• Título: BUYING ELECTIONS?
• Invitado: Rey López-Calderón.
• Invitados Adicionales: Victoria DeFrancesco Soto.
• Conductor: Samuel Orozco
• Fecha: MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012
• Descripción: BUYING ELECTIONS? First Hawaii, then New Mexico and now Vermont are calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn a Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts to support or atack political candidates.
• Género: News
• Ubicación: Oakland, CA.
• Program Number: 6666
• Productor: Samuel Orozco
• Número del Programa: 6666
• Editor: Radio Bilingüe
• Derechos: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Asunto: Politics
• Año: 2012
• Nombre del Programa: la_120423.mp3
• Duración: 59:06 minutes (54.12 MB)
• Formato: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

BUYING ELECTIONS? First Hawaii, then New Mexico and now Vermont are calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn a Supreme Court decision allowing corporations, and other powerful special interests to spend unlimited amounts of money to support or attack political candidates and influence elections. Spearheaded by citizen rights’ groups, similar resolutions are being introduced in many states and cities.

Guests: Rey López-Calderón, Executive Director, Common Cause Illinois, Chicago, IL, www.commoncause.org; Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, Professor of Political Science, University of Texas, Austin, TX.