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The Coronavirus Stimulus Package Will Be Toxic to Incumbents | Independent Voter Newspassed by Congress. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, addressing the 2008 Financial Crisis and the ensuing Great Recession, was "only" $787 billion at the time of passage. (That number later crept up-- as Washington outlays are wont to do…
Stanley Brand | Independent Voter NewsStanley Brand. Brand, director of Penn State Law School's Washington internship program, was general counsel of the U.S. House from 1976 to 1983 and a public corruption atty.…
INCREDIBLE: Third Party, Independent Representation Up 40% Since 2014 | Independent Voter Newselusive in Washington. All 435 members in the U.S. House of Representatives are Democrats or Republicans. Across the Capitol, there are two of 100 senators with “(I)” after their names -- Sen. Bernie Sanders. of Vermont and Sen. Angus King. of Maine. But wait…
Money and Politics: Why Small Businesses Should Fight to Unrig the System | Independent Voter Newsaccording to the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. Yet these companies are put on the sidelines in a system that caters to the very small percentage of wealthy businesses, individuals, unions, and special interests who participate in the Washington…
Beware The Harvest: What Tops the 6 Downsides of an All-Mail Election | Independent Voter Newsby mail: Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington. It took them many years to develop their systems, safeguards and capacity to make such all-mail-in elections possible. There are a few salient problems with this national push to move ballots to the…
The Independent State of the Union | Independent Voter Newsevolved into the modern event of partisan pageantry we for some reason watch every year. "President Franklin D. Roosevelt giving his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 7, 1943." | Source: Wikipedia. Same Song and Dance Every…
High Court Accepts Case Involving Independent Voters | Independent Voter Newsauthored several opinions curtailing their voting rights, Clingman v Beaver, and. Washington State Grange v Washington State Republican Party. Stay Informed. Get our exclusive. Nonpartisan Reform Report. delivered to your inbox twice a month. Comments. Auto Pager Link…
Ranked Choice Voting Is Under Attack | Independent Voter Newsopinion columnist at the Washington Times wrote a piece entitled, “. Ranked-choice voting should be slotted dead last as election reform. .” The piece starts off with some good old-fashioned partisan fear-mongering: “Progressives are floating yet another…
OPINION: Boycott Iowa and Its Fraudulent Caucus | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Opinion. OPINION: Boycott Iowa and Its Fraudulent Caucus. February 25, 2019. The lead story in Wednesday’s Washington Post, was written by two reporters telling us what might happen to Democratic candidates running for president, in a race that…
There's A Deeper Systemic Problem in the College Admissions Scandal No One Is Talking About | Independent Voter Newsinfrequent. Considering only the United States in the past decade, the public witnessed two high-profile cheating scandals in the public schools of Atlanta and Washington, DC, and a smattering of smaller scandals elsewhere (e.g. El Paso and Pennsylvania…