Category: FEC

Political law links for 12/5/12

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 5, 2012
Categories In A.M. Report, Arizona, California, FEC, LDA

SUPER PAC BURN RATE. BW. “Entrepreneurs who set up super-PACs wrote their own paychecks. The new groups sometimes moved as much money into the pockets of employees as they did into races. And some showed evidence of self-dealing.” VON SPAKOVSKY ON POTTER. Here. “What is it about the First Amendment and the right to engage […]

Good morning, here are today’s political law links, 12/4

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 4, 2012
Categories In A.M. Report, FEC, HLOGA, Kentucky, LDA, New Jersey, Vermont

NEW LEAGUE CHIEF. Roll Call. “[Monte] Ward is the newly elected president of the American League of Lobbyists, a group that’s existed since 1979 to lobby on behalf of lobbyists, because in Washington even the influencers need representation.” CFR AND POTATO CHIPS. Here. “While it may be true that Americans spend more on potato chips […]

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Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 3, 2012
Categories In A.M. Report, Executive Branch, FEC, House, LDA, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Senate, Tennessee, Wisconsin

OBAMA CAMPAIGN EMAIL STRATEGY. The reason for the informal subject line of this morning’s set of links will be clear after reading this Businessweek report. “One fascination in a presidential race mostly bereft of intrigue was the strange, incessant and weirdly overfamiliar e-mails emanating from the Obama campaign.” The article says that fundraising emails with […]