John Pudner
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Read MoreThe Founders wanted elected officials to live among the people they represent. In the year 2020, we now have the technology to enable that to happen. Wouldn’t it be nice if lobbyists had to pay for flights and hotels to visit elected officials in their district instead of constituents needing to fly to D.C. to see their representative? To read John’s op-ed in its entirety click here
Read MoreThe rationale for allowing Congress to work remotely at least some of the time makes a lot of sense. Some of the reasons floated to us by supporters on both sides of the aisle: It could make it easier for lawmakers financially not to have to spend so much on a second residence in an expensive place such as D.C. On the extreme end of remote-work, they’d be in the capital less. It could help reduce the influence of lobbyists […]
Read MoreJohn Pudner is the President of Take Back Action, a conservative election group. He opposes Amendment One and his group has contributed $100,000 urging voters to vote no on today’s state constitutional amendment. “Kay Ivey is a great Governor, but having won elected school boards across Virginia beginning in the 1990s, I know firsthand that citizen-run school boards always do better than government-run. Alabama is better off without Amendment One which would take power away from the people.” Pudner said […]
Read MoreTake Back Our Republic Executive Director John Pudner and Deputy Director Justin Hill are in Florence, Alabama this weekend working the first ever Conservative Leadership Conference. The Conservative Leadership Conference and U.S. Senate forum will be Saturday from noon to 9:00 p.m. at the Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Florence. The event is sponsored by the Conservative Leadership Council, a 501c4, and is free and open to the public. The Marriott Hotel & Conference Center is at 10 Hightower […]
Read MoreCritics of dark-money political groups argue that all funds donated to these organizations are fungible in the sense that giving money to a group for a specific purpose helps offset the costs of the group’s other activities and overhead. “At some point the money you’re giving is freeing up resources to spend elsewhere and you are contributing to that – whether you like it or not,” said John Pudner, executive director of Take Back Our Republic, a conservative watchdog group […]
Read More“Instant-runoff most importantly saves Georgia a ton of money. The local option wouldjust be saying the locality can use this instead of a traditional run-off if they want andrunning a run-off kills local budgets. For example, DeKalb County has to pay about$300,000 if they end up having to run a run-off. For Fulton County, it’s $1.1 million andfor Cobb County, it’s almost $300,000. So for a lot of these localities, especially smallerones, run-offs are a real budget breaker. If they […]
Read MoreIf you click on TBOR’s media page you will note coverage from many of the biggest media outlets in the country. Educating the public entails media coverage, and in particular, covered by the top political sites in the country that drive policy. Alexa estimated the clicks of all websites and calculates that the top 15 political sites drew a total of 303 million visits in the past month. http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/political-websites. Of those 15 sites, 10 have covered Take Back Our Republic, and […]
Read MoreA few days before the U.S. Senate impeachment trial wrapped up with only one Republican and one Democrat breaking with their party, three Democrats broke with party 100 miles south of D.C. to defeat an attempt to basically give Virginia’s electoral votes away to big cities like Los Angeles and New York The three votes were decisive in the 10-12 loss for HB 177, an attempt to get a 17th state to agree to give up their electoral votes by having […]
Read MoreOn Monday’s ten-year anniversary of the Citizens United ruling. TBOR’s John Pudner along with representatives from a host of other good government organizations gathered at the capitol to discuss solutions and alternatives to the Supreme Court ruling. Check out John’s speech below.
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