Category Archives: campaign finance
“Group accuses McCaskill of violating federal campaign finance laws”
CNN reports:
A conservative group filed a complaint against Sen. Claire McCaskill on Thursday, accusing her of violating federal campaign finance laws to beat Todd Akin in Missouri’s 2012 Senate race.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, a… Continue reading
“Pro-Republican ads funded by group with untraceable donors”
AP:
Opportunity News Media wants you to know it’s OK to be a Republican, and it is spending $3 million to say so in the presidential battleground states of Ohio and Colorado.
Where that money comes from is anybody’s… Continue reading
“Louisiana Republican Party sues over campaign contribution limits to state political parties”
The Advocate reports. I’ll have more on this suit coming Monday. As for why the last suit was dropped:
The Republican National Committee, along with the state party, sued the FEC last year over the same issue. But the RNC… Continue reading
“Lerner slammed ‘evil and dishonest’ GOP inquisitors; Emails give a revealing look behind the scenes at the IRS leading up to the nonprofit targeting scandal”
“Federal Election Commission finally names top lawyer — sort of”
Did Sanders Campaign Leak Lessig Memo on Campaign Reform as Campaign Issue?
@Lessig in the Daily Beast:
This was the argument that I had made to Sanders directly, as Politico reported yesterday, citing a confidential memo I had written, and that was apparently leaked to Politico by the campaign.… Continue reading
“The Strangest Campaign Pledge; Why it makes sense to support a candidate who vows to straighten out democracy and then quit.”
Eric Posner on Lessig at Slate:
So there is a mismatch between Lessig’s means—a dramatic run for office as an unprecedented “referendum president” who resigns as soon as his mandate is legislated—and his goal, which is at best incremental reform.… Continue reading
“Former lawmakers sit on tens of millions in campaign cash”
USA Today:
At least 141 former members of Congress retain campaign accounts containing a total of more than $46 million, a USA TODAY analysis found. Twenty are linked to campaign committees with more than $500,000 each. Nearly one-third of the… Continue reading
“Jeb Bush Super PAC Donors Also Spend Big To Influence Washington”
Paul Blumenthal reports for HuffPo.
“Donors Descend on Schumer and Others in Debate on Iran”
“Campaign Finance Reform PAC Wants to Be a Player in 2016”
“When Does a Candidate Become a Candidate?”
Brad Smith for the Daily Caller:
CLC wants the FEC to undertake a “fact-based” investigation to determine the moment that Jeb Bush and others became “actual” candidates, or began “testing the waters.” If that approach were the law, there would… Continue reading
“Conservatives Beware: The Speech Police Are Coming For You”
Paul Jossey writes for The Federalist.