Welcome to Voter-Owned
Elections Lobby Day!
This June 22th
NC Voters for Clean Elections and its 30 coalition partners will bring people from every
part of
Register here.
We support an alternative, public way of financing elections that values
voters over dollars and community support over PAC endorsements.
Voter-Owned Elections is a proven way to reduce candidate’s reliance on
special interest fundraising, open up the political process to
more candidates and voters, and facilitate more accountability between elected officials and the public.
Register to attend Voter-Owned
Elections Lobby Day.
Change Congress Founder and renowned Harvard Law professor Larry Lessig will be joining us at the General Assembly. Professor Lessig has been a frequent national commentator on the growing power of special interests and the recent Citizens United v. FEC U.S. Supreme Court decision which will allow corporate-funded political expenditures. He will give a keynote address in the Legislative Auditorium at 11am.
Our Legislative Agenda
Specifically, we will be advocating for Voter-Owned Elections expansion in two areas. The first, SB-966
Expanded Voter-Owned Elections would expand our state’s successful Council
of State program to additional offices.
The second, HB-120
Public Municipal Campaigns, would allow cities with more than 50,000
residents to create local public financing programs.
View Our 2010 Legislative Agenda.
Both of
these bills were approved by one chamber of the General Assembly in 2009 and are up for consideration again during the short session. With the public's outrage over the Citizens United decision and recent political scandals growing, these two bills have a serious chance of passing this year.
But without your help, these bills could also
languish.
That’s why we need you to attend Lobby Day.
We need you to spend a
few hours with us on June 22th and help us push these bills over
the edge.
Details: Coffee and optional orientations will take place from 9-10am in the Legislative Auditorium (third floor of the Legislative Building). Professor Lessig will speak in the Auditorium at 11am, with lunch following from 12-1pm. Click here for
more logistical information.
The event is being sponsored by all of our coalition partners, including the League of Women Voters, Democracy North Carolina, the NC Center for Voter Education, Common Cause NC, AARP-NC, the NC Council of Churches, the NAACP of NC, the NC Association of Educators, and the NC Justice Center. For a full list of partners click here.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Register here.
Click here to learn more about the bills being considered this year
Click here for answers to logistical questions.
Click here to learn more about Voter-Owned Elections.
See you on June 22!
