Category Archives: campaign finance
“‘It’s just inherently intimidating’: Watchdog agency under fire for pressuring groups it regulates to oppose legislation”
LAT:
A rare and heated dispute has erupted between California’s campaign finance regulators and open-government groups that have accused the watchdog agency of pressuring them to rescind their support for legislation designed to show who is funding political ads.
Supporters… Continue reading
“McCutcheon says court victory renders super PAC obsolete”
Mary Troyan for Gannett.
“Mega-donors shower attention on congressional races with late money surge”
This time of the election season is the best to see the Plutocrats in full bloom.
“Hillary Clinton’s main super PAC has raised $132 million. A third came from six wealthy allies.”
“FEC Faulted for Failure to Enforce Disclosure on Nonprofits”
Ken Doyle for Bloomberg BNA.
“Deadlock: FEC Commissioners Say They’re Failing to Investigate Campaign Violations”
Lessig Speaking to Bipartisan Campaign Reform Caucus on Thursday
Justice Kennedy’s Non-Comment to Lee Fang on How Citizens United Has Worked Out
Lee Fang buttonholed the Justice at what sounds like a conference, and you can listen to the brief exchange (before Fang asks if he’s being detained):
Fang: You wrote the Citizens United decision and the crux of that decision was… Continue reading
“Sheldon Adelson Backs G.O.P. Congressional Candidates More Than Donald Trump”
NYT:
The Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon G. Adelson is shifting tens of millions of dollars into groups backing congressional Republicans despite months of entreaties from allies of Donald J. Trump, according to several Republicans with knowledge of Mr. Adelson’s… Continue reading
” An inside look at how politicians beg for big checks”
Matea Gold for WaPo:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker had a lot of wealthy targets to hit in Palm Beach, Fla., on an April afternoon in 2011. There was a possible call with casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson. There was a private… Continue reading
“The Allure of Reform and A Modest Proposal”
Bauer:
Matt Grossman and David A Hopkins have pronounced many decades of liberal reform to be a failure. In a new book, they argue that the 1970s reform program did not lead to the success of liberal policies but… Continue reading
Adelson Gives Trump Super PAC a Relatively Paltry Sum of $5 Million; More Generous Supporting Rs for House and Senate
CNN:
Conservative megadonor Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, have committed roughly $45 million so far to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and downballot Republicans’ attempt to control Congress, according to a person familiar with Adelson’s thinking.
The billionaire on Tuesday… Continue reading
Breaking: Court Holds FEC Applied Wrong Test to See If Koch-Allied Groups are Breaking Law by Not Registering as Political Committees
Major win for CREW here.
The court’s opinion granting CREW summary judgment explains that the three (Republican) FEC Commissioners used the wrong test to decide if AAN and AJS (501(c)(4)s that don’t disclose their donors) violated the law by… Continue reading