Month: February 2008

State Law: North Dakota

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 21, 2008
Categories In North Dakota, State Issues

North Dakota’s 2007-2009 Campaign Finance and Disclosure Requirements addresses “Organizations Known as 527 Organizations.”

Lobbyist-Bundled Contributions

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 20, 2008
Categories In HLOGA
1 Comment on Lobbyist-Bundled Contributions

The latest document regarding the disclosure of certain information about lobbyist-bundled contributions is the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. In this November 2007 document the Commission wrote: The Commission expects that these proposed rules will become final in early 2008, and that the new disclosure requirements will apply to reports filed three months later. Thus, the first […]

Public Service Announcements

The FEC and a number of states have weighed-in on public service announcements featuring officeholders/candidates. Minnesota’s Campaign Finance and and Public Disclosure Board opines in its advisory opinion 394. This seems to be a familiar sentiment: The Board recognizes that any positive public exposure may have some effect on an individual’s chance of being elected. […]