[EL] Technology to facilitate compliance

BZall at aol.com BZall at aol.com
Mon Aug 15 10:34:40 PDT 2011


 
In a message dated 8/15/2011 12:36:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
tpotter at capdale.com writes:

Individual activity is of course constitutionally important and  vital to 
our democratic system, as is small group activity. My repeated point  is that 
such activity can be done at the federal level (which is the level I  was 
discussing) without lawyers or accountants. The FEC website provides forms  
and detailed information and advice. This is possible for individuals and  
small groups--as opposed to more complicated political actors----precisely  
because they are small and their issues relatively  simple.


Sigh. If only that were true. 
 
Let's take a simple example: Mom and Pop Bo Peep become concerned  about S. 
666, new legislation promoting increased shearing. Their  Senator, Sen. 
Potter, chairs the Senate Sheep Shearing and Fleecing Committee,  which has 
scheduled a markup on S.666 next week. The Bo Peeps start a new  group: "No 
More Clips!" NMC raises enough money to send a couple of rounds of  direct 
mail. 
 
Since they only have a little money, they decide they'll get their biggest  
bang for the buck by sending their message to Sen. Potter's campaign  
contributors, a la the recent Target campaign. "Tell Sen. Potter NO on S. 666!"  
is their text. Their campaign meets the IRS's definition of issue advocacy  
under Rev. Rul. 2006-4, which, of course, they've never heard of and 
probably  couldn't find. Grassroots lobbying, which is what this message would be 
is  non-deductible, but they have no clue about that or about the requirement 
 that their solicitations and donor acknowledgements must contain a 
disclaimer  about non-deductibility (or I suppose they could just pay the "proxy 
tax" on  lobbying communications). Nor do they know that their message is a 
grassroots  communication under LDA rules, although the ABA AdLaw Section 
wants to regulate  grassroots lobbying under the LDA, which might ensnare the Bo 
Peeps in yet  another regulatory filing.  But leaving aside all those taxes 
and  regulatory filings just to say they don't want to be sheared, let's 
return to  their central plan and the FEC. 
 
NMC uses FEC contributor data to contact Sen. Potter's biggest donors.  
After all, Sen. Potter has said "Individual activity is of course  
constitutionally important and vital to our democratic system, as is small group  
activity." And they watched the FEC instructional video about the use of  campaign 
contributor information, in which the FEC says that "Complete  and accurate 
disclosure of the sources and amounts of funds used to finance  federal 
elections is the cornerstone of America's campaign finance law." 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIEsyfCKZEA_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIEsyfCKZEA)  
(at  6:28). And they understand the Supreme Court's decision in Doe v. Reed 
to have  said that such reports, if they are deemed to have political 
significance, are  public information. And they have read lots of places that 
Citizens United  promoted disclosure. "We like disclosure," the Bo Peeps say. 
"We learn who gave  money so we can talk to them about it." 
 
The first time they use the disclosed information for their "No on S. 666"  
message, there's no problem. But NMC uses it a second time, and BOOM, Sen.  
Potter's office calls them. He says they are harassing his donors. He tells 
the  Bo Peeps that the FEC has ruled that they can use the list once for a  
political message, but a second time is forbidden by the FEC under AO  
2003-4 (Tobacco Free Kids). He also says they are violating his campaign's  
financial rights in its list under  FEC v Int'l Funding Institute,  Inc., 969 
F.2d 1110 (DC Cir. 1992) (en banc) (solicitation provision  constitutional 
because it affects political committees' economic interests in  their lists) 
(RBG concurring that Congress's choice was "sensible"). He neglects  to point 
out the conflicting 2nd Circuit decision in FEC v Political  Contributions 
Data, Inc., 943 F.2d 190 (2d Cir. 1991)(not considering  "troubling First 
Amendment questions raised by the Commission's regulations").  The Bo Peeps 
protest that they didn't know; that they weren't soliciting  memberships or 
using the names for a commercial purpose. Sen. Potter laughs and  says, 
"Nonsense, you could have looked up the Advisory Opinion on the FEC  website. It's 
easy and simple." 
 
