Category Archives: campaign finance
“Fact Check: Is The Clinton Foundation ‘The Most Transparent’?”
Peter Overby reports for NPR.
“Ethics Watch Files Complaint Against Citizens United”
Release:
On Friday, Colorado Ethics Watch filed a complaint with the Colorado Secretary of State against Citizens United for failure to file an electioneering disclosure report in connection with their television ads mentioning Governor John Hickenlooper, then a candidate… Continue reading
“How Record Spending Will Affect 2016 Election”
Amazon Offering 28% Off Preorders of My “Plutocrats United” Campaign Finance Book
“Republican Contenders Reach Out to Sheldon Adelson, Palms Up”
No #SCOTUS Order Today in WI John Doe Case
Although it was on Friday’s conference, there is no order in today’s O’Keefe v. Chisolm case, a case conservatives have urged the Supreme Court to take. The case fits into the argument that conservatives are being harassed in campaign finance… Continue reading
“Jeb Bush tells his donors they’ve helped make history”
“How SuperPacs Can Run Campaigns”
NYT editorial, echoing my Slate piece of last week, Jeb the Destroyer.
Jamie Raskin on Hillary Clinton and a Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
Jamie in Salon:
The country’s most prolific voting rights scholar and blogger, Richard Hasen—a colleague and friend of mine—is the most recent legal academic to pour cold water all over the movement for a constitutional amendment to rebuild the statutory… Continue reading
Quote of the Day
“What seems like really big money is less than a yacht,” Gingrich said in an interview. Wealthy donors could decide that “this year, instead of buying a new yacht, I’m going to spend $70 million on a candidate,” he said.… Continue reading
Clinton’s Campaign Finance Push as a Way to Inoculate Herself from Charges Related to Her Lack of Transparency?
John Dickerson:
This campaign finance pillar of the Clinton campaign appears to be weakened already, but some campaign finance advocates were skeptical that Clinton was ever going to have a big fight over campaign finance reform as she pledged,… Continue reading
“Intense Lobbying Failed to Assure Comcast’s Deal”
NYT:
Despite the distribution of $5.9 million in campaign contributions by the two companies during the 2014 election cycle, and the expenditure of an extraordinary $25 million on lobbying last year, no more than a handful of lawmakers signed… Continue reading