Word from Colin Delany that the California Democratic Party has taken the demon sheep theme to new levels of… well, I’ll leave that for you to decide.
Category: California
Campaign finance law enforcement in California examined
The LA Times looks at the enforcement practices of the California Fair Political Practices Commission here. In its 2009 annual report, the state Fair Political Practices Commission reveals that it closed 721 cases with findings that ethics rules were violated — more than double the year before. But only one in six violators was fined […]
Long Beach Chamber of Commerce case in Ninth Circuit reverses lower court on ban
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Long Beach Chamber of Commerce was announced yesterday and the opinion is online here. Relying heavily on EMILY’s List, the opinion holds that the city had not advanced a governmental interest to support the campaign finance law’s application to the Chamber PACs. The court reversed the […]