“Federal Election Commission Chair Ann Ravel on Record Campaign Spending and Overcoming Gridlock”
KQED interview.
Category Archives: campaign finance
“How campaign finance regulation contributes to congressional dysfunction”
Jonathan Adler for Volokh.
“New Rankings Highlight Corporate Transparency In Politics”
Peter Overby for NPR.
“The New Public Option: Despite hostile courts, can our campaign-finance system be reformed from the bottom up?”
Justin Miller forTAP.
“The Justice Department Is Now on the Campaign Finance Beat”
“Charles Koch Denies Dark Money Donations”
Paul Blumenthal for HuffPo:
“First of all, what I give isn’t ‘dark.’ What I give politically, that’s all reported,” he said. “It’s either to PACs or to candidates. And what I give to my foundations is all public information.”
This… Continue reading
“Sidelined by Democrats, Larry Lessig considers running against them”
Wapo:
“Trump said he would stay in the party, and refuse to run as an independent, as long as the Republicans treated him fairly,” said Lessig. “I’m beginning to have a sense of what he was talking about. If… Continue reading
Wisconsin Legislature Rushes to Dismantle Nonpartisan Election Agency, Kill Campaign Finance Regulation
Common Cause Wisconsin:
Very late Friday, when few people were paying attention, state legislative Republicans posted this notice for a public hearing on Tuesday, October 13th in the Capitol for measures to eviscerate the non-partisan GAB, and to destroy… Continue reading
“Koch Political Network Takes A Deep Dive Into Community Organizing”
Peter Overby reports for NPR.
“Nonprofit Masks Source of Ads Backing Rubio”
NYT:
But as the fall campaign unfolds, voters in states like New Hampshire and Iowa have been left largely in the dark about who is putting the most money behind Mr. Rubio. Of all the television advertisements aired in… Continue reading
“True Independent Speech”
“Local TV Stations Booming From Super-PAC Windfall”
“Justice Kennedy’s Political Casino”
Frank Wilkinson writes for Bloomberg View:
The 2016 presidential campaign is unfolding in Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s world.
Kennedy’s majority opinion in Citizens United, the court’s 2010 ruling on campaign finance, gave corporations, unions and billionaires more leeway… Continue reading
Nick Confessore’s Deep Dive into America’s Plutocracy
Drop everything and read this (online, because the graphics are fantastic):
Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House….
They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation… Continue reading