[EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 5/16/11

[Ken Vogel]

This Colbert riff features clips of Dick Morris and Karl Rove talking
about their independent expenditure-only PACs on the air:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/386085/may-11-201
1/corp-constituency

And here's one example, from Media Matters, of Huckabee doing the same:

http://mediamatters.org/research/200910050002

The Washington Post subsequently reported that "Fox executives told
Huckabee to stop plugging" a website linked to his PAC "on the air after
learning that it linked to his political action committee, which the
network deemed a conflict of interest":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/20/AR200912
2002355.html

 

 

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Ken Vogel's article about Colbert's FEC filing quotes a few people as
stating that FOX pundits routinely promote their PACs on air. I assume
they're mainly talking about Rove, Palin, and Huckabee. Can anybody
point me to transcripts or clips where they do this? Thanks.

 

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May 16, 2011 


"Stephen Colbert at the FEC? Really."


Don't miss Ken Vogel's report
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54946.html> .

Posted by Rick Hasen at 08:03 AM
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/019497.html>  


Politico's Arena on the Obama Draft EO on Contractor Disclosure


It ran over the weekend here
<http://www.politico.com/arena/archive/does-white-house-proposal-threate
n-free-speech.html>  (scroll down below Huckabee question). My
contribution is here
<http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/Richard_Hasen_F0E901C9-2AA8-4897-A94
0-8ABA5F95272B.html> .

Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:57 AM
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/019496.html>  


"Congress Watches California's Remapping from Afar"


McClatchy reports
<http://www.sacbee.com/2011/05/16/3628814/congress-watches-californias-r
emapping.html> .

Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:52 AM
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/019495.html>  


"Full Disclosure; The dramatic turn away from campaign transparency."


A great piece <http://www.tnr.com/node/88005?page=0,0>  by Norm Ornstein
in the New Republic (via Frank Pasquale
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2011/05/war-against-disclosure.html> ). More
from Katrina vanden Huevel
<http://www.thenation.com/blog/160680/lets-end-secret-money-arms-race> .

Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:47 AM
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/019494.html>  


"Tracie Hunter Has Sued or Been Sued 13 Times"


This interesting report
<http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110514/NEWS0108/105150338/Tracie-H
unter-has-sued-or-been-sued-13-times>  discusses one of the candidates
at issue in an important post-Bush v. Gore election administration case
from Hamilton County, OH.

Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:42 AM
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/019493.html>  


"A Split on Alternative Voting Systems"


WSJ's "The Numbers Guy" has a column
<http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/a-split-vote-on-alternative-electoral-s
ystems-1059/>  on the controversy over instant runoff voting's math that
is well worth reading.

Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:38 AM
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/019492.html>  


"Colleagues see Nickolaus as insular, hardworking; Waukesha County
clerk's error is at center of Supreme Court recount"


The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel offers this report
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/121866773.html> .

Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:34 AM
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/019491.html>  


NYT on Disclosure


The newspaper offers News Corp to Begin Disclosing Political Donations
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/business/media/15newscorp.html?_r=1&s
cp=2&sq=news%20corp&st=cse> ; an oped
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/opinion/15bogle.html?_r=1>  by
Vanguard founder John Bogle, "The Supreme Court Had Its Say. Now Let
Shareholders;" and an editorial
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/opinion/16mon3.html?scp=1&sq=the%20ru
sh%20to%20secret%20money&st=Search> , "The Rush to Secret Money."

Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:27 AM
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/019490.html>  

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