The WSJ comments on what it calls the $639 million loophole. If the election showed anything, it’s that the answer isn’t layering more regulations and limits on top of the ones that have already failed. The better road is starting to strip some of them away — a task that will ultimately fall to the […]
Author: Eric Brown
SCA, GOP in AZ
This article reports that there’s an investigation into whether an Arizona state political party accepted impermissible contributions. The state attorney general is investigating allegations that the Arizona Republican Party broke campaign finance laws by failing to identify who provided $105,000 in contributions after the secretary of state determined there was reasonable cause to believe a […]
Obama and McCain and Public Financing
Public financing was not a topic of recent conversation between Obama and McCain, according to this report. President-elect Barack Obama and vanquished rival John McCain talked Monday about reforming parts of the political process, but they skipped a good governance issue of mutual interest over which they sparred bitterly during their campaign: fixing the public […]