Below
is a link to an AP story which ran in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier,
the Newton Daily News and elsewhere. It highlights the amount of
money being spent by gambling interests to lobby our state legislators
– over $900,000. Whether or not you support expanded gambling,
big money should not play a part in our political process.
Combine this with the $100,000 in campaign contributions and the big
money involved with gambling has injected over $1,000,000 into Iowa's
political system. That much big money is devastating to
democracy. It also serves to drown out the voices of Iowans who
attempt to get the attention of our elected officials. This is
just another example of why Iowa needs to have Voter-Owned Elections
and why we will continue to work until Iowans have the democracy we
deserve.
Click here to read the story.
And
there is big news out of Arizona, too. Big money special interests have
failed to take democracy away from the citizens of Arizona.
Arizona's popular and groundbreaking Clean Elections system has been
under attack by big money interests who wanted it struck down.
The Arizona Supreme Court recently affirmed that an initiative to
dismantle Clean Elections is unconstitutional. This is a huge
victory for Iowa CCI and other groups across the country who are
fighting for Voter-Owned (Clean) Elections in our own states.
Click here to read more about the victory in Arizona.
Voter-Owned Elections:
Restoring Government for the People!
www.voterownediowa.org
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