“New California Secretary of State Alex Padilla Plans Tech Overhaul”
Techwire has this interview.
Monthly Archives: December 2014
“Goodman Resurrects Long-Dormant Plan To Limit Enforcement Actions of FEC Staff”
Bloomberg BNA reports ($): “Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee Goodman apparently is endorsing a controversial proposed FEC enforcement manual, which would sharply circumscribe the authority of staffers in the agency’s Office of General Counsel to investigate alleged campaign finance violations… Continue reading
“Stephen Harper Does U-turn on Election Law Gagging Advocacy Groups”
News from Canada on outside spending restrictions.
Malbin Calls for “Third Approach” to Party Coordination
See this press release with Michael Malbin’s remarks at COGEL today.
“Truce in ‘Nuclear’ Filibuster War May Be Senate GOP’s Best Option”
“McConnell Plots a Functional, Bipartisan Senate”
CQ Roll Call interviews the incoming Senate Majority Leader. Among the items of interest to students of the legislative process:
McConnell wasn’t saying he would never use procedural tools, such as the Rule 14 process, to bypass committees or filling… Continue reading
“Obama Fundraising Goal: $225,000-Per-Day for Presidential Library”
Bloomberg Politics reports:
A reliance on private money to build the libraries and the lack of disclosure has, over the years, troubled advocates for greater government transparency. “This is completely unregulated,” [University of Louisville Professor Benjamin] Hufbauer said. “They… Continue reading
“Democrats Spent Big in Secret Effort to Elect Kansas Independent Greg Orman”
From Bloomberg Politics, on recent disclosures regarding Super PAC and nonprofit spending in last month’s U.S. Senate elections.
“Their Senate, Their Rules: GOP May Allow Blocking Of Nominees Again”
NPR on GOP Senators’ deliberations over whether to undo the “nuclear option” for nominations.
“Obama, Congress Brace For Veto Showdowns”
AP has this story on the likely prospect of more vetoes in the last two years of the Obama presidency.
A Liberal Ballot-Initiative Push in 2016?
Politico reports: “Groups supporting marijuana legalization, background checks on firearms and raising the minimum wage told POLITICO to expect a larger slate of ballot propositions in 2016 than during the past several election cycles.
“The Kochs Eclipse the RNC: Meet the Guys Behind the Right’s Best Data Shop”
From Politico:
The Koch brothers and their allies are pumping tens of millions of dollars into a data company that’s developing detailed, state-of-the-art profiles of 250 million Americans, giving the brothers’ political operation all the earmarks of a national… Continue reading
“Investigation Sought on Election Judge Confusion over Robocalls”
Report from Chicago:
Outraged officials from Mayor Rahm Emanuel on down are demanding a thorough investigation into the election day robocalls that may have kept close to 2,000 election judges away from the polls, mostly on the South and… Continue reading
“Assessing the Impact of Voter Suppression Laws in the 2014 Midterms”
Ben Jealous and Ryan Haygood have this op-ed in the Root regarding this report from the Center for American Progress, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc., and the Southern Elections Foundation. See also this story discussing the report’s… Continue reading