TOMORROW AT THE FEC.  The agenda for tomorrow’s Federal Election Commission is online here.

POLITICAL LAW BRIEFING UPDATES.  Venable’s political law site has a number of interesting updates available here.

“DARK MONEY” EXECUTIVE ORDER PUSH.   HuffPo.  “But the first step, one that requires agreement only from the president, is an executive order on contractor disclosure. Today more than 50 organizations called on the president to take action.”

NC: ETHICS ALLEGATIONS.   WSOC. “The latest allegations involve three trips McCrory took in 2013 to New Orleans in May, Charleston, South Carolina, in September, and Scottsdale, Arizona, in November.”

RI:  ROUTINE AUDITS SOUGHT.   WPRO. “A good government group is calling for changes to the state’s campaign finance system and Ethics Commission in the wake of the Gordon Fox case.”

JAPAN:  TAINTED BY SCANDAL.   Bloomberg. “Just a week after the resignation of his farm minister, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has become the latest Japanese politician to be tainted by allegations of financial impropriety.”

HAVE A GOOD DAY.