Lerer Ventures' Ken Lerer: “We Are Going To Launch StopTheNRA.com”
Today at Disrupt NY, Ken Lerer and Ben Lerer took the stage to talk about Lerer Ventures and their respective entrepreneur stories. One thing that caught the attention of the audience is when Ken Lerer talked about gun control and a new StopTheNRA.com website. “We are going to launch StopTheNRA.com,” Ken Lerer said. The site should be up in about two weeks. They already own the domain name and it’s now just a matter of time. It will be a partnership with Mayor Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Gabrielle Giffords’ Americans for Responsible Solutions initiatives. The motivation behind this new site is to be more vocal about gun control. “We are doing something viral,” Ken Lerer said. A significant gun control bill that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers was brought to a vote in the senate a few weeks ago, but the effort failed, and the government is now back to square one. When asked about New York politics, Ken Lerer only had good things to say about ...
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How Online Voter Registration Might Empower Latinos And Doom The GOP – In 2 Charts
Access to online voter registration could spell doom for Republicans in the next election. Early research on California's online voter registration system finds that "A larger proportion of Latinas/os under 35 registered online than whites or Asian Americans of any gender." [PDF]. Namely, the very demographic widely credited for boosting Democratic victories in 2013 have an affinity for digital democracy.
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Election bump over, Obama approval drops to 43 percent: Reuters/IPSOS poll
WASHINGTON - Less than two months into his second term, President Barack Obama's approval rating has dropped and Americans blame him and his fellow Democrats almost as much as his Republican opponents for a fiscal mess.
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New Campaign Finance Case Has 'Potentially Disastrous' Impact for Wealthy to Buy 'Access and Influence'
The floodgates for wealthy Americans to "buy access and influence" in elections may open further, depending on the outcome of a campaign finance case the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear on Tuesday. The case challenges the aggregate limits an individual can give to candidates and PACS.
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Sour end to 2012 masks positive trends in America
CHICAGO - Many Americans seem to be in a sour mood as 2013 begins, after Hurricane Sandy ravaged parts of the East Coast, a gunman massacred 20 school children in Connecticut and a long, contentious election campaign was followed by failure to resolve the "fiscal cliff" issue by year-end.
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