Liberty
An End to Candidate Welfare?
Senator Tom Apodaca has introduced a bill proposing to eliminate using tax dollars to fund elections. The practice, known as candidate welfare, has attempted to “protect the constitutional rights” of…
Publicly funded elections
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features Donna Martinez’s conversation with Daren Bakst about the impact of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Chapel Hill’s taxpayer-financed election campaign…
Liberty
Welfare for liberal candidates in Chapel Hill
The U.S. Supreme Court put a kink into Chapel Hill’s welfare-for-liberal-candidates plan, but, unfortunately, they didn’t kill it altogether. As Dan Way reported in Carolina Journal Online today, the “rescue…
Elections & Public Integrity
New at CJO: State Board of Elections blocks Chapel Hill’s ‘rescue funds’
Dan Way’s latest Carolina Journal Online report documents the State Board of Elections’ decision to block any “rescue funds” for candidates participating in Chapel Hill’s taxpayer-financed election campaign program.
Law & Public Safety
Lawsuit Challenging State Taxpayer Financing Systems
A new lawsuit has been filed challenging North Carolina’s taxpayer financing systems. The United States Supreme Court, in Arizona Free Enterprise Club v. Bennett, recently ruled that rescue funds (or…
Liberty
State Government Doesn’t Need to Follow Law; Eugenics Report Released
View in Your Browser Private Citizens Required to Follow Law, but the Government Isn’t Technically, it isn’t true that the government doesn’t have to follow the law, but don’t tell…
Liberty
More AZ-NC campaign finance law
JLF’s Mitch Kokai makes an appearance in this News 14 report on the implications of the recent Supreme Court ruling on North Carolina campaign finance law: “What happens is a…
Supreme Court ruling should kill N.C. taxpayer-financed campaigns
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s General Assembly should repeal its unconstitutional taxpayer-financed campaign system in the wake of a new ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. The John Locke Foundation’s top…
Elections & Public Integrity
Judicial Election Changes
The House elections committee took up a proposed committee substitute to House Bill 452, entitled Judicial Election Changes. This bill would repeal the instant run-off voting in judicial elections, repeal…
Liberty
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Taxpayer Campaign Financing Case
Today, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear the Arizona taxpayer campaign financing case. This development was expected, but until the Court actually decided to hear the case, you…
Liberty
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
North Carolina is making another plea for federal Race to the Top education grant money. Will state efforts to create new ?charter-like? schools improve the odds of securing more federal…
Liberty
Wanted: People to Help Fund Candidates They Oppose
If you’re concerned by the idea of your tax dollars helping to fund candidates you would never in a million years vote for, you’re right to feel that way. That’s…