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

Vogel.

Bloomberg BNA: The Federal Election Commission has dismissed—on a deadlocked party-line vote—charges that Manwin International, a foreign company producing online pornography, violated the law by bankrolling a campaign committee opposed to a Los Angeles ballot measure requiring the use… Continue reading

WaPo reports.

Fascinating interview with Fredreka Schouten.

Politico: Bush’s reluctance to declare himself a candidate or even that he’s exploring a run, which enables him to sidestep campaign finance rules, allows him to continue raising unlimited sums of money for the super PAC, which could have its… Continue reading

Ed Kilgore responds to my Slate piece, Jeb the Destroyer. And although Ed gives me credit for the “robots” metaphor, it came from, and I linked to, this article in The Fix by Philip Bump.

Vogel, ‘natch.

HuffPo reports.

Reuters reports.