“Ciara Torres-Spelliscy: The strange legal marriage of the anti-choice movement and campaign finance”
In Guernica.
She also has this piece on Pence pay to play and the Trump campaign.
Update: Robbin Stewart replies.
Category Archives: campaign finance
“Plotting the End of Super PACs”
Justin Miller for TAP:
More than six years after the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, the free-spending super PACs that many progressives consider a blight on American democracy are the target of a multi-pronged campaign to put them out of… Continue reading
“Donald Trump forgives loans he made to his campaign and ends June with $20 million in the bank”
LAT:
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ended June with more than $20 million in the bank, according to federal campaign finance filings, as he rebounded from earlier dismal fundraising efforts.
Federal Court Strikes Some, Upholds Other Austin TX Campaign Finance Limits
More news from Texas!
Base limits upheld, aggregate limits not reached temporal limits and disbursement requirements struck down
“Did the Trump campaign violate federal law by using a Trump organization speechwriter?”
“Lobbyists have raised $7 million for Hillary Clinton. For Trump? Zero”
“Lewandowski Has Been Pitching Donors On His Own Pro-Trump Super PAC”
BuzzFeed:
“He was pitching donors in the suites the last two nights,” said a GOP fundraiser who deals with major donors. “I don’t know how it’s going, but he’s basically attacking the other two super pacs and saying that they… Continue reading
“On Campaign Finance, Republicans and Democrats Could Not Be Further Apart”
Paul Blumenthal reports for HuffPo.
FEC Wants to Know About Super PAC Expenses for “Fundraising” When Candidate’s Husband is Only Donor
Following up on this post, see this letter.
“States can bring political ‘dark money’ into the light”
Ann Ravel has written this LA Times oped.
FEC Defends Electioneering Communications Disclosure Requirements
Yeah, I’m Sure the Husband’s Super PAC is TOTALLY Independent of the Wife’s Campaign
Bethesda Magazine:
…Meanwhile, Epstein in early June put $300,000 into Maryland USA, an “independent expenditure” committee created late last year to promote Hoeber’s candidacy—bringing to more than $500,000 the amount that the couple has laid out over the past… Continue reading
“AP-GfK Poll: Trump supporters unfazed by reversal on self-funding”
Julie Bykowicz and Emily Swanson for AP:
Donald Trump’s voters adored him for mostly paying his own way in the first half of the presidential campaign. Yet those same people are shrugging their shoulders now that he’s raising money just… Continue reading
“Amid Convention Controversy, Little Known About Donors”
Ken Doyle, (momentarily) freed from the BNA paywall.