Category: Illinois

Mon. political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 7, 2014
Categories In A.M. Report, FEC, House, Illinois, West Virginia, Wisconsin

REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. House Ethics. “In light of feedback we have received from our fellow Members and after further consideration, we have determined that the Committee will return to its previous guidance regarding disclosure of privately sponsored travel on financial disclosure reports, effective immediately.” LESSIG PAC GOAL. TechCrunch. “Lawrence Lessig’s Mayday.us just raised a lot […]

Political law links and have a great 4th

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 3, 2014
Categories In A.M. Report, FEC, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Vermont, Virginia

COMMUNICATIONS AND COORDINATION. Roll Call. “Party campaign committees and outside groups aren’t allowed to coordinate, but as they outline their fall television ad strategies, interested groups are doing a very public dance to ensure they don’t step on each others’ toes and waste money duplicating efforts.” ANSWERS SOUGHT. Roll Call. “The federal agency regulating and […]

Tues. political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date June 24, 2014
Categories In A.M. Report, FEC, Illinois, IRS, Rule G-37, Rule G-42, Wisconsin

SEC SETTLES. WSJ. “The SEC’s so-called pay-to-play rule prohibits investment advisers from providing paid advisory services to pension funds within two years of a political contribution to an official with power to influence the funds.” The SEC release is here. This is huge news and is sure to generate a flood of urgent memos on […]