{"id":13979,"date":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/why-we-miss-the-peoples-pledge\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","slug":"why-we-miss-the-peoples-pledge","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/why-we-miss-the-peoples-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Pourquoi nous manquons le serment du peuple"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13979","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\":13646}"],"related_issues":false,"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":"

Massachusetts voters will cast their ballots in the U.S. Senate Special Election tomorrow. Before the results are in, let's focus on the process that has led up to the election. One thing is glaringly clear: it was less democratic than the Bay State's last U.S. Senate race.<\/p>

With a new Super PAC named \"Americans for Progressive Action\" dropping $700,000 on an ad-buy for Gabriel Gomez last week\" and then another one a few days later\" the absence of a \"People's Pledge\" for the special election has had clear consequences. In addition to pro-Gomez advertisements and a strong digital campaign, the new Super PAC, enti\u00e8rement financ\u00e9 par le PDG californien John Jordan,<\/a> Le Parti r\u00e9publicain a diffus\u00e9 un certain nombre de publicit\u00e9s n\u00e9gatives. Il s'agit l\u00e0 du dernier ajout \u00e0 une s\u00e9rie de messages n\u00e9gatifs des deux candidats qui ont entach\u00e9 cette campagne. Derri\u00e8re cette n\u00e9gativit\u00e9 improductive et souvent trompeuse se cachent des d\u00e9penses ext\u00e9rieures \u00e9normes et largement non r\u00e9glement\u00e9es.<\/p>

On the other side, a SuperPAC called \"Next Gen\" launched an ad campaign both supporting Markey and opposing Gomez, spending $1 million to help ensure Markey's election. Like Americans for Progressive Action, Next Gen is funded entirely by one man: California billionaire Thomas Steyer. After Citizens United, super spenders like Jordan and Steyer have undue electoral influence without a People's Pledge.<\/a><\/p>

The People's Pledge made headlines last year when Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown decided to minimize outside spending, agreeing to impose a fine on candidates for whom outside sources bought advertisements. The hotly contested and pivotal race, which ended up being the most expensive in the country, only accounted for 2% of outside spending nationwide. Strictly regulated individual contributions comprised the vast majority of campaign spending, obliger les candidats \u00e0 se d\u00e9fendre eux-m\u00eames<\/a> plut\u00f4t que de le laisser \u00e0 leurs substituts SuperPAC, moins responsables.<\/p>

Cette ann\u00e9e, le Pledge a cruellement manqu\u00e9. Les candidats n\u2019ont pas voulu parvenir \u00e0 un accord similaire, et ce sont les \u00e9lecteurs qui en paient le prix. Le total des d\u00e9penses pour la campagne Markey\/Gomez peut sembler relativement faible par rapport \u00e0 la campagne de 2012, ce qui est d\u00fb en grande partie au fait que Gomez et Markey ont annonc\u00e9 leur candidature bien plus tard que Warren et Brown. Mais les sources de financement sont inqui\u00e9tantes. Les groupes ext\u00e9rieurs ont d\u00e9pens\u00e9 plus de 147 millions de TP, ce qui repr\u00e9sente 391 millions de TP3T de toutes les d\u00e9penses de la campagne (bien que les derniers chiffres de d\u00e9penses de campagne publi\u00e9s datent du 5 juin). Il s\u2019agit d\u2019une augmentation inqui\u00e9tante par rapport aux 91 millions de TP3T seulement de la campagne Warren-Brown.<\/p>

PACs and Super PACs have dictated a large chunk of campaign spending, accounting for over 80% of outside money and a quarter of the total spending in the election so far (again, using campaign expenditure figures though June 5th). Negativity has dominated the race\" a stark contrast to last years Senate race in Massachusetts, in which only 34% of ads were negative and not a single television ad was run by an outside group. Small donor contributions, which comprised a third of campaign donations in the Brown-Warren race, have proven insignificant, stifled by the enormous outside support. And as a result, the special election for the Massachusetts seat has been dominated by big money.<\/p>

When we look at the results of the People's Pledge last year, it's hard to argue against its success. Small contributions from a wide variety of donors outmatched outside donations 3:1 (a refreshing fact, consider that in other pivotal 2012 elections, large donations to outside groups prevailed, accounting for more than 5 times the contributions of small donors). The benefits did not end there. The 2012 election also saw fantastic progress in disclosing donor information, with completely undisclosed, \"dark\" money comprising only 4% of overall election spending. The number is refreshingly low when compared to other tight races around the country, in which dark money made up an average of 20% of overall expenditures.<\/p>

Clearly, the People's Pledge was successful, and the past few months have served to put it in perspective. There is every reason for such a pledge to regulate Massachusetts elections from now on\" and if popular support is strong enough, it will.<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\nWhy We Miss the People’s Pledge - 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\/why-we-miss-the-peoples-pledge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why We Miss the People’s Pledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/why-we-miss-the-peoples-pledge\/\" \/>\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\/why-we-miss-the-peoples-pledge\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/why-we-miss-the-peoples-pledge\/\",\"name\":\"Why We Miss the People’s Pledge - 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