[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/20/12
JBoppjr at aol.com
JBoppjr at aol.com
Fri Dec 21 06:23:23 PST 2012
Regarding this comment in the Fixing Washington post:
A 2011 Gallup poll found that sixty-four percent of voters had low or very
low trust in members of Congress, the lowest percentage ever recorded by
Gallup for a profession and below trust ratings for lobbyists, telemarketers,
and car salespeople.
Despite hundreds of pages of federal campaign finance laws and thousands of
pages of FEC regulations, the promise of campaign finance "reform" has
failed. Most importantly, federal contribution limits -- the flagship of
"reform" -- first adopted after Watergate and McCain-Feingold's prohibition on
soft money to political parties, which were justified to fight actual
corruption and the public's perception of corruption, has done no such thing.
Instead, the money that would have (mostly) gone to candidates and political
parties goes elsewhere into much less accountable and in some cases much
less transparent places.
But once again the answer is more campaign finance restrictions -- as if
doing the same thing over and over again will yield a different result.
Or it could be that the original restrictions just missed the mark. In
any event, there is no justification for the original restrictions and they
should be repealed. But alas some people prefer just doing the same thing
over and over again. Jim Bopp
In a message dated 12/20/2012 7:48:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
rhasen at law.uci.edu writes:
_Light Blogging through the Holidays_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45619)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:47 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45619) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
Blogging will be intermittent over the next two weeks. Happy holidays and a
happy new year to all my ELB readers!
Here’s to a happy, healthy and safe 2013.
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_Harvard Law Review Publishes My “Fixing Washington” Piece, Lessig’s
Reply_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45616)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:45 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45616) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
>From the _new issue_
(http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/126/december12/index.php) of the _Harvard Law Review_
(http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/126/december12/index.php) :
_Fixing Washington_
(http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/126/december12/Book_Review_9410.php)
Book Review by Richard L. Hasen ::
REPUBLIC, LOST: HOW MONEY CORRUPTS POLITICS — AND A PLAN TO STOP IT. By
Lawrence Lessig. New York, N.Y., and Boston, Mass.: Twelve Press. 2011. Pp.
xiii, 383. $26.99.
CAPITOL PUNISHMENT: THE HARD TRUTH ABOUT WASHINGTON CORRUPTION FROM AMERICA
’S MOST NOTORIOUS LOBBYIST. By Jack Abramoff. Washington, D.C.: WND Books.
2011. Pp. iii, 303. $25.95.
It is a tired cliché that Washington is “broken” and needs fixing. A 2011
Gallup poll found that sixty-four percent of voters had low or very low
trust in members of Congress, the lowest percentage ever recorded by Gallup
for a profession and below trust ratings for lobbyists, telemarketers, and
car salespeople. The recent economic downturn has not only coincided with
record-low approval ratings for Congress and with general lack of trust in
government but also produced two protest movements: the Tea Party on the right
and the Occupy movement on the left. Despite the fact that these movements
come from the fringes of the Republican and Democratic parties, they share
some common critiques of federal lawmaking: they condemn the role of
lobbyists in Washington and the “crony capitalists” who hire them. From
President Obama to Senator Rand Paul and former Governor Sarah Palin, there is a
widespread sentiment that money in Washington skews political outcomes and
that lobbyists are the fixers who cut the deals that help insiders benefit
themselves at the expense of the public interest.
In their new and very different books, Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig
from the left and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff from the right come to
similar conclusions about what is wrong with Washington. Lessig’s book is a
populist call to action for the people to “take back Washington” through
campaign finance reform. Abramoff’s book is an autobiography that is part
apology and part justification for a promising career that veered badly off
track.
Despite the different starting points, the books end in much the same
place. Lessig and Abramoff both want to take lobbyists out of the fundraising
business, breaking the connection between money and lobbyists’ legitimate
information-providing function. They seek to close the revolving door between
Congress and lobbying shops because of the inherent conflict that arises
when officeholders or staffers start thinking about post-government lobbying
jobs. They part company on what else is needed, however: Lessig wants
publicly financed campaign finance vouchers to lessen further the power of
special interests, while Abramoff wants to shrink the size of government to give
lobbyists a smaller target.
