Nick Nyhart
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Nick Nyhart is the president and CEO of Public Campaign
, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to taking the special interest money out of the political process through implementing publicly financed elections, or Clean Elections
.
Since the early 1990s Nyhart has worked with reformers and their allies across the country in pursuit of publicly-financed elections. Prior to his work at Public Campaign, Nyhart directed a six-state campaign finance organizing project for Northeast Action with a focus on winning Clean Elections initiative victories in Maine and Massachusetts. The project’s work with money and politics activists across the Northeast put the region in the national spotlight with its cutting edge reform measures.
A former community organizer
, Nyhart is a veteran of grassroots issue and electoral coalition politics in Connecticut.
He has been quoted by the Financial Times
, the Salt Lake Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/17/EDGRMLJJCC1.DTL&hw=clean+money&sn=003&sc=709, among others. His letters and commentary have appeared in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/opinion/l26finance.html?_r=1&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fLetters&oref=slogin, Los Angeles Times, National Civic Review, and the Oregonian.
Public Campaign
Public Campaign is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to sweeping reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics. Public Campaign works to bring Clean Elections, or publicly financed elections to local, state, and federal elections...
, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to taking the special interest money out of the political process through implementing publicly financed elections, or Clean Elections
Clean elections
"Clean Elections" is a term used to describe a particular system of government financing of political campaigns, in which the government provides a grant to candidates who agree to limit their and private fundraising efforts and limit their campaign-spending.- In the United States :Clean Election...
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Since the early 1990s Nyhart has worked with reformers and their allies across the country in pursuit of publicly-financed elections. Prior to his work at Public Campaign, Nyhart directed a six-state campaign finance organizing project for Northeast Action with a focus on winning Clean Elections initiative victories in Maine and Massachusetts. The project’s work with money and politics activists across the Northeast put the region in the national spotlight with its cutting edge reform measures.
A former community organizer
Community organizing
Community organizing is a process where people who live in proximity to each other come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest. A core goal of community organizing is to generate durable power for an organization representing the community, allowing it to influence...
, Nyhart is a veteran of grassroots issue and electoral coalition politics in Connecticut.
He has been quoted by the Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
, the Salt Lake Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/17/EDGRMLJJCC1.DTL&hw=clean+money&sn=003&sc=709, among others. His letters and commentary have appeared in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/opinion/l26finance.html?_r=1&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fLetters&oref=slogin, Los Angeles Times, National Civic Review, and the Oregonian.