Category Archives: campaign finance
“Voters are mad about mega-donors, and it’s helping Trump and Sanders”
“Court rejects appeal by group suing over Montana election laws”
AP:
A federal appeals court has rejected a request by a tax-exempt organization to overrule a judge’s order that it must reveal certain information about itself in the group’s lawsuit challenging Montana’s election laws.
Montanans for Community Development had… Continue reading
Ben Carson Puts Campaign “on Hold” to Fundraise? And Sell Books
“American Democracy Under Siege”
Quite a lineup at Harvard Oct. 29—part of the Scholars Strategy network.
Wish I could be there. Perhaps there will be a webcast.
Madeline Brand Talks to Larry Lessig About Election Reform, His Campaign
Listen to KCRW’s Press Play.
“The Gender Gap in Political Giving”
NYT’s The UpShot:
More women vote than men, and it has been true for decades. But women lag way behind men in another measure of political participation. Only about 30 percent of big donors to campaigns are women, which, in… Continue reading
“Money in Politics as a Civil Rights Issue”
This event will be in Durham Thursday night.
“Lawmakers clash on campaign finance law, dismantling GAB”
Patrick Marley for the Journal-Sentinel:
As the committees at a joint hearing debated the bill on the accountability board, Sen. Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield) asked the board’s director, Kevin Kennedy, about his professional relationship with Lois Lerner, the former IRS official… Continue reading
“Tables Turn on Vague Campaign Finance Regulation”
Steve Klein on Marc Elias’s FEC advisory opinion request on Super PACs.
“Would bill allow retiring politicians to use campaign funds on cars, homes?”
The latest from Wisconsin on the double whammy to kill the GAB and eviscerate the state’s campaign finance laws.
Heavy Independent Spending in NJ Races
See this press release from ELEC.
“The Chairwoman Who’s At War With Her Own Agency”
Andy Kroll reports on Ann Ravel.