NCSL’s “Legislative Action Bulletin” Now Available
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Monthly Archives: October 2011
“Haggerty Guilty of Grand Larceny and Money Laundering”
NYT: “John F. Haggerty, a Republican political consultant accused of stealing $1.1 million from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg during Mr. Bloomberg’s 2009 re-election campaign, was found guilty of second-degree grand larceny and money laundering by a jury in Manhattan… Continue reading
“A Fraudulent Case; The ugly parallels between Jim Crow and modern vote-suppression laws.”
Risa Goluboff and Dahlia Lithwick have written this article in Slate.
Question of the Day
If the EAC’s data on military voting is so important (it is), why would Republicans want to gut the agency?
“What if a multimillion-dollar Super PAC were organized and operated by people so close to the candidate that no communication was necessary?”
Ross Ramsey explores the Super-PAC phenomenon.
“Without ‘Super PAC’ Numbers, Campaign Filings Present an Incomplete Picture”
Nick Confessore has written this important “Political Memo” for the NY Times.
“Secret Cash Baiting Officials Leaves No Trace in U.S. Attack Ads”
Bloomberg reports.
“Obama Campaign General Counsel Criticizes ‘Anti-Reform’ Movement in Election Politics”
UVa report: “Robert Bauer ’76, general counsel to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign and a former White House counsel, said Monday that an anti-reform movement has been dismantling rules that aim to protect confidence and integrity in government.”
Eversole Responds on Discrepancy in Military Voter Turnout Data, Questions FVAP data.
Following up on this post, I received the following response via email from Eric Eversole, who is the Executive Director of the Military Voter Protection Project and Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor at Chapman University. It raises questions about the… Continue reading
“Prop. 8 backers lose CA campaign disclosure case”
AP reports that the judge, ruling from the bench, granted summary judgment for the state and will issue a written opinion later. This is in line with what I expected, and I’ll be writing more on the disclosure/harassment issue very… Continue reading
“FEC Deadlock on SEIU Audit Highlights Questions on Reporting Campaign Spending”
BNA: Democrats on the Commission saw a violation but Republicans did not.
Ideology trumps party at the FEC, and deadlocks continue.
New Canadian Court Decision on Spending Limits
Here.
“Presidential Nominating Process: Current Issues”
A new CRS report.
“CCP Disputes Economic Risks of Engaging in Political Speech”
This post begins: “Today, CCP is releasing materials documenting the effort of some groups to engage in corporate democracy, a managed and directed attempt to convince corporations of the “economic risk” of engaging in political speech. The CCP Report … Continue reading