Lawyers' Committee Legal Director Addresses Electoral and Campaign Finance Reform During Recent Panel Discussion, "How Broken is Our Democracy? And How Should We Fix It?"
June 04, 2010
Lawyers' Committee Legal Director Jon Greenbaum joined other leading experts and advocates during a June 1st conference co-sponsored by Demos, AmericaSpeaks, Everyday Democracy, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School and the Brookings Institution to discuss electoral and campaign finance reform.
Mr. Greenbaum and fellow panelists discussed ways in which our electoral and campaign finance systems must be reformed in order to have a truly representative democracy that reflects the will of the whole populace, and how the movements for electoral and campaign reform can work with other parts of the democracy movement and with government to achieve these goals.
Other Panelists:
Nick Nyhart, Public Campaign
Eddie Hailes, Advancement Project
Clarissa Martinez De Castro, National Council of La Raza
(Moderator: Karen Hobert Flynn, Common Cause)
Please click here for a summary of the event and to hear audio of this panel and other portions of the half-day conference.
