Education Reform and Innovation

Chairman Charlie Rangel’s 77th Annual Birthday Gala

With Special Guest

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

Ruby Dee, Chevy Chase, & Aretha Franklin

WEDNESDAY – AUGUST 8, 2007

6:00 PM

TAVERN ON THE GREEN

New York City

PLEASE RSVP TO WALTER SWETT AT 212-862-4990 or walter@rangelcampaign.org

Congressman Rangel has been a champion on Education reform. Congressman Charles B. Rangel is serving his 19th term as the Representative from the 15th Congressional District, comprising East and Central Harlem, the Upper West Side, and Washington Heights/Inwood neighborhoods of New York City. He is is the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, Chairman of the Board of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Dean of the New York State Congressional Delegation.

Getting Special Interest Money Out of State Elections

DATE: Monday, September 17, 2007

TIME: 8:00-10:00am

LOCATION: Harvard Club 27 West 44th Street

Panel in formation, confirmed panelists include:
Hon. Liz Krueger, New York State Senate

Jessica Wisneski, Clean Money, Clean Elections Coordinator,

Citizen Action of New York

DMI’s next installment in our Marketplace of Ideas will highlight the efforts of Dennis Burke. As an activist and the former director of Arizona Common Cause, Dennis Burke helped lead the 1998 effort to pass the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act by ballot proposition. The Act provides voluntary public financing to candidates for state-level elected office who agree to run without private campaign contributions. The system is funded by surcharges on civil and criminal fines and a voluntary tax check-off. Arizona’s Clean Elections system is credited with increasing the number of women and people of color running for state office, boosting voter turnout in communities of color, and reducing the influence of special interest campaign money.

Space is Limited. Please RSVP to 646.274.5700 or by e-mail at: DMI@DRUMMAJORINSTITUTE.ORG.