Today’s Post, in “Senators Diverting Campaign Funds to Kin,” notes that [u]nder long-standing congressional ethics rules, corporations, unions and other large organizations cannot directly pay senators stipends. But their contributions to senators’ election campaigns can be paid without limit to the children, spouses, in-laws and other relatives of the lawmakers, in a practice that has […]
Author: Eric Brown
State Issues: Illinois
The Beacon News reports a number of Illinois candidates and committees owe fines. Election officials have little leverage in collecting the fines except to kick candidates off the ballot — moot between elections or if the candidate loses. Officials have asked the state attorney general’s office for an opinion on how it might go about […]
State Law: North Dakota
North Dakota’s 2007-2009 Campaign Finance and Disclosure Requirements addresses “Organizations Known as 527 Organizations.”