قال آرون شيرب، مدير الشؤون التشريعية في منظمة "كومن كوز": "في عالم مثالي، لن يتمكن أعضاء الكونجرس الذين يخدمون في اللجان التي تشرف على أو تنظم صناعات محددة من جمع الأموال أو قبول مساهمات للحملات الانتخابية من تلك الصناعات". وأضاف شيرب أن المشاركة في النظام غير الكامل لا تعني أن نادلر أو غيره من المشرعين يتم شراؤهم، ولكن هناك "تضارب مصالح متصور يتم إنشاؤه". "بالنسبة للعديد من الأمريكيين، فإن نظام جمع الأموال المتآكل لدينا يثير التساؤلات ...

“The Special Counsel concluded that the promised ‘documents and information that would incriminate Hillary’ constituted a ‘thing of value,’” the complaint supplement from Common Cause, Campaign Legal Center, and Democracy 21 states. “And that Trump Jr.—and potentially Manafort and Kushner—solicited such a contribution from a person known to be a foreign national.”The supplement concludes: “In other words, the Special Counsel concluded that, at a minimum, Trump Jr. violated the ban on soliciting contributions from foreign...

"The citizenship question is a bald-faced attempt to racially rig the census, undercount communities of color and undermine fair representation which our democracy relies upon," said Karen Hobert Flynn, president of Common Cause, a nonpartisan public interest group.

David Vance, the National Media Strategist at government watchdog organization Common Cause, told Newsweek that the Husted decision had enabled state legislatures to use purges of rolls to suppress voters.

"In greenlighting Ohio’s voter roll purges, the Husted ruling has inspired a variety of methods to remove voters from the polls for partisan gain," he said. "The Arizona bill is just the latest example of voter suppression tactics stemming from the Husted decision. It appears to be nothing more than another attempt by...

وأشار آرون شيرب، المدير التشريعي لمنظمة المراقبة Common Cause، إلى أن المنظمات الدينية المحافظة تبرعت في السابق بمبالغ كبيرة لمجموعات تعمل على تعزيز مصالحها السياسية.

«يتمتع اليمين الديني وبعض الجماعات الدينية المحافظة بموارد هائلة تحت تصرفهم. وكما أوضحنا في تقرير صدر عام ٢٠١٥، فإنهم غالبًا ما يستعرضون نفوذهم السياسي لتعزيز قدرتهم على إنفاق مبالغ طائلة في السياسة لإسكات الأصوات المعارضة»، هذا ما صرّح به لنيوزويك.

الآن، بعد أن انتُخبتُ، ودخلتُ إلى السلطة، أصبحتُ أملكُ سلطة صياغة القوانين التي تحكم الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، وممارسة الضغط عليها، وصياغة هذه القوانين. أمرٌ رائع، قالت أوكاسيو كورتيز. "الآن، هل هناك أيُّ حدٍّ صارمٍ لي فيما يتعلق بالتشريعات التي يُسمح لي بالتأثير عليها... بناءً على أموال المصالح الخاصة التي قبلتُها؟"

وقالت كارين هوبرت فلين، رئيسة منظمة المراقبة غير الحزبية "كومون كوز": "لا يوجد حد".

وتابعت ألكسندريا كورتزيد: "يمكنني أن أحصل على تمويل كامل من النفط والغاز، ويمكنني أن أحصل على تمويل كامل من الشركات الكبرى...

"Mr. Whitley has no business being involved with elections, much less serving as Texas' chief election officer," Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas, said in a written statement. Common Cause is among the groups that have asked Whitley to withdraw his office's Jan. 25 advisory. "This 'voter purge' was poorly thought out, incompetently implemented and definitely seems to have been more about politics than anything else," he said. "At this point, I think purging Mr. Whitley from the secretary of state's office would be...

"It gives an opportunity for folks who are not themselves independently wealthy," says Cheri Quickmire, executive director of Common Cause in Connecticut, which advocates for public financing. The funds also free up policymakers from some of the constant fundraising that often goes hand in hand with holding office, she adds. "They don't have to go around with their hands out saying, 'Please give me money.'"

Aaron Scherb, the legislative affairs director at the nonprofit government watchdog Common Cause, said a comprehensive review of the program is long overdue especially in light of the Trump administration's decision to pull American troops out of countries like Afghanistan and Syria. "I think a GAO audit on the effectiveness of the program as well as a potential Department of Defense inspector general report would go a long way to determine how necessary and useful this program is, as the U.S. military continues to draw down in certain...

However, building a case against Cohen for these potential campaign finance violations would have been much more difficult than the case made over hush payments Cohen facilitated to women who alleged affairs with Trump, Paul S. Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at the watchdog group Common Cause, tweeted.