“Is Hillary’s New Campaign Finance Reform Plan the Real Deal?”
Justin Miller reports for TAP.
Category Archives: campaigns
“Did this shady pro-Bernie Sanders super PAC just dupe James Bond?”
It’s the wild west out there.
‘New Hampshire Primary Source: Kasich backers say he filmed super PAC ads before becoming a candidate”
WMUR:
But proving that there is illegal coordination is tough. A plethora of FEC rules focus on three “prongs,” regarding payment, content and conduct.
Pro-candidate super PAC ads look very much like ads by the candidates’ campaign committees themselves.… Continue reading
“For Biden, calendar makes his 2016 decision tough to delay”
AP:
The process to get on the ballot varies greatly from state to state, creating a maze of requirements that campaigns must meet: petitions to be collected, signatures to be counted and notifications made to political parties, elections boards… Continue reading
“LLC loophole penalty could hinder NY donors”
Times Union:
A settlement struck in a lawsuit targeting the so-called “LLC loophole” in New York election law yielded a $10,000 penalty and could pave the way to future state cases challenging limited liability company donations.
Because this one… Continue reading
NYT Room for Debate Considers Third Party Candidates
“Sheldon Adelson Is Ready to Buy the Presidency. He just hasn’t decided which Republican candidate to back. Care to make a pitch?”
Just How Democratic is California? Republican Party Chair Leaves Out His Party in Announcing Senate Bid
Former chair of Republican Party Duf Sundheim announces his bid without mentioning he’s a Republican or his chairmanship of the CA Republican party. The closest he comes in an emailed press release is this:
In 2012, Sundheim reached across… Continue reading
“Conan O’Brien Tries to Give Lincoln Chafee a Lift in the Polls”
NYT:
Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island governor, has failed to garner a single supporter in the last four national polls, which have queried a total of 1,475 Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters.
The latest poll came after Mr. Chafee got… Continue reading
“Hillary Clinton’s secret weapon in campaign finance reform: Shame”
LAT:
Hillary Rodham Clinton knows her plan to stop big businesses from secretly funneling tranches of cash into politics may not fly with the Supreme Court and Congress, so she has a backup plan: publicly shame the companies.
Clinton… Continue reading
“Clinton’s campaign finance proposal & the long road to reform”
@JeffreyToobin, @Maddow, Dan Rather in Hillary Clinton Video Talking Citizens United
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Talking of overturning Citizens United may be good policy, but it also appears to be good politics, especially as Hillary Clinton faces pressure from the left on the issue from Bernie Sanders and now Larry Lessig.
“Clinton proposes new caps on political donations”
WaPo:
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton is proposing a federal program to match small political campaign donations as a way to dilute the influence of megadonors and unregulated outside money.
Clinton plans to release details of the plan… Continue reading
@Lessig’s Running, Raised His Million
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9 Things to Know About Lawrence Lessig
And from last week, my ELB Podcast interview with Lessig, ELB Podcast Episode 3: Larry Lessig: Bold Campaign Reformer or Don Quixote?