Is it fair to say that there is a nationwide trend toward pay to play restrictions? The Brennan Center for Justice cites the Rezko prosecution as a data point in favor of additional pay to play rules: Reasonable contribution limits and tailored pay-to-play regulations that keep lobbyists and/or state contractors from giving large sums to state […]
Category: State Issues
Yard Sign Sanity
Wheeling News-Register offers some reasonable advice for campaign yard signs along the highway: Campaign signs are an important part of any political season. The rights of candidates and their supporters to place them are protected to an extent, as they should be, by the First Amendment.But there are limits. Many municipalities have restrictions on them, […]
Kentucky Reform Moves Ahead
A siginificant campaign finance reform bill is moving ahead in Kentucky (SB 8). Among a large number of changes and additions, the bill includes a provision regarding “frivolous complaints”: The registry is authorized to impose a civil penalty for the filing of a frivolous complaint, and the filing of a frivolous complaint shall be a violation […]