Together, Lessig and Abramoff offer a mostly convincing critique of how
lobbying skews public policy and can harm the United States. The books
demonstrate that lobbying can thwart the public interest, especially when players
with much at stake use lobbyists to block or alter legislation on issues
that lack salience with the general public. Although it is tempting to focus
on Abramoff’s admittedly illegal behavior, both books illustrate that much
of the problem with the relationship among money, politics, and lobbying
stems from what is legal, not illegal. Indeed, although both Abramoff and
Lessig present the problem as one of “corruption,” the real concern should be
less with exchanges of dollars for political favors and more with the
decline in national economic welfare that occurs thanks to lobbyist-facilitated
rent-seeking. Lessig also appears concerned with political inequality,
although he distances himself from egalitarian arguments for reform. Defining
the problem as one other than quid pro quo corruption, however, threatens
the constitutionality of reforms in a post–Citizens United world.
Nonetheless, while the critiques of the Washington status quo are well
made, both books offer incomplete reform agendas and unconvincing paths to
enacting reform. Much of what is wrong with Washington has nothing to do with
money in politics. Instead, partisan gridlock and the divergence of
legislative action from the apparent public interest emerge from the highly
partisan and ideological nature of Congress and the presidency; polarized views
on the nature of the public interest; the breakdown of civility and an era
of “gotcha” politics; and structural impediments to enacting legislation,
such as the Senate filibuster and changes in the House committee structure.
The current state of toxic politics and institutions inadequate to
constrain such politics arose not from an outsized influence of money on politics
but from a variety of sources, including the party realignment in the South
following the civil rights movement and the resurgence of partisan media
(and now social media). Even if the authors’ complete reform agendas were
enacted and the amount of rent-seeking legislation procured by lobbying
significantly curbed, it is far from clear that Washington would be “fixed.”
Lessig, for example, claims that money has prevented both the left and the
right from getting their agendas passed. It is hard to see that money has been
the primary stumbling block to enacting competing agendas simultaneously.
When it comes to high-salience, big legislative questions such as
immigration reform, the primary barriers to reform are partisanship, deadlock, and
vetogates, not the role of money. In the rare circumstance when major
legislative reform does pass, as in the case of health care reform, the passage
of legislation further fuels partisan recriminations.
Nor is it clear that the kinds of fundamental campaign finance reforms that
Lessig advocates stand any realistic chance of being enacted under current
political conditions. Lessig acknowledges the hard road ahead, but even so
he seems overly optimistic. For example, he suggests there is a ten
percent chance that a call for a constitutional convention to amend the
Constitution to allow new campaign finance and lobbying reform could succeed. But
the same partisan, sclerotic politics that would make reform of money in
politics only a partial solution to a broken Washington would also make the
chances of calling a constitutional convention to enact a reform agenda much
slimmer than one in ten. Fixing Washington’s money problems may have to
await widespread scandal, and fixing its broader problems likely will have to
await a societal shift that alleviates the partisanship currently gripping
national politics.
126 Harv. L. Rev. 550 (2012) | _DOWNLOAD PDF_
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RESPONSE TO THIS ARTICLE
_A Reply to Professor Hasen_
(http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/126/december12/forum_983.php)
By Lawrence Lessig
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_“Mass. lawmaker, member of election committee, pleads guilty to voter
fraud”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45613)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:37 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45613) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Boston Globe: _
(http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/12/20/mass-lawmaker-member-election-committee-pleads-guilty-voter-fraud/g9cBs3OJdeGsaSa9EmUiRI/s
tory.html) “A Democratic state representative from Everett, who served on
the Legislature’s election law committee, pleaded guilty to federal charges
today that he cast fraudulent absentee ballots to help get himself elected.”
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_chicanery_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12) | Comments Off
_A Cry for Help at the FEC?_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45610)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:34 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45610) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
A knowledgeable reader points me to _this item_
(http://www.fec.gov/agenda/2012/mtgdoc_1289.pdf) on today’s FEC meeting agenda asking for public
comment on certain aspects of the FEC’s enforcement process. (The request for
public comment was approved 4-2.) The reader writes: “I see it as a cry for
help from the General Counsel’s Office, which is asking for public comment
on two basic issues: (1) can the FEC consider public information other
than what’s specifically in a complaint and (2) can the FEC initiate
enforcement actions based on publicly available information even if no one files a
complaint? Both are long-standing practices that the Republican
commissioners, especially Don McGahn, have been trying to stamp out.”
Do others see it this way too? I’m not close enough to the process to
know.
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_“House Rs Resurrect Congressional-Based Electoral College Plan”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45607)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:27 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45607) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Politics PA _
(http://www.politicspa.com/house-rs-resurrect-congressional-based-electoral-college-plan/44960/) reports.
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House%20Rs%20Resurrect%20Congressional-Based%20Electoral%20College%20Plan”&description=)
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_Remembering Obama the Election Reformer_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45604)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:14 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45604) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_FairVote reminisces_
(http://www.fairvote.org/when-barack-obama-was-a-leader-in-seeking-fair-voting-systems/#.UNOpr7bOalg) .
