep.com/...nager-petition-drive-type-size noconsent Financial Stability Agreement Emergency Manager ballot vote appeals
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  • Bob LaBrant of Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility, the group opposing the ballot initiative, said an appeal will be filed with the Michigan Supreme Court in the next one to two weeks. LaBrant said today’s ruling was not unexpected.If the repeal question is certified for the ballot, the emergency manager law will be suspended until the Nov. 6 election. But for that to happen, the State Board of Canvassers would have to meet and act as the appeals court has ordered. LaBrant said an appeal will be filed and the order will be stayed before the question is certified.
  • it believed that earlier case was wrongly decided.
  • Last week, a three-judge panel of the appeals court reluctantly ruled the question should go on the ballot, saying it was compelled to reach such a decision by a precedent set in an earlier case. But the panel unanimously said it believed that earlier case was wrongly decided.
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  • Today, the full panel rejected that step without stating its reasons.“The court orders that a special panel shall not be convened,” it said in a terse order.
  • Pugh noted that the consent agreement wasn't solely based on that law, and large portions of the city's deal with the state may stay in place no matter the impact of the court's ruling. Gov. Rick Snyder's administration has said much the same.
  • Stephen Boyle on 14 Jun 12
     
    A panel of seven judges from the State Board of Appeals will NOT be formed. This places the repeal of PA4 on the ballot for Nov 6. However Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility vows to have the order stayed and take the case to Michigan Supreme Court.
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Daily Operations of the Legislative Branch (Checks and Balances: Three Branches of Amer... - 0 views

www.enotes.com/...-operations-legislative-branch checks and balances Legislative branch congress government
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      Stephen Boyle on 12 Jan 12
       
      Citizens United vs FEC changed this by allowing corporations to contribute money into campaign funding and not placing any limit on such funding.
  • Because it is illegal for corporations to donate money directly to a congressional campaign,
  • businesses create political action committees, called PACs
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  • Lobbyists help members of Congress analyze how their votes on particular bills will affect their chances to be reelected. They also analyze the chances that different bills, or proposed laws, have of passing Congress. Lobbyists supply members of Congress with information concerning the subject matter of congressional bills. When congressional committees hold hearings, lobbyists testify, or speak, before the committees in an effort to influence the passing of a law their clients want.
  • According to Parenti, "Lobbyists make themselves so helpful that members of Congress sometimes rely on them to perform tasks normally done by congressional staffs. Lobbyists will draft legislation, write speeches, and plant stories in the press on behalf of cooperative lawmakers."
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PA 4 not dead yet; Bing ready to impose union contracts … it's a race to July... - 0 views

www.crainsdetroit.com/...ontracts-it-s-a-race-to-july-1 noconsent bing union contracts detroit
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  • The consent agreement between the state and the city of Detroit grants Bing some powers that are normally granted only to an emergency manager. Specifically, a month after the agreement was signed, Bing gained the power to impose union contracts, but only on unions whose current contracts have expired. This is why July 1 is important: About 80 percent of the city’s union contracts expire that day.
  • State law says that if the petition is certified, PA 4 is suspended until the vote.
  • The full court declined to do that, and the appeals court told the board of canvassers to go back and certify the Stand Up For Democracy petition, with the effect of placing the question on the ballot.
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  • Citizens For Fiscal Responsibility plans to appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court. Now, the high court’s rules say that if there’s an appeal, the appellate court’s decision is stayed for 42 days, which carries us well past July 1.
  • Stephen Boyle on 19 Jun 12
     
    Union contracts are at stake if the order to place the Repeal of PA4 on the ballot is not moved forward immediately.
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