{"id":13644,"date":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/the-campaign-finance-bucks-stop-with-you-mr-president\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","slug":"the-campaign-finance-bucks-stop-with-you-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/the-campaign-finance-bucks-stop-with-you-mr-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The Campaign Finance Bucks Stop With You, Mr. President"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13644","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8888}"],"related_issues":[137,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p>Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/04\/30\/wonkbook-the-hopey-changey-thing-isnt-working-out-so-well\/\">signal\u00e9<\/a> this morning about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/site\/apps\/nlnet\/content2.aspx\/?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&amp;b=686043&amp;ct=13106901\">lettre<\/a> to President Obama that we signed with six other watchdog organizations. Unfortunately, Mr. Klein dismisses campaign finance reform as a \"quixotic cause\" because the White House will \"never get the votes to truly change campaign finance laws,\" rendering the President's inaction, regrettably, as making \"perfect sense.\"<\/p><p>Except it doesn't make sense. Our letter specifies what the President can do <strong>without going to a hamstrung, gridlocked, filibuster-it-all, do-nothing Congress.<\/strong><\/p><p>To cut to the chase, the President pledged to make getting control of money in politics a priority in his Administration. But although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k92SerxLWtc\">he famously called out<\/a> the five conservative justices for their appalling decision in Citizens United and imposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/obama_expected_to_ease_lobby_posture-220890-1.html\">some restrictions<\/a> on executive branch hiring of corporate lobbyists, he has done very little to stem the tide of big money buying up public policy.<\/p><p>Here's what he alone can do, as we said in our letter to the White House:<a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/petition\/nominate-new-commissioners-federal-election-commission-fec\/shD2fsKP\"><\/a><\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/petition\/nominate-new-commissioners-federal-election-commission-fec\/shD2fsKP\">Submit Federal Election Commission nominees to the Senate to fill the existing vacancies; this confirmation process begins with the President, not the Senate;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/petition\/nominate-new-commissioners-federal-election-commission-fec\/shD2fsKP\">Sign this petition<\/a> here asking him to so;<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/220453-white-house-abandons-push-for-disclosure-of-political-giving-by-contractors\">Issue the Executive Order he initiated, but then dropped<\/a>, that would have required government contractors to disclose their contributions to groups engaged in electioneering activities;<\/li><li>Use the bully pulpit to speak out and educate the public on repairing the campaign finance laws, as he has on a number of other issues;<\/li><li>Publicly support the effort <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/24\/us\/politics\/sec-is-asked-to-make-companies-disclose-donations.html?pagewanted=all\">to have the Securities and Exchange Commission require public corporations to disclose their campaign activities<\/a> to their shareholders and the public;<\/li><li>Publicly support better <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/atf\/cf\/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D\/YOURRIGHTTOKNOW.pdf\">disclosure at the Federal Communications Commission<\/a> regarding campaign ads being run by broadcasters.<\/li><\/ul><p>At a time of unprecedented spending and rapid shifts in campaign finance law, we sorely need the leadership he pledged on these matters. The buck stops with you, Mr. President.<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Campaign Finance Bucks Stop With You, Mr. President - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/the-campaign-finance-bucks-stop-with-you-mr-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Campaign Finance Bucks Stop With You, Mr. President\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/the-campaign-finance-bucks-stop-with-you-mr-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/the-campaign-finance-bucks-stop-with-you-mr-president\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/the-campaign-finance-bucks-stop-with-you-mr-president\/\",\"name\":\"The Campaign Finance Bucks Stop With You, Mr. President - 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