“Political Consultant To Be Sentenced For Violating Campaign Finance Law”
Peter Overby reports for NPR.
Category Archives: campaign finance
“The Party as Database”
Jack Balkin:
Last year, in my essay The Last Days of Disco: Why the American Political System is Dysfunctional, I explained that modern American political parties were turning into databases connected to fundraising operations. The two major political… Continue reading
“Anti-Hillary Clinton Group Refuses to Change Name, Defying FEC Order”
Byron Tau for the WSJ Wash. Wire.
“Why Is John Roberts Siding With the Supreme Court’s Liberals?”
Adam Winkler writes at Slate.
Adam Smith Sympathizes with RNC Complaints About Koch Big Money
Every Voice:
The massive political network of the billionaire Koch brothers has made a surprising new enemy: The Republican National Committee (RNC). “The RNC is now openly arguing, however, that the Kochs’ political operation is trying to control the… Continue reading
Pete Peterson at Zocalo Talks About Running for CA Secretary of State
Peterson:
Also favoring the insider—particularly in California—is the substantial presence of the “third house”—a vast network of associations, corporations, and unions with lobbying interests in Sacramento. Most Californians have never heard of the California Infill Builders Federation PAC, the… Continue reading
“Ballot Talks: Delayed presidential bids and campaign finance reform”
WHYY Radio Times:
Ballot Talks: Delayed presidential bids and campaign finance reform
June 11, 2015
Hour 1
Guests: Paul Seamus Ryan, Nate Persily, Eric Lichtblau
Jeb Bush said he’ll be announcing his bid for the 2016 election on… Continue reading
“This Web site allows political donors to give money based on how lawmakers vote. Just don’t call it bribery.”
WaPo on the If-Then Fund.
“‘Desperate’ at the FEC Part II: The Risks of Unintended Consequences”
Ravel-Weintraub petition may backfire. Bauer makes the case.
“It’s PAC Season: Time to Put Up a Firewall, Attorneys Say”
“Top aide to Fla. ex-congressman will plead guilty to breaking election law”
Miami Herald: “A former campaign manager for onetime Democratic Congressman Joe Garcia plans to plead guilty Thursday in Miami federal court to financing a tea party candidate in a scheme to siphon votes from his Republican nemesis.”
“One Governor’s Audacious, Unprecedented Effort To Use Personal Wealth To Re-Create The Legislature”
Sacha Feinman for Think Progress on Illinois’s Governor Rauner.
“Here’s Jeb Bush’s paperwork to run for president, at long last”
WaPo reports.
It’s amazing. I guess it takes helping your Super PAC try to raise $100 million for your campaign and making literally dozens of campaign appearances, including in early caucus and primary states, to help someone who is not… Continue reading
“CCP Study Shows IRS ‘almost universally hostile towards nonprofits’ for decades”
CCP:
The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) today released a report by Allison R. Hayward, an election law attorney in California, entitled “Eternal Inconsistency,” on the history of how the IRS has, according to the report, “been almost universally… Continue reading