Month: February 2020

CA: CITY REFORM. MCW. “Marina’s is indeed a flawed ordinance, capping individual donations at $200 but allowing candidates to self-fund with no limit – something O’Connell, a retired attorney, says was a problem because of free speech protections.” ME: NO SLUSH. PH. “No candidate or elected official should be profiting off our political system, specifically […]

JET QUESTION. PP. “Adav Noti of the Campaign Legal Center said political nonprofits are operating in a grey area because of the FEC’s failure to outline rules for what sort of contact they are permitted to have with a candidate. ‘To any rational person that looks at this, of course it’s a campaign event. But […]

LAW TILT. WSJ. “Campaign-Finance Laws Created Candidate Bloomberg; They don’t level the field; they tilt it to the advantage of billionaires, especially if they own media firms.” HACKING DEMOCRACY. FED. “Our problem is the campaign finance law. Mike and Bernie prove it. And it’s predominantly Democrats who are to blame.” NOTHING AT THE FEC. GE. […]