“Trump Campaign Could Use New Donations to Pay Donald Trump $36M for Loan”
Ari Melber for NBC News.
Category Archives: campaigns
“State Senate suspends rule barring political fundraising during budget season”
LAT:
The state Senate on Thursday voted to rescind a rule prohibiting campaign fundraising during the budget season after Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) said it is giving an unfair advantage to moneyed special interests opposing… Continue reading
“News media give free ride to anti-Donald Trump video”
CPI:
Eerie sounds. Thudding piano notes. Rapid-fire clips of Donald Trumpmaking disparaging remarks about women.
This minute-long takedown looks like apolitical ad. It sounds like a political ad. But according to the pro-Hillary Clintonsuper PAC… Continue reading
“Representativeness and Motivations of the Contemporary Donorate: Results from Merged Survey and Administrative Records”
Seth Hill and Gregory Huber have written this article for Political Behavior. Here is the abstract:
Only a small portion of Americans make campaign donations, yet because ambitious politicians need these resources, this group may be particularly important for shaping… Continue reading
“Trump’s candidacy sparking ‘a surge’ in citizenship, voter applications”
WaPo:
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is spurring a record number of citizenship applications and increases in voter registration among Latinos upset by the candidate’s rhetoric and fearful of his plans to crack down on immigration.
Activists, lawmakers and political… Continue reading
Trump Rules Out Accepting Public Financing for General Election Campaign
“Super PAC coffers swell with more than $700 million”
Forces That Put Justice Benjamin on W Va Supreme Court (Think Caperton) Turn Around and Oust Him
Read Pema Levy. Then see these results.
“How Congress members opened door to bigger checks for their parties”
McClatchy:
But hold on. If you’re a donor, don’t put away your checkbook just yet.
The Democratic and Republican national committees each have separate Senate and House campaign committees to help elect members of Congress. Each has a general… Continue reading
“Donald Trump, in Switch, Turns to Republican Party for Fund-Raising Help”
NYT:
Donald J. Trump took steps to appropriate much of the Republican National Committee’s financial and political infrastructure for his presidential campaign on Monday, amid signs that he and the party would lag dangerously behind the Democrats in… Continue reading
“FEC Seeks to Derail Soft-Money Challenge”
Bloomberg BNA:
The Federal Election Commission is seeking to derail a challenge to limits on “soft-money” contributions to political parties before the case is put on a fast track to the Supreme Court (Republican Party of La. v. Federal … Continue reading
“Trump aides huddle with RNC to plot big-money strategy”
Politico:
Donald Trump’s campaign is hashing out the details of an agreement with Republican Party leaders that could allow the presumptive GOP presidential nominee to raise six-figure checks for his presidential campaign, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the… Continue reading
“Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News”
Gizmodo:
Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court’s Next Big Fight Over Money in Politics: Will the justices gut the rest of McCain-Feingold — and make it easier for wealthy donors to influence elections?”
I have written this piece for The Atlantic. It begins:
At some point next year, the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to face a major First Amendment question: whether to overturn what remains of the 2002 McCain-Feingold Act. This measure… Continue reading