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_Then and Now_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45602)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:13 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45602) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
A reader writes:
How times change:
_FLASHBACK_
(http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2011/may/06/mike-bennett/think-we-have-it-tough-africa-people-walk-300-mile/) :
In 2011, then-State Senator Mike Bennett was a major supporter of HB1355,
Florida’s controversial election law which (among other things) cut back on
early voting. Bennett famously said during the debates over HB1355 that he
wanted to make voting harder, not easier.
_NOW_
(http://www.bradenton.com/2012/12/20/4323470/new-manatee-elections-chief-mike.html) :
Only a year later, Bennett has left the legislature to become Manatee
County’s elected Supervisor of Election. Now, he wants to expand early voting
back to 14 days, and increase the legally permissible locations at which the
county may offer early voting.
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_The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60) | Comments Off
_“Politico’s Dave Levinthal joins Center for Public Integrity”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45600)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:11 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45600) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Great news for CPI,_
(http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/12/20/11957/politicos-dave-levinthal-joins-center-public-integrity) which has been doing
great work on campaign disclosure issues.
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_“The Myth of State Autonomy: Federalism, Political Parties, and the
National Colonization of State Politics”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45597)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:08 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45597) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
Jim Gardner has posted _this draft_
(http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2191150) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
American federalism contemplates that states will retain a significant
degree of autonomy so that state power can serve as a meaningful counterweight
to national power. It is often said that states exercise this function
through extraconstitutional processes centered on the political party system.
That is, states influence the content of national law and protect
themselves from undesirable exercises of national power by using the mechanisms of
internal party processes. If this process is to work properly, however,
states must retain considerable political autonomy, for the possibility of
state objection to exercises of national power is merely theoretical if state
political processes are not sufficiently independent of their national
counterparts to enable the state to adopt and assert ends or interests different
from those asserted by the national government.
The evidence, however, suggests strongly that the growth of national
political parties during and since the early nineteenth century created a
two-way street. Parties not only offered states a way to influence national
politics, but also created a reverse pathway by which national politics could
influence, and in many cases overawe, any independent state-level politics.
As a result, the same extraconstitutional pathways that provided states a
means to protect themselves from national domination simultaneously eroded
the political autonomy necessary for states to maintain the kind of
independent wills contemplated by the federal arrangement. This does not mean that
states lack entirely the capacity to stand up to the federal government, but
it does mean that their ability to do so is limited, not necessarily for
lack of power but for lack of autonomous control over their political
agendas and positions. This in turn suggests a much chastened conception of what
it might mean for a subnational government to have the ability to “check”
national power.
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_Pew Data Dispatch about Provisional Ballots in Maricopa County, AZ_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45595)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:06 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45595) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Here_
(http://www.pewstates.org/research/analysis/notable-county-maricopa-county-arizonapart-i-85899437864) .
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_provisional ballots_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=67) , _The Voting
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_Controversial George Will Column on Nonvoting_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45592)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:04 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45592) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_George Will:_
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-federal-voting-drive-makes-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill/2012/12/19/461e17c4-494c-11e
2-ad54-580638ede391_story.html)
The poet Carl Sandburg supposedly was asked by a young playwright to
attend a rehearsal. Sandburg did but fell asleep. The playwright exclaimed, “How
could you sleep when you knew I wanted your opinion?” Sandburg replied, “
Sleep isan opinion.”
So is nonvoting. Remember this as the Obama administration mounts a drive
to _federalize voter registration_
(http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-05-30/national/35457450_1_voter-id-requirements-voter-laws-voter-registration
-efforts) , a step toward making voting mandatory.
_Andrew Cohen_
(http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/george-will-gets-almost-everything-wrong-about-voting-rights/266504/) :
There are so many things wrong with George Will’s latest column on voting
that it’s hard to know where to begin. Actually, that’s not right. It’s
easy to know where to begin. The very title of the piece, “_Mountain out of a
molehill_
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-federal-voting-drive-makes-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill/2012/12/19/461e17c4-494c-11e2-ad54
-580638ede391_story.html) ,” is offensive to every American whose right to
vote was jeopardized this past election cycle by _Republican
voter-suppression efforts_
(http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/why-mitt-romney-lost-a-simple-overriding-theory/264491/) .
Will’s piece is 14 paragraphs long and the only one that survives close
scrutiny is the first, because it consists mostly of a quote from Carl
Sandburg. The other 13 paragraphs render wholly unrecognizable both the
voting-rights battles of 2012 and the _national debate over how those battles ought
to be resolved_
(http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/2012_summary_of_voting_law_changes/) . Let’s take it one graph at a time.
