Improving public financing is one proposal to arise out of the 2008 presidential election. The mountain of money raised by this year’s political candidates has spurred campaign-finance watchdogs to agree on a set of principles and start lobbying to improve the public financing of presidential elections. In particular, a group of seven nonpartisan organizations wants […]
Month: November 2008
Transitions
A new administration must, before inauguration, pay attention to every legal detail regarding staffing the transition, the funding and logistics of the candidate’s move to Washington, if necessary, the inauguration, and, of course, merely settling in to run the federal government and implement policies. But wait… there’s a government website. According to this report, the […]
Political Activity Law Update
Once again, thanks for reading. As the graphic shows (pageloads since early 2008) and you might expect, October and November have been busy months at the site. I appreciate all of the comments on the site and please stay tuned for more new content. I’ve added an option to read the website through email (feedburner […]