BIG BIRD LEGAL ISSUES. WSJ. “The folks at Sesame Street are asking the Obama campaign to pull down a TV ad released Tuesday that mocks Mitt Romney for vowing to yank the subsidy to PBS.” ETHICS AND ELECTIONS. Story here. “Even as the House ethics committee announced it would continue its informal investigation, Andrews denies […]
Month: October 2012
Good morning, here are Tuesday’s political law links (10/9/12)
OPINION IN HLF. Here. After an important discussion on standing, the opinion holds that three of five communications are electioneering communications. VH STATUS. InsidePoliticalLaw.com. L-PAC STRATEGY. Roll Call. “In this cycle’s costliest and most competitive House and Senate races, Members of Congress are deploying a little-noticed but influential weapon: their personal political action committees, typically […]
Friday’s political law links (10/5/12)
CONTRIBUTORS MENTIONED IN DEBATE. Transcript. ROMNEY: Mr. President, Mr. President, you’re entitled as the president to your own airplane and to your own house, but not to your own facts. All right, I’m not going to cut education funding. I don’t have any plan to cut education funding and — and grants that go to […]