Category Archives: campaigns
Can Super PAC Which Avoids Express Advocacy Coordinate with Presidential Campaign?
NYT:
Correct the Record, a group started by David Brock, a staunch ally of Hillary Rodham Clinton, is recreating itself as a stand-alone “super PAC” that has the ability to coordinate with her campaign….
The new version of Correct the… Continue reading
“Montana: Stanford, Dartmouth mailers broke campaign laws”
“The promise of super PACs outweigh the perils for Hillary Clinton”
Jeb Bush Not Only Outsourcing to SuperPAC-Also Using Secret Donor 501c4
WaPo:
A nonprofit group allied with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is playing a more expansive role in his current political operation than previously known, housing several top policy advisers expected to join his eventual campaign, according to people… Continue reading
“Democrats Eased Way for GOP Mega-Donors”
Jeanne Cummings:
More than half of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans in December to increase fundraising limits for the political parties. The change was tucked in the 1,599th page of a 1,603-page budget deal. Given how aggressively Republicans are… Continue reading
Chutzpah Dep’t: Donors Get Special Call-in Number to Tx. Lt. Gov.
“Chief Justice Pat Roggensack says author of New Yorker article that criticizes Supreme Court ‘didn’t know his facts'”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Wisconsin’s new Supreme Court chief justice has responded to an article in the New Yorker that called the court “a disgraceful mess” by saying the writer “didn’t have his facts straight.”
The article, posted online Monday, said… Continue reading
“New Study: Longer Presidential Campaigns Correlated With Contribution Limits”
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”
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.