There is a conversation going among many of the same diverse organizations and individuals that worked hard on lobbying reform about improving the legislative process and opening up government more.
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These elected officials stood up for the public's right to know what money is being spent on their state legislators. Their votes helped transform North Carolina from a state with unfettered spending by wealthy special interest groups to one that enforces accountability and transparency.Bob Phillips
All they seem to need is safe, hard training and to eat right. And they're going to grow ... like weeds.
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We feel that citizens have a right to know how much money is being spent to influence their legislators.
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We got in lots of racing in three days. The winds looked a bit shady and light at times, but it would fill back in. The sailors had a fabulous time. We had very close competition. We're talking just one or two points between first, second and third in almost every one of the classes.
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Henry James
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
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