Monthly Archives: August 2015
“State Contractors Aid Governors’ Campaigns”
WSJ:
Campaigns and super PACs supporting four Republican governors running for president raised at least $2.5 million in legal donations from companies with state contracts or taxpayer subsidies, illustrating potential conflicts of interest that may emerge when candidates exit the… Continue reading
“Bernie Sanders’s Success in Attracting Small Donors Tests Importance of ‘Super PACs’”
NYT (which still puts “Super PACs” in quotes):
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“DC Circuit Spurns GOP Challenge to SEC Pay-to-Play Rule”
Brian Svoboda:
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today left standing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s “pay-to-play” rule, which bars investment advisers from providing paid services to state and local governments when making… Continue reading
Charles Koch “Flabbergasted” by Obama Criticism, Wants to Educate Him About “Rent Seeking”
Mike Allen:
Charles Koch hit back at criticism of “the Koch brothers” during President Barack Obama’s energy speech in Las Vegas earlier this week, saying he was “flabbergasted” by the attack and charging that Obama made the dig as… Continue reading
“City clerks criticize Sacramento County elections office”
SacBee:
The Sacramento County elections office published sample ballot booklets last year with a number of errors: Omitted were a statement from a Sacramento City Council candidate and a list of endorsed candidates from the Democratic Party. Included was… Continue reading
“Critics, watchdogs question stealth Cuba lobbying campaign”
“Experts Can’t Agree On Whether Voting-Booth Selfies Will Destroy Democracy”
“If you want to understand Donald Trump, look to the success of the European far-right”
Matt Yglesias:
In a 2014 paper, law professor David Schleicher observed that institutional differences between the US and Europe can end up obscuring underlying similarities in the development of party politics.
Some countries have proportional electoral systems that are… Continue reading
“Is Ind. law explicitly banning taking photographs in voting booth unconstitutional?”
Jeffrey Rosen NYT Book Review of Berman Voting Rights Book
It concludes with a note on race and party:
In 2014, the first election since 1965 without the preclearance protections of the Voting Rights Act, voters in 14 states faced new voting restrictions adopted by mostly Republican legislatures, including a… Continue reading
“Larry Lessig Says He’d Give Joe Biden A Third Term as VP”
“Would more lobbying improve America”
“4 State Parties Sign Fund-Raising Pacts With Clinton Campaign”
NYT:
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign has received commitments from four Democratic state parties, including in the crucial proving ground of New Hampshire, to enter joint fund-raising agreements with the campaign just as the nomination battle is beginning.
The four… Continue reading