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'Regnat Populus'

Proposal drafted to end corporate spending in Arkansas elections

Little Rock lawyer David Couch, who's done work in a variety of public interest causes, and Paul Spencer, who organized the Regnat Populus grassroots drive for better ethics laws, have a new idea cooking.
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Regnat Populus plans lawsuit over petition restrictions

Regnat Populus, the grassroots group that succeeded in putting its ethics initiative in a legislatively proposed constitutional amendment heading to the ballot in 2014, has circulated a statement touting its achievement and defending some of the items grafted onto that amendment to achieve legislative approval, particularly an extension of term limits and a mechanism to raise legislative pay.
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Greed rules

The Arkansas legislature earns its low regard daily, last Friday with committee approval of a constitutional amendment labeled "ethics reform."

Ethics group fights measure to limit referendum process

I wrote yesterday about the effort backed by Arkansas's duopoly casinos at Southland and Oaklawn, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and others to cripple the referendum process by, among others, severely limiting signature gathering by paid canvassers.
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A call to arms on initiative legislation

Regnat Populus has issued a rallying cry for good government advocates to fight Sen. Keith Ingram's bill to make it far more difficult to qualify popular initiatives for the ballot.

The people rule: looking ahead to 2014 initiated acts

Last week, a proposal by state Rep. Butch Wilkins (D-Bono) to raise the state's minimum wage was easily, and unsurprisingly, defeated in a House committee. However, thanks to Arkansas's initiative process, Arkansas voters may yet see the proposal again in the fall of 2014.
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UPDATE: Ethics bill will combine with legislative pay, term limits expansion

Regnat Populus, the organization pushing a ballot initiative for stronger ethics laws in Arkansas, says a "comprehensive" ethics reform bill is expected to be filed today.

Legislative ethics: If lawmakers won't, the people must

Between abortion and guns and defeating health care for working poor, the legislature hasn't had much time to devote to government ethics.
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Citizen legislating continues

All politics don't happen under the Capitol dome, though outside events sometimes affect matters within.

The Tom Cotton WLFITU Edition

Dustin McDaniel's big apology, ethics reform, the coming legislative session, Tom Cotton WLFITU and the latest on the tech park—all covered on this week's edition of the podcast.
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Attorney general certifies ethics petition

How's that for service? (I'm sure the office would say it is only coincidental.)

Well, the attorney general HAS had diversions

A communication this morning from Paul Spencer, the teacher volunteering as leader of the Regnat Populus movement to improve the state ethics law by curbing corporate contributions and ending freebies for pblic officials from lobbyists.
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