Mark Maynard | get the money out of Washington

I’m endorsing Elizabeth Warren for President of the United States

By Mark | May 14, 2019

My intention was to wait another year or so before calling a press conference and formally endorsing a candidate for president, but, when I saw this thread of comments today from Senator Elizabeth Warren about why she wouldn’t be following the lead of other Democratic candidates and appearing on FOX News, I decided that I’ve […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged corporate fascism, corporate money, corporatocracy, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, FOX News, grab them by the pussy, Kamala Harris, native american, nicknames, Oklahoma, political endorsements | 179 Comments

Unbreaking America: focusing on popular nonpartisan state ballot initiatives to build momentum for national anti-corruption legislation

By Mark | March 19, 2019

I have issues with the nonpartisan political action group RepresentUs. I don’t like, for instance, that, at their upcoming “Unrig Summit” in Nashville, their speakers are going to include the likes of Tulsi “I’ never met a dictator that I didn’t like” Gabbard, Howard “I want to run as an independent even if it means […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, American Anti-Corruption Act, campaign financing, Citizens Redistricting Commission, corporatocracy, Donald Trump, Election Day, ethics, For the People Act of 2019, gerrymandering, Hillary Clinton, Howard Schultz, Jennifer Lawrence, Jill Stein, lobbying, Michigan, Mitch McConnell, money in politics, Nina Turner, nonpartisan, populism, Proposition 2, redistricting, RepresentUs, rigged system, threats to Democracy, Tulsi Gabbard, Unbreak America, Unrig Summit, vote the bums out, voter suppression | 47 Comments

This is the galvanizing moment we’ve been waiting for… Democratic Senators are filibustering, teachers are outside the Capital protesting, and we’re effectively shutting down the offices of those who haven’t yet come out against Betsy DeVos

By Mark | February 6, 2017

[above: Photo by Evan Sutton from today’s protest in D.C. against embattled Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos.] The Senate vote on Betsy DeVos, the pyramid scheme billionaire turned anti-public education crusader who’s attempting to buy her way into Trump’s Cabinet, was supposed to happen today. And, the way things looked this morning, she was […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Betsy DeVos, buying influence, buying politicians, charter schools, confirmation hearings, Dean Heller, Deb Fischer, Debbie Stabenow, Department of Education, dismantling of public education, education reform, filibustering, for-profit charter schools, John Hoeven, Pat Toomey, Patty Murray, protests, public education, Secretary of Education, Senate, threats to public education | 20 Comments

This Monday, Betsy DeVos is likely to be handed the Department of Education by those Republican Senators that she’s admitted to having bought off

By Mark | February 4, 2017

I can’t say for certain whether or not the dollar amounts indicated on this chart, which was floating around the internet today, are absolutely accurate, but, from what I know about DeVos, and what she herself has said about spending money in order to get politicians to do what she wants, I don’t have much […]

Posted in Education, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Betsy DeVos, buying influence, buying politicians, charter schools, confirmation hearings, Department of Education, Dick DeVos, dismantling of public education, for-profit charter schools, money as free speech, money in politics, schools of choice, threats to Democracy, threats to public education, virtual charters | 24 Comments

Bernie Sanders came to Ann Arbor today to attach Trump, and rile up the kids for Clinton… and it was awesome

By Mark | October 6, 2016

Endearingly disheveled hero of the American left, Senator Bernie Sanders, made his way through Michigan today, pumping up crowds on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the run up to next month’s presidential election. Our job, he told the crowd that gathered to hear him speak at the University of Michigan’s Museum […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, anti-science, Bangladesh, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, birther, Birthers, China, Citizens United, Constitutional amendments, Donald Trump, free college tuition, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, Hillary Clinton, How to get our Democracy Back, income inequality, Koch brothers, Mexico, middle class, misogyny, oligarchy, outsourcing, Presidential politics, racism, Science, Sheldon Adelson, Socialism, student debt, tax policy, taxes, threats to Democracy, threats to the middle class, trade agreements, Turkey, University of Michigan | 21 Comments

Tag Archives: get the money out of Washington

I’m endorsing Elizabeth Warren for President of the United States

Unbreaking America: focusing on popular nonpartisan state ballot initiatives to build momentum for national anti-corruption legislation

This is the galvanizing moment we’ve been waiting for… Democratic Senators are filibustering, teachers are outside the Capital protesting, and we’re effectively shutting down the offices of those who haven’t yet come out against Betsy DeVos

This Monday, Betsy DeVos is likely to be handed the Department of Education by those Republican Senators that she’s admitted to having bought off

Bernie Sanders came to Ann Arbor today to attach Trump, and rile up the kids for Clinton… and it was awesome

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