“Making Progress on Campaign Finance Reform”
Third Way is hosting this event in DC on May 20.
Category Archives: campaign finance
Trump Channels Sergeant Schultz’s “I Know Nothing”
This:
But Trump expressed little concern this week that a super PAC called Great America PAC was emerging as the vehicle of choice for wealthy Trump supporters and praised one of the group’s advisers, longtime Republican consultant Ed Rollins.… Continue reading
“Options for Continued Reform of Money in Politics: Citizens United is Not the End”
Nicole Gordon (of the NYC Campaign Finance Board) has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Albany Law Review).
“Bernie Sanders’s Legacy? The Left May No Longer Need the Rich”
NYT’sThe UpShot:
Mr. Sanders’s weakness among affluent Democrats and his strength among working-class Democrats might seem unsurprising, given his class-focused message. Mr. Sanders himself anticipated it in an interview with The Upshot in July.
But in broader historical terms, it… Continue reading
“Former Ron Paul aide, Trump super PAC chief convicted in campaign finance trial”
CNN:
A former aide to Ron Paul and current strategist for a pro-Donald Trump super PAC was convicted Thursday of falsifying campaign records in a 2012 scheme to pay for a presidential endorsement.
A federal jury in Iowa found Jesse… Continue reading
“Sheldon Adelson Says He Will Support Donald Trump”
NYT:
The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson said on Thursday night that he would support Donald J. Trump now that he has become the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee.
“Yes, I’m a Republican, he’s a Republican,” Mr. Adelson said in a… Continue reading
After Ken Vogel Story, Politifact Now Rates as Half-True George Clooney Statement About Clinton Fundraising
Politifact:
Editor’s note, May 4, 2016: We originally published this item on April 17 and rated it Mostly True. Since then, readers have contacted us to consider other evidence about the Democratic Party’s fundraising processes, especially state parties sending money… Continue reading
“Donald Trump’s new finance guru: once a Clinton donor, Soros employee”
“KY Campaign Regulator Reinstates Ban on Corporate Contributions to Political Campaigns; Allows Corporate-Sponsored PACs”
“Often-secret donors spend big to push elected officials’ pet projects”
Must-read from Fredreka Schouten and Mary Troyan USA Today:
The Alabama political scandal that has cost the state’s governor his marriage and now threatens his job has thrust politicians’ growing use of often-secretly funded nonprofits into the spotlight.
Gov.… Continue reading
Bauer on Kinsley on CU
“The Distillery: Resurrecting Political Equality”
Johanna Kalb at the Brennan Center:
In May, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online will publish a series of essays examining the role that political equality could play in the Supreme Court’s campaign finance jurisprudence. The authors in this… Continue reading
“Judge challenges attorneys as campaign finance trial wraps up”
Alaska Dispatch News:
A weeklong trial in a lawsuit challenging the state’s campaign contribution limits came to a close Tuesday, with U.S. District Judge Timothy Burgess asking probing questions of attorneys defending the state’s limits on nonresident contributions and… Continue reading
“Donald Trump Won’t Self-Fund General-Election Campaign”
WSJ:
Donald Trump won’t self-fund his general-election campaign, and will instead create a “world-class finance organization,” the presumptive Republican nominee said in an interview on Wednesday.
For a campaign expected to cost more than $1 billion, “I’ll be putting up… Continue reading