Monthly Archives: September 2014
WaPo Review of Teachout’s “Corruption in America”
Here.
“How Wisconsin Prosecutors Became Campaign Partisans”
Richard Esenberg WSJ oped
George Will is Worried About “Low[] Quality’ Voters
Will on Los Angeles considering a voting lottery to boost turnout:
Regarding voting, more often means worse. If money is necessary to lure certain voters to the polls, those voters will lower the quality of the turnout: They will be… Continue reading
“Wisconsin Supreme Court asked to delay voter ID”
The Wisconsin State Journal reports. (h/t Robbin Stewart)
“District Court Urged to Reject Challenge to Disclosure Provisions Upheld by Supreme Court in Citizens United”
CLC.
“California’s FPPC Provides Example for Dysfunctional Fedral Agencies to Follow: Trevor Potter’s 40th Anniversary Keynote Address”
“First Battle in the Battle for the First Amendment”
“What’s Next for Campaign Finance Reform?”
“Tens of Thousands of WI Students Face New Voting Hurdles”
“Lying in Campaigns and the Judicial Response”
We Get Letters
Via email (all spelling and grammar per the original):
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Kobach (Apparently) Caves
TPM reports. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kansas-senate-race-ballots
Circumventing Public Financing: The Canadian Experience
In reading Michael Ignatieff’s recent political autobiography, Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics, about his six-year foray into electoral politics, I came across an important account of the breakdown of Canada’s system of publicly-financed elections, in ways that… Continue reading