Category Archives: campaign finance
“Ryan-linked group raised $24.6M from anonymous donor”
Politico:
American Action Network, the nonprofit group closely aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan, raised a record $41.9 million amid the GOP push to repeal Obamacare and restructure the tax code — more than half of which came from one… Continue reading
“FEC Democrat Pushes for Foreign Campaign Money Rules”
Bloomberg BNA:
A Democrat on the Federal Election Commission is renewing her push for FEC rules to prevent foreign campaign spending following an announcement from the Senate Intelligence Committee confirming Russian election meddling.
“There is no doubt that Russia undertook… Continue reading
“Politicos beware: Court ruling could prompt more transparent campaign spending”
CPI:
The Federal Election Commission could begin demanding more information about the vendors and consultants political committees pay, thanks to a federal appeals court decision Friday.
The impact of the decision — which could have implications for how precisely political… Continue reading
Supreme Court, Without Noted Dissent, Denies Cert. in Holmes v. FEC Campaign Contributions Case
Order list.
Here’s the unanimous DC Circuit opinion by Judge Srinivasian.
The theory of this case always struck me as weak and odd.
“Russ Feingold and Ro Khanna: A new approach to big money in politics”
Concord Monitor oped:
If McCain-Feingold was the campaign finance gold standard of its time, the Democracy Dollars Act is the boldest campaign finance proposal today. The act provides every registered voter 50 “Democracy Dollars” – $25 for presidential elections, $15… Continue reading
“The FPPC Chair Should Be Part-Time, Not Full-Time”
Bob Stern:
I made a mistake when drafting the Political Reform Act of 1974, Proposition 9 passed by 70% of California’s voters in June of 1974.
When Dan Lowenstein, the chief drafter of the Act, and I worked together on… Continue reading
“Facebook is Banning Foreign Ad Buys Around an Irish Referendum. Could it Do the Same in the US?”
“Study: Most Americans want to kill ‘Citizens United’ with constitutional amendment”
CFI will become part of the National Institute on Money in Politics
Big and exciting news in the election law biz, combining two very important organizations collecting and analyzing campaign finance data:
The National Institute on Money in State Politics (National Institute) and the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) jointly announced today that… Continue reading
“Rosie O’Donnell’s campaign donations to Dems went over legal limit”
NY Post:
Rosie O’Donnell made illegally over-sized campaign donations to at least five Democratic federal candidates, according to a Post analysis of campaign filings.
The liberal comedian has regularly broken Federal Election Commission rules limiting the total any one person… Continue reading
“Citizens United isn’t to blame for our money-in-politics woes”
“CFI Launches 2018 Web Tool For Independent Spending in Primaries”
Release:
Independent expenditures (IEs) will be playing a significant role again in select House and Senate primaries leading up to the midterm election. And the Campaign Finance Institute will once again be tracking that spending through a primary tracking tool… Continue reading
“Donald Trump, John Edwards, and the Mistress Loophole; Maybe Rudy Giuliani knows what he’s doing after all.”
Stephen Weissman for the American Interest:
One can imagine how Lowell’s argument would be grasped by counsel defending Cohen and Trump. So would other statements about the Edwards case by former FEC Commissioners. Before the trial, Thomas and another Democratic… Continue reading