Threatened with prison time or fines for using disclosed data, the Bo Peeps 
 close NMC, retreat to the barn, bleat piteously as they are sheared (at  
least metaphorically), and emerge bleeding from the process. 
 
If you are a simple American, you read the papers, you believe what people  
tell you, you think you can use the newly-touted disclosure mechanisms to 
do  what people have always done: petition the government for redress of 
grievances.  Even if you read the FEC's own instructional data and publications, 
view their  videos, and talk to people in the business, you have no clue 
that you can't  actually USE the disclosed information for political purposes 
(at least not more  than once). You think that disclosure's a good thing; at 
least that's what  you're told. 
 
In reality, if you learn about the law (ALL the laws) you find that you are 
 but a sheep led to . . . oh, never mind. 
 
 
Barnaby Zall
Of Counsel
Weinberg, Jacobs & Tolani,  LLP
11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 1200
Rockville, MD 20852
301-231-6943  (direct dial)
_www.wjlaw.com_ (http://www.wj/) 
bzall at aol.com



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From: Smith, Brad  [mailto:BSmith at law.capital.edu]
Sent: Mon 8/15/2011 10:33 AM
To: Trevor  Potter; Volokh, Eugene; law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: RE:  [EL] Technology to facilitate compliance


Your position, as I  understand it, has been that citizens are represented 
through large  organizations, such as the NRA, NARAL Pro-Choice, unions, and 
large professional  organizations. (We will not unduly harp on the fact 
that for years many members  of the reform community has demanded more 
restrictions on PACs, at different  times expressing a desire to abolish them). 
Similarly, you have suggested that  large corporations can afford large PACs. 
And you have suggested that small  corporations that have a PAC do so solely 
for lobbying, ignoring the real point  that a) virtually no such companies 
have PACs because the combination of  compliance and the restrictions on 
fundraising make them impractical, and b) to  the extent they are practicable, 
they are only such if used for the limited  purpose of supplementing lobbying, 
rather than having a serious impact on  political debate.

The point that Jim, Larry, I and others have been  raising is that the 
rules are a real hardship on small, often-spontaneous,  grassroots activity. 
Your response, and Doug's has been that this type of  activity really isn't 
very important. People who can't afford to hire  Caplan-Drysdale aren't likely 
to raise much money or have much influence anyway.  As Doug suggested, maybe 
if they can't handle the compliance, they should find  other ways to 
participate. This does have some truth to it, but it is not a  normative position 
I find inspiring and it is a position that reinforces the  pull of large 
entities and discourages, indeed is even dismissive of, the  political 
activities of citizens in everyday life.

The presence of large  organizations exercising political influence simply 
does not do away with the  question of the effect of these laws on small 
organizations, local party  committees, small, volunteer-based campaigns, and 
spontaneous citizen-directed  and organized activites. Indeed, the dominance 
of large organizations may  reflect in some respects the difficulty of 
organic, grassroots participation  under the law. 

Challenged to come forth with "proof" that more activity  that might be 
going on if there weren't these laws in place (not an easy task,  to be sure, 
since no one can no for sure) and the cost of compliance, we have  presented 
evidence of the cost of the compliance and evidence from our own  
experiences that many people are discouraged from participation by these laws.  Your 
response, which amounts to "hey, stop complaining, they've got the NRA" is,  
I take it, a concession of the point we originally raised, by you who have  
insisted on calling us "plutocrats."

Bradley A. Smith
Josiah H.  Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Capital University  Law School
303 E. Broad St.
Columbus, OH 43215
(614)  236-6317
http://www.law.capital.edu/Faculty/Bios/bsmith.asp

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From:  Trevor Potter [mailto:tpotter at capdale.com]
Sent: Mon 8/15/2011 9:43 AM
To:  Smith, Brad; Volokh, Eugene; law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject:  RE: [EL] Technology to facilitate compliance



Brad:

I have  said expressly the opposite. I assume others can read, and am 
ending this  thread.

