Category Archives: campaign finance
“Counter plutocracy with public financing”
“When the Supreme Court is this wrong, it’s time to overrule them”
Dorris Kearns Goodwin and Jeff Clements want a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
“Political Corruption, Equality, and Campaign Finance Reform — A Response to Larry Lessig”
Paul Jossey at Medium.
“Jeb Bush, the Undecider-in-Chief”
Josh Voorhies for Slate. My earlier Slate piece: Jeb the Destroyer.
“Petersen, Hunter Distance Themselves From Goodman on Partisanship at FEC”
Bloomberg BNA:
Two Republicans on the Federal Election Commission, Matthew Petersen and Caroline Hunter, are distancing themselves from recent, controversial comments by fellow Republican Lee Goodman about the partisan impact of FEC enforcement decisions.
“After the recent dustup regarding… Continue reading
“Anti-Hillary groups to FEC: Take a hike”
CPI:
A pair of anti-Hillary Clinton political committees are effectively telling the Federal Election Commission to take a long walk off a tall mountain.
The groups — Dick Morris’s Just Say No to Hillary PAC and the Stop Hillary… Continue reading
FEC Commissioners Peterson and Hunter on Partisanship and Enforcement at the FEC
Following up on the latest comments from Commissioner Goodman, FEC Vice Chair Peterson and Commissioner Hunter (the two other Republican-appointees to the Commission) send along the following statement:
“After the recent dustup regarding alleged partisan considerations in the FEC’s enforcement… Continue reading
“The Tyrannosaurus Rex of State Politics: Billionaire Rex Sinquefield’s crusade to control Missouri politics sheds light on the power and limits of money in contemporary American politics.”
Alan Greenblatt for Governing.
“The coming revolution in campaign communication”
Nate Persily in the SacBee:
With the shift of campaign communication to the Internet, new policies and practices will need to be developed. This transition provides an opportunity for reforms that might address many of the well-known pathologies of campaign… Continue reading
“Jeb Bush: ‘I would never’ violate campaign laws”
WaPo:
“I would never do that,” he told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “And I’m nearing the end of this journey of traveling and listening to people, garnering, trying to get a sense of whether my candidacy would be viable… Continue reading
“Hillary Clinton campaign scores Ready for Hillary email list”
Democrats: Plutocrats Wanted
A-1 NYT. Really, what choice do Democrats have in this era but to beg for the support of the uber-rich?
Yet this quote from Harold Ickes is priceless, as if only Democratic plutocrats are philanthropic:
“Our side isn’t used to… Continue reading
“Jeb Bush’s History of Outsourcing His Campaign So He Can Raise Big Money”
S.V. Date reports for National Journal.