Monthly Archives: April 2015
Clinton’s Campaign Finance Push as a Way to Inoculate Herself from Charges Related to Her Lack of Transparency?
John Dickerson:
This campaign finance pillar of the Clinton campaign appears to be weakened already, but some campaign finance advocates were skeptical that Clinton was ever going to have a big fight over campaign finance reform as she pledged,… Continue reading
“Intense Lobbying Failed to Assure Comcast’s Deal”
NYT:
Despite the distribution of $5.9 million in campaign contributions by the two companies during the 2014 election cycle, and the expenditure of an extraordinary $25 million on lobbying last year, no more than a handful of lawmakers signed… Continue reading
“Hillary Clinton’s cheapskate campaign”
“A Better Way to Rein in Lobbying”
“How We Will Save Our Democracy (and How We Won’t)”
Matthew Saks:
Last week, the election law expert Rick Hasen wrote a piece in Slate criticizing Hillary Clinton for coming out in support of a constitutional amendment to get big money out of politics. He argued that a constitutional… Continue reading
“Right-wing candidate’s nude campaign poster skirts election law”
Japan Times:
Campaigning for Sunday’s second wave of quadrennial unified local elections has highlighted a legal loophole that allows candidates to go to extremes — including nudity — to gain votes.
In contrast with the ubiquitous portrait shots preferred… Continue reading
“Feds charge ex-congressional chief of staff with secretly funding 2010 ringer candidate”
Miami Herald:
Federal prosecutors on Friday accused former Miami Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia’s ex-chief of staff of secretly financing a ringer tea-party candidate in 2010 to draw votes away from a Republican rival — an illegal scheme that inspired… Continue reading
“New Kinloch mayor blocked by police from entering city hall”
Holy cow:
Our Fox 2 cameras were the only ones there as the newly-elected Kinloch mayor was greeted by police for her first day on the job.
Betty McCray was not only prevented from entering city hall, she was… Continue reading