Trevor

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From:  Smith, Brad [mailto:BSmith at law.capital.edu]
Sent: Mon 8/15/2011 9:25  AM
To: Trevor Potter; Volokh, Eugene;  law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: RE: [EL] Technology to  facilitate compliance


It appears to me that you are conceding that  the rules have largely 
stomped out small scale grassroots political  activity.

Bradley A. Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault  Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
303 E. Broad  St.
Columbus, OH 43215
(614)  236-6317
http://www.law.capital.edu/Faculty/Bios/bsmith.asp

________________________________

From:  Trevor Potter [mailto:tpotter at capdale.com]
Sent: Mon 8/15/2011 9:24 AM
To:  Smith, Brad; Volokh, Eugene; law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject:  RE: [EL] Technology to facilitate compliance



All of the examples  I gave were of non-connected, non business PACS. That 
is because "average  citizens" have historically organized around causes and 
issues, such as guns,  life/choice, ERA, retirement, etc. one could extend 
this to  professions--lawyers, doctors, bankers, nurses, and the 
traditionally big  one--laborers, usually represented for economic purposes by unions. 
And Brad and  others were claiming that these "average citizens" were 
somehow advantaged by  Citizens United license to corporations.

None of that has anything to do  with Brad's example: a small company 
employing 65 people, of whom maybe 10 or 20  are in the "restricted class" and 
thus solicitable. In my experience, such  companies have a PAC for only one 
reason--as a lobbying tool. Their lobbyist has  told them he/she needs to take 
a PAC check to Washington events to spend time  with Members of Congress. I 
know of companies that do this--and the compliance  costs are minimal, as 
the PAC by definition has only a handful of donors and  does not make many 
contributions. An administrative assistant fills out the  reports. For a small 
company, of that is needed if for an executive to walk  around the halls 
and personally solicit the handful of people, with virtually no  overhead.

To re-state my earlier point, the larger the operation, the  more 
complicated compliance becomes. Payroll deduction, professional  fundraisers, 
four-color solicitation materials, an expensive "charitable match"  program --they 
all add to the cost. Of course, those are not truly COMPLIANCE  
expenditures--those are business expenses voluntarily incurred by the company  because 
they want a larger PAC to have more political clout--read lobbying  power. 
That may well be a rational business decision, but only by bootstrapping  does 
it become a regulatory  burden.

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From: Smith, Brad  [mailto:BSmith at law.capital.edu]
Sent: Mon 8/15/2011 8:37 AM
To: Trevor  Potter; Volokh, Eugene; law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: RE:  [EL] Technology to facilitate compliance


The point is, a small PAC of  ordinary citizens, or a small business, a) 
can't pay those admin costs from the  corporate treasury, and can't afford 
them if they can, and b) still has to incur  substantial costs in raising funds 
in accordance with the rules - costs that are  made much higher by the 
rules (this is part of what SpeechNow.org v. FEC was  about).

Realistically, for example, there is no way a small business  employing, 
say, 65 people, can afford to operate a PAC given the compliance and  
administrative costs (remembering that the administrative costs are almost all  
"compliance costs" in that they are substantially the result of the  
regulations), and that such a company is likely to have a small number of people  it 
can even solicit. So the vaunted PAC option becomes a big money game. And the  
regulations cut off alternatives for more ordinary citizens and more 
grassroots  activity.

I'm not quite sure why you seem to think that the operation of  big money 
PACs mean that PACs are a viable alternative for people without big  money.

