Category Archives: campaigns

“New Study: Longer Presidential Campaigns Correlated With Contribution Limits”

May 11, 2015, 7:15 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

CCP: The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), America’s largest non-profit working to promote and defend First Amendment rights to free political speech, assembly, and petition, today released a study showing that since the Federal candidate contribution limits were implemented… Continue reading

“The Campaign Finance Gyrocopter Man Describes His New, Surreal Existence”

May 8, 2015, 10:30 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

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”

May 8, 2015, 10:21 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Peter Overby reports for NPR.

“Why Jeb Bush Can’t Spend His Way to the Win”

May 8, 2015, 8:10 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

National Journal.

“Kentucky prohibits electioneering with 100 feet of polls after court strikes down 300-foot ban’

May 7, 2015, 1:54 pmcampaignsRick Hasen

See here.

“Inside Jeb Bush’s long game: A bet on peaking late”

May 6, 2015, 7:29 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

WaPo reports.

“Hillary Clinton to Court Donors for Super PAC”

May 6, 2015, 2:46 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

NYT: Hillary Rodham Clinton will begin personally courting donors for a super PAC supporting her candidacy, the first time a Democratic presidential candidate has fully embraced the independent groups that can accept unlimited checks from big donors and are… Continue reading

“Hillary Clinton Isn’t Ready to Disclose Who’s Funding Her Campaign”

May 6, 2015, 11:30 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

In a recent Slate piece, I suggested Hillary Clinton might be offering lip service on campaign finance: grandly supporting a constitutional amendment but not something that is more realistic which could actually help. Here’s a good indication from Mother Jones… Continue reading

Mike Huckabee Jokingly Breaks Federal Election Law

May 5, 2015, 7:33 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

WSJ: Mr. Huckabee said his campaign would be funded by “working people who will find out that $15 and $25 a month contributions can take us from Hope to higher ground,” he said, a reference to Hope, Ark., where… Continue reading

“Get ready for a lot more ‘dark money’ in politics”

May 4, 2015, 12:58 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Greg Sargent writes.

“How Super PACs Will Strengthen Democracy in 2016”

May 4, 2015, 7:57 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Josh Kaushaar in the National Journal.

“The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor”

May 3, 2015, 5:48 pmcampaigns, conflict of interest lawsRick Hasen

Must-read WaPo: Giustra, 57, a Vancouver, B.C.-based mogul whose eclectic business interests include founding Lionsgate Entertainment and investing in gold mines and an olive oil company, has come to symbolize a relatively new but substantial category of Clinton backers: foreign… Continue reading

Hillary Clinton Apparently Following Jeb Bush Super PAC Outsourcing Model

May 1, 2015, 2:40 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

WaPo: The shake-up is being driven by concerns among Clinton advisers that the group needs to be led by a close ally who has been embedded in the former secretary of state’s political world and will be able to… Continue reading