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_The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60) | Comments Off
_“FEC & DOJ Complaints Filed Against ‘Straw Companies’ that Funneled $12
million to FreedomWorks Super PAC”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45589)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 4:00 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45589) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_See this press release_
(http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1993:december-20-2012-fec-a-doj-complaints-fi
led-against-straw-companies-that-funneled-12-million-to-freedomworks-super-p
ac-&catid=63:legal-center-press-releases&Itemid=61) .
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%20that%20Funneled%20$12%20million%20to%20FreedomWorks%20Super%20PAC”
&description=)
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_“A voter’s-eye view of Election Day 2012; Despite well-publicized
problems, overall voters satisfied with process”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45587)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 3:59 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45587) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
Charles Stewart leads off this week’s _Electionline Weekly._
(http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly)
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_“Fundraising starts up soon after election, filings show”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45584)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 3:56 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45584) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_WaPo reports._
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fundraising-starts-up-soon-after-election-filings-show/2012/12/19/853e16d0-4a0e-11e2-ad54-58063
8ede391_story.html)
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_Interesting Perspectives on Politics Issue_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45580)
Posted on _December 20, 2012 3:50 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45580) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
Paul Gronke writes: “The most recent issue of_ Perspectives on Politics_
(http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PPS) is a theme
issue about the role of elections and other democratic institutions in
non-democratic nations (authoritarian and autocratic regimes). The issue has very
rich content, including original research articles, “controversy” pieces,
and a large number of book reviews broadly on the topic of elections, from
an American, comparative, and normative perspective. The website link is
gated but the table of contents is open access, and anyone at an academic
institution should be able to access the content.” APSA Journals
_December Issue of _ (http://apsa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDExNDc3Jn
A9MSZ1PTc3MDcyNTk5NiZsaT05ODU3MDIy/index.html) _Perspectives on Politics_
(http://apsa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDExNDc3JnA9MSZ1PTc3MDcyNTk5NiZsaT05ODU3MDIy/in
dex.html) From the Editor
_Authoritarianism, Elections, Democracy?_
(http://apsa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDExNDc3JnA9MSZ1PTc3MDcyNTk5NiZsaT05ODU3MDIz/index.html) - Jeffrey C.
IsaacResearch Articles
_Beyond Patronage: Violent Struggle, Ruling Party Cohesion, and
Authoritarian Durability_
(http://apsa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDExNDc3JnA9MSZ1PTc3MDcyNTk5NiZsaT05ODU3MDI0/index.html) – Steven R. Levitsky & Lucan A. Way
_Improbable but Potentially Pivotal Oppositions: Privatization,
Capitalists, and Political Contestation in the Post-Soviet Autocracies_
(http://apsa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDExNDc3JnA9MSZ1PTc3MDcyNTk5NiZsaT05ODU3MDI1/index.
html) – Barbara Junisbai
_The Arab Spring: Why the Surprising Similarities with the Revolutionary
Wave of 1848?_
(http://apsa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDExNDc3JnA9MSZ1PTc3MDcyNTk5NiZsaT05ODU3MDI2/index.html) – Kurt Weyland
_When Multi-Method Research Subverts Methological Pluralism- or, Why We
Still Need Single-Method Research_
(http://apsa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDExNDc3JnA9MSZ1PTc3MDcyNTk5NiZsaT05ODU3MDI3/index.html) – Amel Ahmed & Rudra
Sil
Review Essay
_From Representative Democracy to Participatory Competitive
Authoritarianism: Hugo Chavez and Venezuelan Politics_
(http://apsa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDExNDc3JnA9MSZ1PTc3MDcyNTk5NiZsaT05ODU3MDI4/index.html) – Scott
Mainwaring
_Whither Russia? Autocracy Is Here for Now, but Is It Here to Stay?_
(http://apsa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDExNDc3JnA9MSZ1PTc3MDcyNTk5NiZsaT05ODU3MDI
5/index.html) – Kathryn Stoner
Review Symposium
_Neoliberalism, Race, and the American Welfare State_
(http://apsa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDExNDc3JnA9MSZ1PTc3MDcyNTk5NiZsaT05ODU3MDMw/index.html)
– Russell L. Hanson, Lawrence M. Mead, Rose Ernst, Peter J. Boettke, Mary
Fainsod Katzenstein
Critical Dialogue
_Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement_
(http://apsa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDExNDc3JnA9MSZ1PTc3MDcyNTk5NiZsaT05ODU3MDMx/inde
x.html)
Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Wendy Pearlman, Matthew N. Beckmann, Matthew N.
