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Finding the Best Ideas to Counter Corporate Corruption
Finding the Best Ideas to Counter Corporate Corruption
David Donnelly is the national campaigns director for Public Campaign Action Fund and is serving as the campaign manager for the Campaign for Fair Elections, a multi-organizational effort to pass comprehensive Fair Elections Now Act in Congress.
He also directs the Action Fund's Campaign Money Watch project, which inserts the issue of money in politics into election contests. David has directed or consulted on campaign finance reform victories in several states, including managing the ballot campaign to pass Maine's landmark Clean Elections law. As the director of the only campaign finance-oriented electoral project, he has designed, raised funding for, and run strategic issue campaigns over the past four election cycles, including a multi-year, national campaign to drive Tom DeLay out of elective office and a national effort to educate voters about Presidential candidate John McCain's ties to lobbyists.
Prior to ColorOfChange, James served as Director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org, where he played a lead role in technology and organizing strategy. He is also co-founder of Secretary of State Project (www.secstateproject.org), an effort to elect progressive Secretaries of State at the state level, and Video the Vote (videothevote.org), a citizen-journalism project that enables everyday people to serve as the eyes and ears for the public on Election Day.
James grew up in Seaside, California and has a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. He lives with his family in San Francisco.
She is the editor of Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover," (Nation Books, 2009); and co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right.
She is also co-editor (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers; editor of The Nation: 1865-1990, and the collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001.
She is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on ABC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy magazine and The Boston Globe.
She writes a weekly web column for The Washington Post. Her blog "Editor's Cut" appears at thenation.com.
Robert Weissman is president of Public Citizen. He is an expert on economic, health care, trade and globalization, intellectual property and regulatory policy, and issues related to corporate responsibility and commercialism. He has written extensively on corporate accountability, access to medicines, corporate influence over the political process, and World Trade Organization and regulation of the financial markets.
Marge Baker has worked for nearly 35 years in various public service roles. She is currently Executive Vice President for Policy and Program at People For the American Way, a non-profit advocacy organization working to protect core constitutional values under attack from the far right. Prior to her current position she was the Staff Director for the late Senator Paul Wellstone on the Senate’s Employment, Safety and Training Subcommittee. Ms. Baker is a graduate of Yale Law School, has served as a law clerk in the federal judiciary, as a counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as head of consumer protection for a state regulatory agency. Ms. Baker is married, and has three children, ages 24, 26, and 29.
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