The Post covers Obama’s fundraising and issues associated with raising contributions over the internet. Sen. Barack Obama’s record-breaking $150 million fundraising performance in September has for the first time prompted questions about whether presidential candidates should be permitted to collect huge sums of money through faceless credit card transactions over the Internet. The FEC issued […]
Author: Eric Brown
It’s Raining FEC Chairmen
Today at 2 p.m. Bradley A. Smith will be hosting an online Q&A here. The current Chairman of the FEC was on C-SPAN’s Newsmakers yesterday. Scott Thomas was quoted in this Post report on internet fundraising.
The Alternate
Roll Call reports that an alternate juror has been added to the jury in the Stevens trial. In an unusual Sunday hearing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that a juror who has been absent from the courthouse since Friday to attend her father’s funeral in California […]