“Conservative group put historic mark on campaign finance system”
USA Today on Citizens United (the group).
Category Archives: campaign finance
“John Roberts’s Roadmap for Campaign-Finance Reform”
Ackerman and Ayres on Willams-Yulee.
“How to Push Back Against Billionaire Donors”
Peter Beinart at The Atlantic.
“Hillary Clinton’s use of ‘super PAC’ may undercut her finance reform message”
Evan Halper writes for the LAT.
“Democrats embrace the logic of ‘Citizens United’”
Larry Lessig WaPo oped:
That consensus among Democrats has now been shattered by a book by conservative writer Peter Schweizer. In “Clinton Cash,” Schweizer charges Bill and Hillary Clinton with corruption. Not because there is evidence of… Continue reading
“Jeb Bush’s $100M May; Inside the most ambitious presidential super PAC yet.”
“The Campaign Finance Gyrocopter Man Describes His New, Surreal Existence”
Weigel:
After his short stint in jail, Doug Hughes returned home to collect a letter from a personal hero. Hughes, the 61-year old postal worker who piloted a gyrocopter onto the lawn of the Capitol, had tried to tell … Continue reading
“17 Months Before Election Day, One Campaign Aims For $100 Million”
Peter Overby reports for NPR.
“The Court’s Changing Conception of Corruption”
“Why Jeb Bush Can’t Spend His Way to the Win”
“The FEC’s ‘non-partisan’ whistleblower”
Politico on FEC Chair Ravel.
It is amazing how much attention the FEC has gotten this week since the publication of Eric Licthbalu’s NYT story on dysfunction at the FEC.
But as readers of this blog know, the story is… Continue reading
“Big money politics runs amok with FEC in gridlock”
Watch FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub on Maddow.
“Decline in FEC Enforcement Actions Detailed in New Statistical Information”
Bloomberg BNA:
Enforcement of campaign finance laws by the Federal Election Commission has fallen significantly in recent years, as measured by the total amount of fines and average fines collected by the agency, according to a Bloomberg BNA review… Continue reading
Steve Klein on Rauch on Campaign Financing
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