The Obama campaign has reacted to a recent American Issues Project advertisement. The project is “a knowing and willful attempt to violate the strictures of federal election law,” Obama general counsel Bob Bauer wrote to Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Keeney last week in a letter provided to Politico. Bauer argued that by advocating Obama’s […]
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American Issues Project
American Issues Project is in the news for an ad appearing online, including here. The latest electioneering communications reports filed with the FEC should appear here. A Form 5 appears here.
Independent Expenditures: Large Loophole?
The Republican American reports on independent expenditures. Advocates of campaign finance reform are worried that these independent expenditures are harbingers for the general elections. The fear is that lobbyists, state contractors and interest groups are going to channel boatloads of money into statehouse campaigns through independent expenditures. The State Election Enforcement Commission is tracking this […]