Video excerpt of Commonweal Institute Fellow Dave Johnson's presentation about building progressive infrastructure at the 2006 Yearly Kos Convention.
This post was written for the Commonweal Institute Progressive Op-Ed Program. I am a Fellow with the Commonweal Institute.
Tags: Politics, Huffington Post, Government, Dave Johnson
Why are recipients of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) – better known as the Banking Bailout – allowed to continue to lobby? Taxpayer dollars should not be used to influence our government. We, the People should be telling them what to do, not the other way around.
TARP recipients spent $114 million on lobbying last year as the financial crisis emerged. In just the last quarter of the year eighteen bailout recipients spent $14.8 million to influence the government, as the TARP funds were distributed.
The lobbying has paid off. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, “The companies' political activities have, in part, yielded them $295.2 billion from TARP, an extraordinary return of 258,449 percent.”
Commonweal Institute Fellow Dave Johnson interviewed on the BBC World Service Program "World Have Your Say" about protectionism and the global economy.
Press play to listen, or click here to download. Interview begins at 04:05.
Tags: trade, protectionism
"We're All In This Together"
A talk by Commonweal Institute Fellow David C. Johnson to supporters of public education, presented March 7, 2007.
A couple of weeks ago I was thinking about how to start this talk, when I came across this video clip from the Sean Hannity show on Fox News:
Tags: media, Education, Dave Johnson, conservative strategy
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This ground-breaking Commonweal Institute report by David C. Johnson and Leonard M. Salle analyzes in depth the conservative movement’s multi-pronged attack as a long-term, strategic process aimed at privatizing education. The report provides a detailed plan for how public education advocates can work with their allies to form a network of organizations and individuals - an infrastructure - that will be able get their messages to the broad public and increase political support for public education.
Remarks by David C. Johnson, Luncheon speaker at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) Annual Convention educational session titled, "Tort Reform: An International Problem With International Solutions" Boston, July 7, 2004
Here's a bad day for a trial lawyer:
You turn on the Morning Show and they're talking about how the high cost of lawsuits is raising the price of medical care.
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