It’s election season in North Carolina. Across our state some 500 cities and towns are holding local elections in the coming weeks with 1000 public offices up for grabs. Additionally, there are 20 school districts electing school boards, eight bond referenda, five county wide tax referenda and two municipal incorporation referenda all on [Continue Reading...]
The anti-democracy reform crowd is at it again – spreading misinformation about campaign finance reform. Their current target is House Bill 120, a fairly innocuous proposal in the state legislature to provide municipalities the legal authority to experiment with public financing of local elections. It’s something the town of Chapel Hill will be doing this fall. [Continue Reading...]
By Bob Phillips, Common Cause North Carolina Here we are in late December in the midst of the holiday season and the eve of a big election year – the time of the year in which the mad rush to the malls by shoppers is perhaps only rivaled by the mad rush for campaign cash [Continue Reading...]
By Bob Phillips, Executive Director of Common Cause North Carolina Earlier this month at a national conference, North Carolina was celebrated for its progress in lobbying and ethics reform – quite a contrast to just four years ago, when a national watchdog organization gave our state failing marks for its notoriously weak laws on lobbying [Continue Reading...]
