Tuesday is Clean Money Day

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Tuesday is Clean Money Day. In honor of that, people around the country are screening the Tom Delay movie “The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress” on Tuesday, but there are also screenings happening over the next few weeks. Check the movie Web site for details.

And speaking of clean money, John Bonifaz is leading the fight to reform the nation’s campaign finance system. He has defended mandatory campaign spending limits, public financing of elections and other important campaign reforms. John and the National Voting Rights Institute (NVRI) – which he founded in 1994 – have been pressing for a US Supreme Court review of a 1976 ruling which equated money with speech and sanctioned today's system of unlimited campaign spending, and John has led a challenge to today's exclusionary system on voting rights grounds, linking the movement for change in the way we finance our elections to earlier civil rights struggles.

Today, the Supreme Court issued its decision on the review of the 1976 case. Click here to read John's statement on the ruling.

In addition, John defended the Massachusetts Clean Elections Law, which was passed overwhelmingly by the voters of the Commonwealth in 1998. John led the effort to challenge the Massachusetts legislature's refusal to fund the law and NVRI won a landmark ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, forcing the state to provide the necessary funds to all qualified candidates running in the 2002 state elections.

Please help spread the word about John’s fight to reform our political system and the vision he’ll bring to the office of Secretary of the Commonwealth by attending a screening

of “The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress” in your area. If there isn’t a screening near you, please consider hosting one at any time this summer, not just this Tuesday.

If you would like to bring some of John's materials to a screening, click here here for his Voter's Bill of Rights and here for our new Bonifaz flyer.

Thank you for your support!