Washblog

Panel presentations and commentary from Clean Elections advocates, featuring:

     Nick Licata - President, Seattle City Council

     Paul Loeb - author, researcher, social and political activist

     Marcee Stone - Board President, Washington Public Campaigns

     Jim Street - former member, Seattle City Council

     Janice Thompson - Executive Director, Democracy Reform Oregon

     Representative Mark Miloscia - Washington State legislature

If you want to rub shoulders with the VIPs, here's your chance:

By the way, the nomenclature goes like this:
Public Campaigns = Clean Campaigns = Clean Elections = "Fair Elections Now Act" in U.S. Congress.

It's confusing I know, but the congressmembers hate the term "clean" to describe public campaigns, implying as it does that they're dirty, so they called it "Fair Elections". That's not to be confused with the group Zappini writes about, "Citizens for Fair Elections," or FairVote.org. Those have nothing to do with public campaign funding, but rather election integrity issues. It's a continual debate among our members, what phrase to use that won't confuse the public.