WHO’S READY? Politico. “A pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC named several prominent Democratic donors on Friday in its push to build support for the former secretary of state to run for president in 2016.”
C-4’S AND THE SUPERBOWL. Fox News. President Obama discussed the topic with Bill O’Reilly during the pre-game interview.
LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ESTABLISHED. Politico. “Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.) has created a special fund to pay his legal bills from an ongoing Justice Department criminal probe into his dealings with a Florida doctor and financial supporter.”
FUNDRAISING LANDSCAPE. Politico. “The Democratic Party has created a well-oiled fundraising machine.”
D’SOUZA SPEAKS. Here. “His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, has contended that D’Souza’s actions were ‘at worst,’ an act of misguided friendship toward the candidate.”
CU BOOMERANG. WP. “Now, party leaders struggling to unify the warring wings in time to retake the Senate this year and lay a foundation for the 2016 presidential race are instead contending with a well-financed insurgency.”
D’S CAPITALIZE ON CU. Mother Jones. “The story of the Democratic Party’s reversal on Citizens United is best told through the story of one group in particular: Priorities USA Action, the flagship Obama super-PAC during the 2012 presidential campaign.”
KOCHS HIT REID. The Hill. “The Koch brothers fired back at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Thursday evening after he said the powerful conservative financiers were trying to ‘buy the country.'”
HLOGA POST-EMPLOYMENT RULES. NY Times. “Some aides resist pay raises, to keep their salaries just below the cutoff that would prompt lobbying restrictions. More highly paid House aides, simply because their paycheck came from an individual lawmaker or leadership office rather than a committee they worked closely with, are immediately allowed to lobby former committee colleagues. This maneuver would be prohibited in the Senate, where senior aides cannot contact anyone in the Senate for a year.”
SUIT FILED. WT. “The suit grows out of a 2010 FEC complaint filed by Public Citizen against Crossroads for what critics said was a failure to register as a political committee and disclose its donors, despite spending massive amounts on political advertising in the 2010 election cycle.”
MT: FOCUS ON COMMISSION. Billings Gazette. “As Montana’s new political practices commissioner, attorney Jonathan Motl is cranking out decisions at a red-hot pace and taking on what he sees as illegal campaign activity by ‘dark money’ groups and their favored candidates.”
VA: LEGAL BILLS DISCLOSED. WP. “New documents released by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office show that taxpayer-funded attorneys were deeply involved in responding to the federal investigation of former governor Robert F. McDonnell, going back to at least early June.”
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