
The Advocate, February & March 2022
Mary Hartnett joins Clean Elections Minnesota as our first Executive Director, upcoming events, voting process changes
Mary Hartnett joins Clean Elections Minnesota as our first Executive Director, upcoming events, voting process changes
A recent letter to the Minneapolis Star Tribune questioned the need for Federal voting rights legislation. The system of electing presidents, in the writer’s view, has worked for more than two centuries; “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Nothing gives a political cynic more delight than repeating, with a world-weary sigh, a version of Lord Acton’s famous line, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”