Tag: citizens united

It was an easy hook but it garbled Jessica Fender's Denver Post story. Fender was reporting the fact that the Colorado Supreme Court found...

The Fair Elections Now Act aims to limit the influence of the big money special interests who now mostly fund the nation's electoral campaigns....

Yesterday's Supreme Court decision freeing up corporate and union spending on elections portends sweeping changes to our already circus-like political campaigns. Is it a...

DENVER-- Speaking on the steps of the U.S. Federal Appeals Court building here Thursday, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff blasted the Supreme Court's ruling earlier in the day that set aside campaign finance laws limiting corporate spending in the elections process. The controversial ruling played well into Romanoff's recent campaign theme, that of the outsider-reformer ready to stand against the encroaching power of special interests. Romanoff said the court's decision would only further erode the American people's faith in the political system. "If you like the way Washington works, you're going to love this decision," Romanoff said. "It’s as if the justices took a look at America’s political system and concluded that special interests don’t have enough power."

Amid the torrent of words written and yet to be written (or spoken or texted) on the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling today, Colorado...