Category: Wyoming

Political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 4, 2014
Categories In A.M. Report, FEC, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, New York City, Wyoming

THE CFR-CROMNIBUS. BillMoyers.com. “Bloomberg BNA reports that ‘for now,’ Sen. Mitch McConnell has backed away from the strategy Paul Blumenthal describes below. But campaign reformers remain ;wary that the incoming Senate majority leader would renew efforts to roll back limits on campaign money when Republicans take over the Senate following the current, lame-duck session.’” ONE […]

7.28 political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 28, 2014
Categories In A.M. Report, Alaska, Florida, House, Virginia, Wyoming

SUNLIGHT AND SUPER PAC. ABC. “Now, as Obama enthusiastically raises money for Democratic super PACs, he’s embracing some of the same secretive elements of that system, drawing charges of hypocrisy from good-governance advocates who say the public deserves to know what Obama’s saying and to whom he’s saying it when donors pay for a few […]

Mon. 5-12-14 political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 12, 2014
Categories In A.M. Report, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wyoming

BYZANTINE CAMPAIGN FINANCE. RC (Lisa Gilbert). “In the case of this hearing on transparency in money in politics, there couldn’t be a more apt descriptor for our out-of-date, patchwork system of required disclosures of election spending, as recent U.S. Supreme Court cases have riddled the system with even more holes, making it still harder for […]