Category: LDA

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 […]

Wed., Nov. 28, 2012 political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date November 28, 2012
Categories In A.M. Report, House, LDA, Missouri

ABRAMS ON CU. The Times. “The law at issue in Citizens United permitted The Times to endorse candidates while making it a felony for nonmedia corporations to do so. It made it a crime for a union to distribute your endorsement of President Obama for re-election to its members. It should come as no surprise […]