«В идеальном мире члены Конгресса, работающие в комитетах, которые контролируют или регулируют определённые отрасли, не смогли бы собирать средства или принимать пожертвования на избирательные кампании от этих отраслей», — сказал Аарон Щерб, директор по законодательным вопросам Common Cause. Щерб добавил, что участие в несовершенной системе не означает, что Надлера или других законодателей подкупают, но «создаётся воспринимаемый конфликт интересов». «Для многих американцев наша губительная система сбора средств ставит под сомнение...

“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.

Дэвид Вэнс, национальный медиастратег правительственной наблюдательной организации Common Cause, сообщил Newsweek, что решение по делу Хастеда позволило законодательным органам штатов прибегать к чисткам списков для подавления избирателей.

«Дав зеленый свет чисткам списков избирателей в Огайо, решение по делу Хастеда вдохновило на использование различных методов исключения избирателей из списков в интересах партий», — сказал он. «Законопроект Аризоны — лишь очередной пример тактики подавления избирателей, вытекающей из решения по делу Хастеда. Похоже, это не более чем очередная попытка...

Aaron Scherb, the legislative director of watchdog organization Common Cause, noted that conservative religious organizations have previously donated large amounts to groups that further their political interests.

"The Religious Right and certain conservative religious groups have significant resources at their disposable. As we detailed in a 2015 report, they often flex their political muscle to further enhance their ability to spend big money in politics to drown out the voices of dissenting views," he told Newsweek.

“Now I’m elected, now I’m in, I got the power to draft, lobby and shape the laws that govern the United States of America. Fabulous,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Now, is there any hard limit that I have in terms of what legislation I’m allowed to touch…based on the special interests funds that I accepted?”

“There’s no limit,” said Karen Hobert Flynn, president of the nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause.

Ocasio-Cortzed continued, “I can be totally funded by oil and gas, totally funded by big...

"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.