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Good morning, here are Monday’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 6, 2014
Categories In A.M. Report, California, Delaware, Iowa, LDA, Maryland, Mass., Michigan, Nevada, New York City, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Virginia, Wisconsin

CHARITABLE MATCH RULES. Bloomberg. “U.S. companies, forbidden to give money directly to political action committees, are taking advantage of controversial federal rules allowing them to ask employees to do it for them in exchange for matching charitable donations.” READY FOR 16? Time. ”Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential Campaign has rented its email list to Ready for […]

Thurs. political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 19, 2013
Categories In A.M. Report, Colorado, FEC, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico

CILLIZZA ON LEVINTHAL REPORT. WP. “Average people — heck, average political junkies — have either never heard of the FEC, don’t really know what it does or both. But, remember this is the rule-making and rule-enforcing entity for all federal money in politics.” CO: RULING IN CASE. CSindy.com. “The Colorado Court of Appeals has reaffirmed […]

Good morning, here are Monday’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 16, 2013
Categories In A.M. Report, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York City, Vermont, Virginia

HEDGE FUNDERS GET ACTIVE. Forbes. “With the formation of the Super PAC, [Louis] Bacon joins a growing rank of hedge funders who have decided to throw their financial weight into politics. This year Tom Steyer, founder of Farallon Capital Management, started his pro-environment Super PAC, NextGen Committee, which has taken on the Keystone XL pipeline, […]