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		<title>Dear Occupy: Do Democracy First.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Occupy Boston, I am honored and blessed to stand with Occupy. Together we are reawakening the nation, and the world, to go straight to the heart of our collective political life to demand with urgency and conviction: Democracy is for people! Consider this our formal introduction. I write to you as a democracy reformer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2012/01/10/dear-occupy-do-democracy-first/</link>
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		<title>MWDN: Investigation shows state lagging in online presence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Adam's note: The following is a re-post of a brilliant MetroWest Daily News article penned by Katie Lannan and Adam Tamburin (original source).  If we the people of Massachusetts got angry and active enough, we could force our representatives to solve these serious transparency gaps within a few years.] &#8211; Second in a series. Although the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/12/31/mwdn-investigation-shows-state-lagging-in-online-presence/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;A Florida &#8216;runoff benefit&#8217;?&#8221; by Brian C. Mooney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Adam's note: Just found this gem on the web while doing research for my upcoming workshop on IRV at the 2012 College Convention.  My own Congressman (Capuano) won the Dem primary with 23 percent of the vote -- a paltry mandate.] Boston Globe, 4/15/2001 &#8212; written by Brian C. Mooney Democracy is imperfect, as last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/12/24/a-florida-runoff-benefit-by-brian-c-mooney/</link>
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		<title>Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff tells all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You've got to get in the loop, and I've got the guy who will take us there.  Never before have we been granted such a trove of insider stories about how so many of our Members of Congress are bought and manipulated for special interest gain.  And the goods come straight from the most notorious lobbyist in recent history, Jack Abramoff.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/11/23/disgraced-lobbyist-jack-abramoff-tells-all/</link>
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		<title>Occupy: We are the 99%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy movement is awakening our nation to the rotten nut of our current democracy.  The energy and fury is palpable, and it is growing by the day.  Yet, still, national media personalities are criticizing the movement as lacking a demands or specificity.  My response: just wait.  The movement is evolving organically, and this very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/10/12/occupy-we-are-the-99/</link>
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		<title>Steve Grossman takes $45K from the liquor industry he regulates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading in the Globe about how Massachusetts State Treasurer Steve Grossman attended a fund-raiser for lobbyists, I posted the following on his Facebook fan page.  But first, the article&#8217;s most delectable quotation: In his biggest one-time haul of political cash since he took office, state Treasurer Steve Grossman accepted $45,000 at a fund-raiser earlier this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/10/01/steve-grossman-takes-45k-from-the-liquor-industry-he-regulates/</link>
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		<title>State Legislature Ethics Oversight Exchange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brilliant good government policy proposal of the week, courtesy of Herald co-worker Todd Prussman: an interstate compact in which two different state legislatures of comparable size agree to provide all ethics and rules oversight administrative duties for each other.  This way, there is a healthy amount of distance (disinterest) while one state&#8217;s office investigates cases [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/08/11/state-legislature-ethics-oversight-exchange/</link>
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		<title>Globe: Legislators&#8217; vital work veiled from public&#8217;s eye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to re-post this from The Boston Globe, as it captures a central fight we must wage for government openness in Massachusetts.  Here is the link to the original article. &#8211; July 08, 2011 &#124; By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff The $30.6 billion budget approved by the Legislature last week was negotiated almost entirely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/07/08/globe-legislators-vital-work-veiled-from-publics-eye/</link>
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		<title>Better runoff in an instant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Published as an Op-Ed in the Boston Herald: Boston taxpayers, take heed: You just paid $29 per ballot to elect a city councilor. You probably could’ve used that extra money for a half-tank of gas, or a night out at your favorite restaurant. Instead, you spent an estimated $83,000 so that 7 percent (2,886) of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/02/25/better-runoff-in-an-instant/</link>
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		<title>How to game an election, American-style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you thought John Kerry was a flip-flopper, then get a load of the candidates for the Massachusetts 10th Congressional open seat: Republican Jeff Perry caught fire and began peeling support away from his Democratic opponent, William Keating.  Then, out of nowhere, two lifelong career Democrats entered the race as un-enrolled candidates with tea party [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/02/16/majority-overruled-why-our-3000-year-old-voting-system-needs-an-upgrade/</link>
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