Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

The only job he has had in the industry was as a carpenter. He helps recruit individuals and sometimes mentors them. He has had many mentors along his path to success such as, J.P and Maxine Waters. What caught my attention was the Black Op’s Campaign. I was amused how a politician can destroy the reputation of another. There is no connection between you and your opponent however, you can tamper with the system by harming their campaign with social media. Professors should promote the career pathways. Not only does it promote higher education but, it also gives a hands full experience to the individual. The career pathways that JP created helps the Los Angeles Trade Tech College as well. The pathways assignment takes off some of the burden of the college. Student success has many different meanings for different people. Chris suggests that the best way to be successful is to have degrees and to have a job in their field. It is better to have experience in your field so you have a higher possibility of being contracted. In politics, it is not what you know, it is who you know.…

Some proponents of term limits believe that political PACs would lose some of this power if term limits were imposed because it would disrupt the relationships between candidates and PACs by constantly rotating the politicians in power. However, the agencies that are sophisticated and eager to deploy their money in Washington and, as Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in the 2003 Supreme Court Case that upheld most of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, “Money, like water, will always find an outlet” In…

Charles Lane, in his weekly column from the The Washington Post, consistently uses facts and figure, a concerned tone, and a cause and effect expository mode in order to convey his argument about a current issue. However, he uses varying levels of sophistication in the three articles “The GOP’s health-care plan goes in the exact wrong direction,” “Who is to blame for the opioid epidemic,” and “Rahm Emanuel gears up for a modern day- Brown v. Board.” Lane supports each of his arguments with ample…

In the 2015-2016 election cycle, political action committees (PACs) raised $1.4 billion to aid presidential and congressional campaigns; the majority of that money is non-traceable and does not come with a name tag attached (Federal Election Commission). After the landmark Supreme Court Case of Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission, American politicians have been under fire for their cloak and dagger tactics to raise money for their political parties and election campaign finances.…

political arena. Chisholm joined a local Democratic club who worked to get rid of the white Democratic machine that held the power in her Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. The group challenged the white leaders on why the black neighborhoods were being ignored. The leaders tried to quiet Chisholm by placing her on the board of directors and when she continued to speak out, they removed her from the post. This was an early lesson for Chisholm that people in political power did not like to be…

Campaign finance is a very controversial topic among Americans. Not a lot of U.S. citizens seem to be content with the system in place today due to the rising costs. This results in the average citizen feeling as if candidates will be more responsive to the opinions of people who donate more versus those who donate less. In the spring of 2002, the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform act was passed. Later, in 2010, this reform act was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Citizens United…

Congresswoman Betty McCollum has been representing the fourth congressional district since the turn of the century and has effectively represented the bias of her of constituents in the House of Representatives. McCollum has an “almost perfect liberal voting record” as illustrated in Fig 1.5 which is more progressively liberal than her Democratic predecessor, Bruce Vento (Almanac) (Govtrackus). On Betty McCollum’s personal campaign website, she boasts being a champion for the social liberal…

Similar to the Republicans, the lack of internal democracy grows through party leadership. For Republicans, the lack of internal democracy was shown through President Barack Obama’s Presidency, for the Democrats it will be shown through the short period of Donald Trump’s Presidency. Today in the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader is Nancy Pelosi, who was once in the position of Speaker of the House. The Minority Leader in the Senate was once Harry Reid, but since his departure Chuck…

Once the lobbying efforts were over the committee then went into a discussion pertaining to all of our bills. To summarize this process it would be simple to say that it seemed more like an autocratic society in this committee meeting. Rather than using democratic values, the Committee Chair ran the show in a fashion that did not even resemble a democratic institution. Rather, the Committee Chair marked the bills up on her own with minimal input from her party. There was no votes on any of the…

The Republican Party was formed in 1854 by former members of the “Whig Democratic” and “Free Soil” parties who chose the party’s name to recall the Jeffersonian Republican’s concern with the national interest. The Republican Party is a more conservative while Democrats are more liberal. The Democratic Party was formed in 1790 as a group of Thomas Jefferson’s supporters. They demonstrated their beliefs in the principle of popular government and their opposition to monarchism. Democrats won every…