Green
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45580&title=Interesting%20Perspectives%20on%20Politics%20Issue&description=)
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_The NRA and Lobbying/Campaign Finance Reform_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45576)
Posted on _December 19, 2012 8:49 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45576) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
Former Bush ethics czar Richard Painter pens an interesting _NYT oped_
(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/opinion/the-nra-protection-racket.html?hp) :
Republican politicians must free themselves from the N.R.A. protection
racket and others like it. For starters, the party establishment should refuse
to endorse anyone who runs in a primary with N.R.A. money against a
sitting Republican. If the establishment refuses to support Republicans using
other Republicans for target practice, the N.R.A. will take its shooting game
somewhere else.
Reasonable gun control legislation will then be able to pass Congress and
the state legislatures. Next, Republicans should embrace legislation like
the proposed _American Anti-Corruption Act_ (http://anticorruptionact.org/) ,
which would rid both parties of their dependence on big money from groups
like the N.R.A. The Republican Party will once again be proud to be part of
the solution rather than part of the problem. And voters will go back to
feeling that their children are safe, their democracy works, and they will o
nce again consider voting Republican.
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Posted in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) ,
_legislation and legislatures_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27) , _lobbying_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28) | Comments Off
_“Death threats made against the Colorado Secretary of State”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45573)
Posted on _December 19, 2012 8:27 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45573) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Disgusting._
(http://www.9news.com/shows/evenings/305998/510/Threats-made-against-the-secretary-of-state)
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45573&title=“
Death%20threats%20made%20against%20the%20Colorado%20Secretary%20of%20State”&description=)
Posted in _chicanery_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12) , _The Voting
Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60) | Comments Off
_“THE BATTLE OVER ELECTION REFORM IN THE SWING STATE OF FLORIDA”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45570)
Posted on _December 19, 2012 8:23 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45570) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
Susan MacManus has written _this article_ (http://t.co/hIKOSBw5) for the
New England Journal of Political Science.
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45570&title=“
THE%20BATTLE%20OVER%20ELECTION%20REFORM%20IN%20THE%20SWING%20STATE%20OF%20FLORIDA”&description=)
Posted in _election administration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18) ,
_The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60) | Comments Off
_“Ethics restrictions so strict they undermine democracy”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45567)
Posted on _December 19, 2012 8:10 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45567) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
Kathleen Clark _blogs_
(http://www.legalethicsforum.com/blog/2012/12/ethics-restrictions-so-strict-they-undermine-democracy.html?utm_source=feedburner&u
tm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+LegalEthicsForum+(Legal+Ethics+Forum)&utm_
content=Google+Reader) on Congress’ _passage of_
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2012/12/19/congress-sends-hatch-act-reform-bill-t
o-president/?print=1) the _Hatch Act Modernization Act_
(http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s2170/text) ,
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45567&title=“Ethics%20restrictions%20so%20strict%20they%20undermine%20democracy”
&description=)
Posted in _conflict of interest laws_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20)
, _ethics investigations_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=42) | Comments
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_“As Charlie Crist testifies before Congress on Florida’s voting
problems, Gov. Rick Scott voices support for changes”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45564)
Posted on _December 19, 2012 3:42 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45564) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_The Tampa Bay Times reports._
(http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/as-charlie-crist-testifies-before-congress-on-floridas-voting-problems-g
ov/1266861)
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=4
5564&title=“As%20Charlie%20Crist%20testifies%20before%20Congress%20on%20Florida’
s%20voting%20problems,%20Gov.%20Rick%20Scott%20voices%20support%20for%20chan
ges”&description=)
Posted in _election administration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18) ,
_The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60) | Comments Off
_“Former Governor Urges Congress to Consider New National Voting Standards”
_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45561)
Posted on _December 19, 2012 3:32 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45561) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_BLT reports._
(http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2012/12/former-governor-urges-congress-to-consider-new-national-voting-standards.html)
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45561&title=“
Former%20Governor%20Urges%20Congress%20to%20Consider%20New%20National%20Voting%20Standards”&description=)
Posted in _election administration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18) ,
_The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60) | Comments Off
_“Outside Money Takes the Inside Track”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45559)
Posted on _December 19, 2012 3:31 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45559) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Public Citizen_ (http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=5833) : “In First
Full Post-Citizens United Cycle, Unrestricted Groups Moved Closer to
Eclipsing Candidates and National Parties in Election Spending in 2012 “
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45559&title=“Outside%20Money%20Takes%20the%20Inside%20Track”&description=)
Posted in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) |
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