“10 Montana Republicans call for special session on campaign finance”
The latest from Montana.
Category Archives: campaign finance
“Sheldon Adelson in Talks to Create Pro-Trump Super PAC”
WSJ:
Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson is looking to set up a super PAC to support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, a move that would add financial firepower from one of the most prolific donors of the 2012 cycle.
Creation… Continue reading
“D.C. lobbyist drops first Trump general election fundraiser after ‘bullying’ from Trump attorney”
Interesting press release:
Burkman says he invited Trump to the fundraiser that was set for June 1 at his Arlington, Virginia home. He invited fellow lobbyists and government contractors.
The shindig, which received widespread national coverage and interest from… Continue reading
“EXCLUSIVE: De Blasio doled out city appointments from shady spreadsheet of big campaign donors”
NYDN:
When Mayor de Blasio began handing out prestigious appointments to obscure boards and committees in his first months in City Hall, he turned to a system of cash for cachet.
His team assembled an elite spreadsheet of major… Continue reading
“Jerry Brown should veto California’s misleading ‘Citizen’s United’ referendum”
“In California, varied election filing practices reveal a system struggling to catch up”
LAT:
More than half of California’s counties — most of them small and rural — don’t provide online access to campaign finance records, and they say they aren’t likely to change any time soon, an assessment of county-level contribution records… Continue reading
“One of the All-Time Great Cases in Supreme Court History”
Mitch McConnell on Citizens United.
“‘Friends and family’ super PACs play big in some House races”
USA Today:
A USA TODAY analysis of newly filed reports found 182 super PACs with three or fewer donors during the 2016 election cycle. In all, they have collected $71.6 million or nearly 10% of the $766 million raised … Continue reading
“Liberals Versus Political Speech; The Left wants to put people behind bars for expressing opinions that it doesn’t like.”
John McGinnis in City Journal.
“Big, outside money expected in Montana Supreme Court race”
“Citizens Coerced: A Legislative Fix for Workplace Political Intimidation Post-Citizens United”
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Paul Secunda write for UCLA Law Review Discourse.
“Television Networks Struggle to Provide Equal Airtime in the Era of Trump”
NYT:
Last week, none of the three major cable news networks — CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC — carried Mrs. Clinton’s speech to a workers’ union in Las Vegas, where she debuted sharp new attack lines against Mr. Trump.… Continue reading
“Today’s Dose of Liberal Heresy: Campaign Finance Reform Isn’t That Big a Deal”
Kevin Drum for Mother Jones.
I address similar arguments by Jonathan Bernstein and Ezra Klein in chapter 8 of Plutocrats United.
“‘You’re mistaken. I don’t have a commercial’: Record special interest funds present an ‘awkward’ situation for state candidates”
LAT:
Independent expenditures already have cracked $24 million in the run-up to the June 7 primary, with millions more likely to come in over the next week. The spending has set a record and is a hefty increase from $16.7… Continue reading