[EL] Fortune 500 election-related contributions

[Marty Lederman]

If I may repeat a question I've asked before (to which I have yet to see
any answer -- perhaps I'm the only one who's interested!):

To the extent spending has materially increased or changed in nature in
these past two or so election cycles, how much of the change can be chalked
up to Wisconsin Right to Life rather than to CU?

That is to say:  Is an appreciable amount of the spending about which
you're all debating being expended for "magic words" advertising, or could
all or almost all of it have been spent after WRtL, even if CU had come out
the other way?

Thanks in advance.



On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

>  It would be nice if we could have some data to back up such assertions
> either way.  Based on the data we have (see below), it sure does look like
> CU changed the extent of outside spending---corporate or not.
> On 7/9/2012 10:01 AM, Kelner, Robert wrote:
>
>  Lloyd Mayer’s response to Rick’s question below is exactly right.  There
> was lots and lots of pre-CU c4 and c6 election-related activity (in the lay
> sense of that term), and a good chunk of it was corporate funded.  I don’t
> think that is or was exactly a state secret.  I am hardly the first person
> to make this point.  And acknowledging that history is critical to avoid
> misleading claims that CU somehow changed the way the world works.  It did
> not.****
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