Bradley A. Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault  Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
303 E. Broad  St.
Columbus, OH 43215
(614)  236-6317
http://www.law.capital.edu/Faculty/Bios/bsmith.asp

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From:  Trevor Potter [mailto:tpotter at capdale.com]
Sent: Sun 8/14/2011 10:21  PM
To: Smith, Brad; Volokh, Eugene;  law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: RE: [EL] Technology to  facilitate compliance



That's what I expected. And solicitation  costs include outside fundraising 
consultants, PLUS for most Fortune 500  companies the costs of the amazing 
"matching gift" program, in which the FEC has  allowed companies to offer 
their PAC donors a dollar for dollar match of  contributions to their favorite 
charities. I don't dispute it is possible to  spend a million dollars a 
year on a corporate Pac--but that is a cadillac of a  PAC...and every penny of 
that million dollars is from the corporate treasury,  not from PAC  funds.
Trevor

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From: Smith,  Brad [mailto:BSmith at law.capital.edu]
Sent: Sun 8/14/2011 10:10 PM
To:  Trevor Potter; Volokh, Eugene; law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject:  RE: [EL] Technology to facilitate compliance


That's the total  administrative costs, for example, including solicitation 
costs, which are  increased by the rules and regulations, of course, 
including the limits on the  size of contributions.

Ansolabehere, de Figueiredo  & Snyder,  Why is there so little money in 
U.S. politics?, 17 J. Econ. Perspectives 105,  109.

Bradley A. Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault  Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
303 E. Broad  St.
Columbus, OH 43215
(614)  236-6317
http://www.law.capital.edu/Faculty/Bios/bsmith.asp

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From:  Trevor Potter [mailto:tpotter at capdale.com]
Sent: Sun 8/14/2011 9:56 PM
To:  Smith, Brad; Volokh, Eugene; law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject:  RE: [EL] Technology to facilitate compliance



Brad:

Is  there a citeation to that figure? And does it include solicitation 
costs (or  matching giving)? Based on my experience, that is farb more than an 
accountant  and occasional legal questions...

Trevor  Potter

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From:  law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu on behalf of Smith, 
Brad
Sent:  Sun 8/14/2011 8:29 PM
To: Volokh, Eugene;  law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Technology to  facilitate compliance


By the way, to give some sense of things, in  recent years the typical 
Fortune 500 company PAC has spent approximately $1  million per year on 
administration, or roughly half of its total take. I think  we can safely assume 
that for smaller PACs, the administrative costs are an even  higher percentage 
of the amount raised and spent.

Bradley A.  Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of  Law
Capital University Law School
303 E. Broad St.
Columbus, OH  43215
(614)  236-6317
http://www.law.capital.edu/Faculty/Bios/bsmith.asp

________________________________

From:  law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu on behalf of Smith, 
Brad
Sent:  Sun 8/14/2011 8:24 PM
To: Volokh, Eugene;  law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Technology to  facilitate compliance


Well, first it is the forms. It's not that they  are computerized or not - 
it's that they exist. Filling in the data is not that  hard - that's not the 
problem. Rather, it is figuring out where the data go, and  keeping track 
of the underlying numbers.  The forms are typically quite  complex, and we 
forget that most people are not used to dealing with forms and  legaleze 
instructions. (Some might recall the John Stoessel episode in which he  asked 
"reform" spokespersons to fill out forms, which most couldn't do; a couple  
studies, one, I believe, by Jeffrey Milyo, found that people couldn't complete  
the forms correctly even with direct monetary incentives to do so. If you 
want  to try, go to the FEC website, pull up some basic forms, and see how 
you do). It  is very difficult for an amatuer to know how to classify various 
expenditures  and income, for example, and especially what to do with even 
minor asset sales  and the like. The laws also make the book-keeping for 
routine old time  fundraising - selling ice cream at the county fair, passing 
the hat at a rally,  speech, or gathering; selling some t-shirts, etc - 
virtually impossible. This  points up the second problem, knowing and complying 
with the underlying rules.  Third, it is the formal accounting systems that 
must be established to comply  with the law. Fourth, it is the threat of legal 
liability and fines for  mistakes. The more heavily reliant a campaign is 
on volunteers, the more likely  it is that one or more of those volunteers 
will make mistakes subjecting the  campaign to liability. Thus volunteers are 
in some cases outright discouraged,  and in others kept on a tight leash - 
they can lick envelopes, for example, but  are discouraged or prohibited from 
asking for funds or arranging  events.

