Category: FEC

FEC Chairman Profile

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date October 29, 2008
Categories In FEC

The WSJ profiles the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission today.

Smith Q&A Transcript

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date October 28, 2008
Categories In FEC

The transcript of Brad Smith’s Q&A at WashingtonPost.com is online here. … Reston, Va.: McCain keeps saying that Obama is trying to buy the election. Isn’t it more like the citizens are? They’re the ones contributing the money. Bradley A. Smith: Right on! …

Campaign Finance Reform in the “Age of Obama”

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date October 27, 2008
Categories In FEC

Bradley A. Smith penned an interesting piece for The Post assessing the impact of Obama’s decision to run a privately-financed campaign. Obama’s epic fundraising should put to rest all the shibboleths about campaign finance reform — that it is needed to prevent corruption, that it equalizes the playing field, or that tax subsidies are needed […]