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Let the sun shine in this week! ...on our government in Washington, DC:

This Sunshine Week, as the nation commemorates the importance of open government and freedom of information, the Sunlight Foundation is leading a campaign to engage voters to call on their lawmakers and the Obama administration to address the disastrous effects of the game -- changing rulings by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) and a federal district court in SpeechNow.org v. FEC. These rulings paved the way the rise of super PACs and for a small group of elites to spend unprecedented sums -- with little or no transparency -- to influence voters.

To address this problem, Congress should take immediate action by passing the DISCLOSE Act, recently introduced in the House (H.R. 4010, available via OpenCongress here). This bill is an update to a previous version introduced two years ago in the last Congress, and goes straight to the problem: the lack of transparency for unlimited, secret super PAC money and the influence it has on our elections and our elected officials. This simplified bill, stripped of controversial non-transparency provisions the previous version contained, is a good solution to the 'dark money' problem.

We adore the Sunshine Foundation because they are non-partisan and devoted to opening up our government, which is owned and operated by us..not "them." Follow their easy-to-use instructions on composing a letter to the editor that will then get automatically sent to newspapers in and near your zip code.

Get crackin' so we can part the clouds and let the sun shine down!

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