Category: California

Express advocacy, California style

By phone I listened with interest to the California Fair Political Practices Commission’s interested persons discussion about express advocacy.  (I noted the event here.)  As the FPPC explained in a press release, the topic was express advocacy “in the wake of Citizens United.”  In The Governor Gray Davis Committee v. American Taxpayer Alliance a state […]

Express advocacy: discuss

The San Francisco Chronicle notes today’s California Fair Political Practices Commission discussion of express advocacy. A hearing by staff of the Fair Political Practices Commission on a campaign finance disclosure law known as “express advocacy” is at 10 a.m. today in Sacramento at 428 J St., 8th floor hearing room. Can’t make it to Sacramento? […]