Skip to content

News

News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 19, 2015

Rep. Greg Snowden: #Initiative42 “an assault upon representative democracy”

Initiative 42: Partisan assault or grassroots effort? Depending on whom you talk to, it’s either a grassroots effort to better fund our schools or a partisan and special-interest power struggle. “We have always recognized it as being not any sort of grassroots education effort but politically as a partisan assault on the legislative leadership and…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 19, 2015

PENDER takes on campaign donations

GEOFF PENDER: Campaign finance laws don’t give taxpayers fair shot Campaign donations from someone profiting from government are shielded from bribery — and even tax — provisions based on two basic assumptions: One, they are for running a campaign, not a politician’s personal use. Two, records of them are (ostensibly) open to public scrutiny. But…