“Money Talks: Legal changes have opened the door to new kinds of political spending. What does the money buy?”
Jesse Romero has written this article for Econ Focus of the Richmond Fed.
Category Archives: campaign finance
“Media Executives are Salivating over Big Money Flooding the 2016 Election Cycle”
“How Scott Walker and His Allies Hijacked the Wisconsin Supreme Court; And what it means for the probe into alleged campaign violations by Walker and conservative dark-money groups.”
Pema Levy for Mother Jones.
“Liberal operatives paid big bucks by embattled pro-Clinton super PAC”
“Karl Rove’s Crossroads Empire Adds a New Senate Defense Arm; A new secret-money nonprofit branch will focus on defending the GOP majority.”
Shane Goldmacher with an important addition to Eric Lichtblau’s earlier story on Crossroads.
FEC Commissioner Ravel Reponds to My Post About Commissioner Goodman and Partisan Bias
Yesterday I posted a link to an article quoting FEC Commissioner Goodman claiming that there are many more complaints against Republican and conservative campaign finance organizations than liberal and Democratic ones. I offered three potential reasons for the disparity. FEC… Continue reading
“Missouri secretary of state candidate files voter ID measure”
“A Court Failing the Nation”
Gene Nichol on the Supreme Court and campaign finance at the ACS blog.
“Gyrocopter pilot: I will take campaign finance reform fight to jury if needed”
“F.E.C. Member Says System Tilts Against Conservative Groups”
“Goodman: FEC Backlog Mainly Includes Cases Against Republicans, Conservatives”
Bloomberg BNA:
Republican commissioners on the Federal Election Commission are reluctant to approve new procedures to speed up resolution of pending campaign finance enforcement matters because the backlog of pending complaints at the FEC involves many more Republicans and… Continue reading
“Rove’s Crossroads PAC Is No Longer G.O.P.’s ‘Big Dog’”
“How the Money Primary is Undermining Voting Rights”
Ari Berman cover story in the new issue of The Nation.