Category Archives: campaign finance
“Authorities unlikely to stop 2016 election fundraising free-for-all”
“Cruz super PAC claim: More than $37 million raised”
Teddy Schleifer for CNN.
Sargent Speaks to Rep. Sarbanes About Moving Campaign Finance Reform Forward
Here, at Plum Line.
“Americans Think Money In Politics Is A Problem, But Just How Big?”
Peter Overby for NPR.
“How to Make Friends and Influence Elections; This California winemaker has a private plane and a boat. Now he has a super PAC, too.”
“Jeb Bush, Taking His Time, Tests the Legal Definition of Candidate”
NYT on the Bush charade.
And as I explained in Jeb the Destroyer, this will have negative consequences for how candidates “run” in the future.
“Why U.S. billionaires may not be able to buy the 2016 election”
Emily Flitter for Reuters.
“Reform Groups Urge Senators to Co-sponsor and Support the Lobbying and Campaign Finance Reform Act”
Release:
In a letter sent today to Senators, reform groups strongly urged members of the Senate to support the Lobbying and Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2015, sponsored by Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO), which would limit the ability of… Continue reading
“Abbott Opposes Curbs on Dark Money”
“Public Citizen Applauds Senator Warren for Pushing the SEC to Act”
Release:
Public Citizen applauds U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) letter (PDF) to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Chair Mary Jo White raising issues concerning the agency’s regulatory and enforcement work. Sen. Warren’s thoughtful and detailed letter is… Continue reading
“Secret effort to sell Hillary Clinton to rich liberals; Campaign targets unenthusiastic donors on the party’s left”
“Poll Shows Americans Favor Overhaul of Campaign Financing”
NYT:
Americans of both parties fundamentally reject the regime of untrammeled money in elections made possible by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling and other court decisions and now favor a sweeping overhaul of how political campaigns are financed,… Continue reading
“Some GOP donors willing to give to many, just not Paul”
Julie Bykowicz, now on the money and politics beat at AP, writes this report.