“The Jeb Bush Hatchet Man Who Might Accidentally Elect Donald Trump”
Jeb Bush Super PAC fundraising may matter, but not in the way you might think.
Category Archives: campaigns
Talk of Clinton Indictment Fueling Legal (But Mostly Political) Questions
Mike Allen’s Playbook leads with Peter Baker’s comments on CNN: re Hillary emails: “Her problem at this point is NOT the Republicans. Her problem is the FBI and the Obama Justice Department. And what Democrats are quietly, absolutely petrified about… Continue reading
“The New Anti-Sanders Super PAC Is Funded By Anti-Clinton Donors”
Some three-dimensional chess from Joe Ricketts:
About a week ago, a super PAC bankrolled by a wealthy conservative donorannounced that it would run an ad attacking Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for being too far along the ideological spectrum.
The… Continue reading
“The Koch Network Has Already Spent $400 Million In Run-Up To 2016”
Tarini Parti reports for Buzzfeed from the Koch meeting in CA.
Koch’s comments at a resort in the California desert were part of his opening remarks for the annual winter meeting of the network, which intends to spend $889 million… Continue reading
“Sanders Campaign Introduces Text-to-Donate App”
“Politics and Policy Series – The New Wild West: Money and the 2016 US Presidential Election”
This looks good at the New School in NY:
Witness and question a highly influential panel of campaign operatives as they discuss the new Wild West world of campaign finance:
– Zach Allen, Democratic fundraising consultant
– Raj Goyle, Member,… Continue reading
“Hot First Amendment Topics: Campaign Finance and the 2016 Election”
This looks like a great lineup for a program by the ABA Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice:
We will explore a number of hot topics in the constantly evolving world of federal campaign finance, including the role of… Continue reading
“Koch brothers convene donor retreat as dark money spending set to soar”
Peter Stone reports for The Guardian.
Mike Stern: Electoral Vote Counting in Congress
Below is an important guest post from Mike Stern, who served as senior counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, deputy staff director for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, and special counsel to the House Intelligence committee,… Continue reading
“Nebraska secretary of state says ballot selfies foster fraud”
“Texas consultant to Rand Paul loses Pa. election law challenge”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
A federal judge has denied a temporary restraining order to a Texas man challenging Pennsylvania election law and seeking to circulate petitions for Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul.
Texas resident Trent Pool, and his firm Benezet Consulting,… Continue reading
“Bloomberg run could boost Trump’s bid for White House: poll”
“Judicial Campaign Finance: Fresh Thinking in the Ninth Circuit”
Bauer‘s got it right:
On the question of judicial candidates endorsing or campaigning with other nonjudicial candidates, Judge Berzon’s takes the problem to be one independent branch becoming beholden to or politically entangled with others, not corrupt relationships between… Continue reading