Pending a Florida House and Senate vote, public financing could be on the ballot. Florida voters would then decide to kill or continue its public financing system for races for governor and other statewide offices.
Day: March 26, 2008
Migden Sued for $9 million
A California state senator faces a $9 million lawsuit involving alleged campaign finance irregularities. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: “For years, Sen. Migden has been deceiving the voters of California by filing inaccurate campaign statements,” Ross Johnson, chairman of the state Fair Political Practices Commission, said in a statement. “The sophisticated and pervasive pattern of […]
Foreign National Ban Bans More than Contributions
The foreign national ban is much more than a ban on “contributions” from foreign nationals: § 110.20 Prohibition on contributions, donations, expenditures, independent expenditures, and disbursements by foreign nationals (2 U.S.C. 441e, 36 U.S.C. 510).