Category Archives: campaign finance
“New Poll: Broad Support for Small-Donor Driven Solutions to Money in Politics”
Every Voice:
Seventy-two percent of Americans, a broad, bipartisan majority, support small-donor solutions to overhaul our broken campaign-finance system, according to new polling released today by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Every Voice.
“Voters from across the… Continue reading
“The Omnibus and the Direction of the Reform Debate”
“Spending bill bars IRS and others from forcing political disclosure”
Fredreka Schouten reports for USA Today.
“Conservative groups helped gut Wisconsin election laws”
“Adelson son-in-law orchestrated family’s purchase of Las Vegas Review-Journal”
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (on itself).
“Some Troubling Omnibus Riders Removed but Two Left in Would Encourage ‘Dark Money’ Abuses: Statement of Trevor Potter, Legal Center President”
“Riders on Party Spending Limits & Public Financing Left Out of Omnibus But Other Damaging Campaign Finance Riders Included”
Fred Wertheimer statement. See also Fred’s comments in the update to this post.
BIG: Campaign Finance Disclosure Efforts Dealt Severe Blow in Omnibus
While campaign finance reformers were busy fighting off an attempt by Sen. McConnell to include a rider in the omnibus which would allow for unlimited coordinated party spending with candidates, three other very bad campaign finance provisions slipped into the… Continue reading
“2 DAs back away from bid to revive probe into Walker campaign”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Two of the five district attorneys involved in an investigation of Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign and conservative groups are walking away from an attempt to revive the probe that the state Supreme Court terminated this summer.
In… Continue reading
“Analysis: Super PACs dominate airwaves in presidential contest”
Fredreka Schouten for USA Today.
“With 40th Anniversary of Buckley v. Valeo, Demos Reports Examine Money in Politics at the SCOTUS”
Demos:
Next year won’t just mark the most expensive and big money-dominated election in U.S. history–it is also the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court case that set the basic structure of campaign finance law. In Buckley at 40… Continue reading
“McConnell Can Make Super PACs Obsolete”
David Bossie for the National Review.
“Inside the 2016 black market for donor emails”
Shane Goldmacher for Politico:
cott Walker has begun selling access to his email list to pay off his leftover presidential debt, renting out the email addresses of hundreds of thousands of supporters to former rivals, including Marco Rubio, John Kasich,… Continue reading