Category Archives: campaign finance
“CFI Announces Updated Historical Campaign Finance Statistics through 2014”
Via email:
Now available on CFI’s website are updated versions of tables covering historical statistics on campaign finance through 2014. These cover activity for full federal election cycles, in some cases dating back to 1974. Newly added this year… Continue reading
Carly the Destroyer
Shane Goldmacher on Fiorina being the biggest outsourcer of campaign functions to her superpac.
“130 Lawmakers Call on President to Require Transparency in Political Spending”
New Lawsuit Challenging Presidential Debate Format
BAN:
On June 22, Level the Playing Field, Peter Ackerman, the Libertarian Party, and the Green Party, sued the Federal Election Commission in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The case asks that the FEC be required to consider… Continue reading
“The FEC and the Breakdown of the Rule of Law”
“Influence of Money in Politics a Top Concern for Voters”
WSJ Wash. Wire:
Americans express far more alarm about the influence of money in politics than the fact that another Bush and Clinton are running for the White House, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.
Asked… Continue reading
Former LA Supervisor Yaroslavsky Favors Unlimited Contributions to Candidates
LAT oped:
Neither the Supreme Court nor Congress is likely to change course anytime soon. In the meantime, something needs to be done.
Public financing of campaigns, something I didn’t always embrace, has clearly made a difference in Los… Continue reading
“Make Your Laws” Resubmits Ravel-Weintraub FEC Petititon
Here.
I think this moots the question whether Ellen Weintraub is a “person,” though I was looking forward to her incorporating as Weintraub Inc.
“GOP’s House and Senate super PACs step up sales pitch”
Politico:
The primary Senate and House Republican super PACs are joining forces in a major campaign to get Big Business to open its checkbook to the party.
The message isn’t subtle: the left is shelling out tens of millions… Continue reading
“The 2014 Term & the First Amendment — Surprising twists & turns”
Read Ron Collins at SCOTUSBlog.
“On the sad state of our so called democracy”
Lessig:
I have a letter in the New York Review of Books responding to Elizabeth Drew’s article about money in politics. (I had done another review of that review here.)
The point of my letter was to correct what… Continue reading
Shorter Bob Bauer: Grow Up, FEC Commissioners
When the political becomes the personal.