I estimate overall that a very small, ongoing campaign that wants  to be 
relieved of these duties should budget $3000 to $5000 a month for  
professional fees. For many small campaigns, even that amount will be far too  low. Add 
in the fear of violations, and that stomps out a lot of activity. Of  
course, a single complaint can raise that cost dramatically, even if the  
complaint ultimately fails to even meet the relatively low "reason to believe"  
standard. An initial response to a complaint is typically $5000 to $10,000.  
Having seen the operations from inside, I would not advise a campaign to  
responde without counsel. Obviously, a complaint that leads to a full  
investigation can cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, even if  the 
complaint is dismissed before trial.

Potential fines for violations  are typically substantial for small 
violators. For example, a campaign with  $2500 in expenses that fails to file a 
report faces a $250 fine for a first time  violation. If that is an "election 
sensitive report," however, they are looking  at a $550 fine for a first time 
offense. These are fines that go through the  FEC's "administrative fines" 
system. The minimum fine for anything that must go  through regular 
enforcement is historically $1000. The statute generally  authorizes fines for 
unintentional violations of up to $5000 or the amount in  question, whichever is 
larger. The FEC calculates the amount in question so as  to raise liability: 
e.g., before Citizens United, if a small business spent  $1.32 to mail 
three solicitations from the company CEO, and because of that  raised $6000, the 
FEC views the amount of the violation as $6000, not the $1.32  actually 
spent. PAC treasurers are personally liable for fines if the PAC cannot  (or 
will not) pay it.

Bradley A. Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley  M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
303 E.  Broad St.
Columbus, OH 43215
(614)  236-6317
http://www.law.capital.edu/Faculty/Bios/bsmith.asp

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From:  law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu on behalf of Volokh,  
Eugene
Sent: Sun 8/14/2011 7:41 PM
To:  law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Technology to  facilitate compliance



So - and again a naïve question - what, practically is the burden  of 
compliance (especially as to disclosure) for small campaigns?  I'm not  doubting 
that there is such a burden; I just want a better sense of what it is,  and 
whether it can be mitigated.



Eugene



From:  law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu  
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Smith,  Brad
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 4:15 PM
To:  law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Technology to  facilitate compliance



The automation rule is the norm at the FEC,  which provides free software, 
and in many if not most states. Many small  campaigns, however, still have 
difficulties with using the  software.



The technical filling of data, however, is not the real  problem, though it 
does add to the costs and fears that people have. And believe  me, people 
do have fears.



Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H.  Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law

Capital  University Law School

303 E. Broad St.

Columbus, OH  43215

(614)  236-6317

http://www.law.capital.edu/Faculty/Bios/bsmith.asp



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From:  law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu on behalf of Volokh,  
Eugene
Sent: Sun 8/14/2011 5:52 PM
To:  law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Technology to  facilitate compliance



I agree  entirely that the government should provide the software -- which 
will often be  as simple as a Web page (with supporting software) hosted on 
the jurisdiction's  election commission Web site, or perhaps a spreadsheet 
template that people  could fill in and that the Web page could accept for 
batch uploads, plus perhaps  some software to provide automatic schedule 
reminder e-mails to everyone who  signs up.  But this is not rocket science; this 
would be a simple  application of well-understood, routinely used 
technology.

Indeed, I would think there should be a general principle, whether  enacted 
in statute or just as a strongly accepted guideline -- let's call it the  
Automation Rule:  Every disclosure and reporting regulation imposed by  
election law must be accompanied with government-provided software, and that  
proper use of such software would fully discharge the user's legal obligations  
under the jurisdiction's election law.  Naturally, the software also has to 
 be made easy to use, and it's hard to come up with a purely legal rule to 
make  sure that it is easy enough to use.  But it seems to me that if the  
Automation Rule isn't an existing norm already, it should be.

