{"id":11200,"date":"2015-05-28T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T00:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11200"},"modified":"2015-05-28T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T00:57:06","slug":"montana-fights-for-the-nation-against-lifting-campaign-donation-caps-bradcast-5282015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11200","title":{"rendered":"Montana Fights (for the Nation) Against Lifting Campaign Donation Caps: ‘BradCast’ 5\/28\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nebraska does it again! The majority-GOP state legislature overrides yet another veto by the state’s GOP governor to do the right thing yet again, this time to allow the children of immigrants to obtain drivers’ licenses<\/a>. The latest move by Conservative legislators in the state comes on the heels of overriding vetoes and\/or filibuster-proof majorities to protect voting rights<\/a>, raise tax revenue to repair roads and bridges and ban the death penalty<\/a>. (Today’s news, by the way, was available last week to regular BradCast<\/i> listeners, as it was hinted at quite directly on our show at the time<\/a> by my guest that day, Republican state Sen. Al Davis.)<\/p>\n

In the meantime, my guest on today’s The BradCast<\/i><\/a> is Montana’s Commissioner of Political Practices John Motl. He explains the state’s latest disturbing court battle to retain their long-standing caps on campaign donations. As noted during the show, this case could very well end up at the U.S. Supreme Court and serve to remove all<\/i> caps on donations to candidates across the country<\/i>. So it’s very important. This in a state which recently saw SCOTUS gut it’s 100-year old prohibition on corporate campaign spending<\/a> (the Corrupt Practices Act of 1912) in the wake of Citizens United<\/i>.<\/p>\n

“We fully understand we are standing in on behalf of the average person,” Motl tells me. “We’re not standing here on behalf of the large moneyed interests. And we’re willing to take that burden on.” He adds that he’s confident they will win this case. “If there’s justice, we will prevail.” I’m not quite as confident as he is, to be frank. Pay attention to this case.<\/p>\n

Plus: An amusing new RW conspiracy theory, of sorts; Saudi Arabia’s oil minister says we may be nearing the end of fossil fuels(!); and extreme weather ravishing the nation and the world on the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a> with Desi Doyen…<\/p>\n

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Nebraska does it again! The majority-GOP state legislature overrides yet another veto by the state’s GOP governor to do the right thing yet again, this time to allow the children of immigrants to obtain drivers’ licenses. The latest move by Conservative legislators in the state comes on the heels of overriding vetoes and\/or filibuster-proof majorities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,675,193,28,200,261,477,183,310,540,126,738,47,127],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-death-penalty","category-election-reform","category-environment","category-immigration","category-kpfk","category-montana","category-nebraska","category-oil","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-saudi-arabia","category-texas","category-the-constitution","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11200"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}