LEAHY 1A PUSH. Brattleboro Reformer. “U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., ushered a proposal out of committee this week that would amend the U.S. Constitution and allow for limits on campaign contributions. The Judiciary Committee, of which Leahy is chair, passed the proposal, 10-8.”
THE POINT OF REFORM. WFB. “The campaign finance reform efforts of a massive network of liberal and Democratic groups are explicitly designed to limit conservatives’ ability to oppose key parts of the left’s agenda, according to the head of the group coordinating those efforts.”
SUPER PAC TARGET. RC. “Senate Majority PAC launched a TV ad Saturday aimed at the Republican vying for Michigan’s open Senate seat.”
SUPER PAC DISCLOSURE. Yahoo. “Nearly all of the money raised by the Citizens for a Working America PAC, a super PAC that’s spent more than $2 million on ads boosting businessman David Perdue in Georgia’s contentious Republican U.S. Senate primary, has come from two ‘social welfare’ nonprofits connected to an Ohio lobbyist, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of campaign finance records.”
RIVERA ENDS BID. Sunshine State News. “Former U.S. Rep. David Rivera, R-Fla., announced on Friday that, with congressional redistricting up in the air, he was ending his bid for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia, D-Fla., the man who beat him in 2012. Rivera announced he will run for the Florida House in 2016.”
CA: PROPOSED ROBOCALL PENALTY. Turlock City News. “An update has been provided in the joint investigation with the Attorney General’s office involving four automated telephone calls, or ‘robocalls,’ attacking then-Turlock City Councilmember Mary Jackson.”
IN: LOOPHOLES CITED. JCOnline.com. “At least Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma agrees that it’s time to close the loopholes in the ethics policies for state employees.”
MT: WATCHDOG ALLEGATIONS. Daily Chronicle. “On Tuesday, Montana Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl issued a decision stating Tom Kitts violated Montana election laws by coordinating with and accepting contributions from WTP.”
VA: SUBPOENAS SOUGHT. Roanoke.com. “Former Gov. Bob McDonnell asked U.S. District Judge James Spencer on Thursday to permit 20 additional blank subpoenas for the defense, which would keep those witnesses’ names secret, for now.”
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