Eugene

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-
>  bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Levine
> Sent:  Sunday, August 14, 2011 12:23 PM
> To: 'Kathay Feng'; Volokh, Eugene;  law-election-bounces at department-
> lists.uci.edu;  law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
> Subject: Re: [EL] Check out Study  shows who breaks campaign laws-
> ThePuebloChieftai...
>
>  Transaction costs are just a very small part of the matter. It is the  
rules
> about what needs to be reported and upon what schedule that  creates the
> traps. These rules often differ from jurisdiction to  jurisdiction and 
change
> from election cycle to election cycle within the  same jurisdiction. If 
the
> government is going to require automated  (electronic) filing of
> contributions and expenditures, then the  government should either provide
> the software and hardware needed to  comply free of charge, or allow those
> costs to fall beyond the limits of  spending on a campaign.
> The difficulty with so much of what we enact in  the way of reporting 
reforms
> is that they may apply well to big  statewide races or even to legislative
> races. But when you come down to  a city council campaign in a town of 
just a
> few thousand people, or in a  very small school district those 
requirements
> become burdensome.
>  Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
>  [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of  
Kathay
> Feng
> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 11:58 AM
> To:  Volokh, Eugene; law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu;
>  law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
> Subject: Re: [EL] Check out Study  shows who breaks campaign laws-
> ThePuebloChieftai...
>
>  Automation is certainly a practical solution that would help. In  
California,
> we had a bi- and non-partisan group of reformers, the  regulated 
community,
> citizen groups and others that all agreed that  greater automation would 
help
> with disclosure, and significantly lower  transaction costs for both
> campaigns and the government.  The idea  is still stuck in the mud, 
though.
> Sent via BlackBerry by  AT&T
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Volokh,  Eugene" <VOLOKH at law.ucla.edu>
> Sender:  law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011  10:41:53
> To:
>  
law-election at department-lists.uci.edu<law-election at department-lists.uci.edu>
>  Subject: Re: [EL] Check out Study shows who breaks campaign laws
>   -        ThePuebloChieftai...
>
>       A naïve  question:  Could some of these problems -- at least to
> filing -- be  relieved with automation (and might they already be so
> relieved),  especially with automation that the jurisdiction is willing to
> certify  as sufficient?  For instance, I certainly sympathize with 
concerns
>  about the burden of reporting contributions and expenditures, but what  
if
> State X, when it enacts some such disclosure restrictions, provides  that 
the
> obligation is discharged if a campaign worker goes to a  particular Web 
site
> and accurately enters all the data he's asked to  enter?  Likewise, I 
take it
> that whatever software is used to  gather credit card donations via the 
Web
> presumably already creates a  data file that can just be sent to the 
election
> authorities to discharge  the disclosure obligations.  Or am I missing
> something big  here?
>
>       Eugene
>
> > On  Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Larry Levine  
<larrylevine at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> > > You've  touched a nerve. We have "reformed" our way into a time when
> > >  one cannot run an election campaign of any size, or a PAC, or
> > >  conduct activities of a state or local political party or club
> > >  without the cost of a professional treasurer and an attorney on
> >  > retainer. At the same time we are placing limits on the amounts of
>  > > contributions and the permissible expenditures in campaign  without
> > > allowing for these "overhead" items to come from a  separate account.
> > > Gone is the day when a volunteer can be the  treasurer of a campaign
> > > for a friend if the campaign is of any  consequential size. On top of
> > > that, we have created a thicket  of regulations and requirements that
> > > differ from state to  state and from jurisdiction to jurisdiction
> > > within a state,  thus making it virtually impossible for a campaign
> > > and/or a  candidate to avoid violations without the services of an
> > >  elections attorney who is watching over every facet of the campaign.
>  > > And all in aide of stamping out the perception of corruption.  Tell
> > > me, is the perception any less now than when we started  the "reforms"
> some 40 years ago?
> > >
> > >  Larry
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