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Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) The Supreme Court wrapped up the current term this morning by issuing its two final rulings. They saved the biggest and most damaging for last. Lisa Graves of True North Research, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General under Clinton, joins in at the top of the show to explain the ramifications of the court's decisions on our voting rights and the continuation of dark money in politics. By the way, Lisa and the True North gang just launched a news Substack [...]

By Nicole Sandler|July 1st, 2021|Tags: dark money, Howie Klein, insurrection, Jan 6, Lisa Graves, SCOTUS, senate, voting rights|Comments Off

9-2-15 Nicole Sandler Show – Kochs, FloriDUH & a Bit of Hope

It's Wednesday, so Nicole Sandler's fellow Floridian joins in to call out their state's DUH-ness. Plus Lisa Graves from the Center for Media & Democracy with the soap opera that is Josh Duggar and his Koch problems

By nicolesandler|September 2nd, 2015|Tags: Bernie Sanders, Center for Media & Democracy, dark money, Deborah Newell Tornello, Duggar, education, FloriDUH, Jeb Bush, Koch, Lisa Graves|Comments Off

“Every time you vote Republican, you probably are voting against your self-interest.” #CitizensUnited

Michael Hiltzik is a top notch columnist, and some of his readers who commented on a recent Los Angeles Times post of his apparently agree. He wrote about something that is destroying what's left of our democracy: Campaign finance, specifically the Supreme Court Citizens United decision that legally transformed corporations into people: In the wake of Citizens United, the voice of the ordinary citizen has all but disappeared from Capitol Hill. It doesn't matter whether the donors are Democrats or Republicans; money becomes a political interest on its own. Nor is it a virtue of Citizens United that it took contribution limits [...]

By nicolesandler|January 27th, 2015|Tags: campaign finance, Citizens United, corporate interests, corporate personhood, corporations are people, dark money, influence, Koch brothers, L.A. Times letters to the editor, political donations, special interests, Supreme Court|Comments Off

Pachyderms Lumber Into Line For the ‘Free’ GOP Gold

Cartoon via TruthDig.com Quantity versus quality? What a waste of ill-gotten USD. For a 'political party' that publicly disdains Free Stuff (like basic nutrition and shelter for the folk they happily let languish in poverty and Social Security earned by those who worked two or three jobs to get their families by), Republican presidential candidates are lining up for campaign lucre with vulgar dispatch. And in vomitus variety and number. It appears that the loudest dog whistle of all for the Right Wing, is the one that alerts them to bags and bags of available campaign cash [...]

By nicolesandler|January 15th, 2015|Tags: 2016, campaign finance reform, Citizens United, Conservative Donor Gold, dark money, Free Stuff for Repubs, GOP Primary Hijinks, GottaLaff, Laffy's Place, politics, Republican Hypocrisy, Right Wing Asshattery, SCROTUS|2 Comments

Dark money is “bribery that happens to be legal.” #ThankYouSCOTUS

In today's Los Angeles Times is an interview by Patt Morrison with Daniel G. Newman. Newman is co-founder and president of a Bay Area-based organization called MapLight. This is an article that is well worth a read and a share or twelve: MapLight's database looks at big industries and big interests, their elected beneficiaries and their votes. "There's a river of money that affects everything in politics, and candidates and donors don't talk about it, so it's left to MapLight and other groups to expose it," Newman says. Nice to know there are groups like Newman's around to try to deal [...]

By nicolesandler|October 29th, 2014|Tags: Citizens United, corporate interests, Daniel G. Newman, dark money, influence, it's all about money, Patt Morrison, political donations|1 Comment

7-1-21 Nicole Sandler Show

7-1-21 Nicole Sandler Show

9-2-15 Nicole Sandler Show – Kochs, FloriDUH & a Bit of Hope

“Every time you vote Republican, you probably are voting against your self-interest.” #CitizensUnited

Pachyderms Lumber Into Line For the ‘Free’ GOP Gold

Dark money is “bribery that happens to be legal.” #ThankYouSCOTUS

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