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

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

Ken Vogel for Politico.

Arizona Republic: A campaign to stop a bill that loosens much of the control Arizona has over anonymous campaign spending has dropped it efforts to get the issue before voters. The Stop Corruption Now drive wanted to refer the state’s… Continue reading

WSJ: Hillary Clinton on Saturday will pledge to make an overhaul of the campaign-finance system an urgent priority, as she announces plans to introduce a constitutional amendment overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling during the first 30 days of… Continue reading

Peter Overby reports for NPR. And don’t miss Peter’s earlier How Picking Mike Pence As VP Might Cost The Trump Campaign Donations.

WaPo: Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district. And then, scandal. Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political… Continue reading

Politico reports. Time to re-up my Hillary Clinton’s Bad Campaign Finance Ideas; She’s right that money in politics is a problem. But suggesting a constitutional amendment is foolish,Slate, Apr. 16, 2015.

Vogel: Of that, Trump Victory transferred only $2.2 million to Trump’s presidential campaign committee, as compared to $10.1 million to the RNC, though $5.8 million of that went to funds that can’t be used for campaign activity, and are earmarked… Continue reading