[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/23/12
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Mon Jul 23 09:07:47 PDT 2012
"Edit Memo: Take Back the Constitution from the Corporate Court"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37335>
Posted on July 23, 2012 9:05 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37335> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Extensive Jamie Raskin memo
<http://www.pfaw.org/issues/government-people/edit-memo-take-back-constitution-corporate-court>.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme
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"Dan Morain: Lungren-Bera race likely to be a PAC battlefield"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37333>
Posted on July 23, 2012 9:04 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37333> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Dan Morain
<http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/22/4646299/lungren-bera-race-likely-to-be.html>
(SacBee): "Jonathan Soros, son of hedge fund billionaire George Soros,
<http://topics.sacbee.com/George+Soros/>is about to meet casino mogul
Sheldon Adelson in a smackdown over the Sacramento-area congressional
seat held by Republican Dan Lungren."
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,
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"Republican Party in California Is Caught in Cycle of Decline"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37330>
Posted on July 23, 2012 9:00 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37330> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Front-page NYT article
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/us/politics/california-republicans-seek-a-turnaround.html?_r=1&ref=politics>.
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"The Politics of Anything Goes" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37328>
Posted on July 23, 2012 8:59 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37328> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Tom Edsall's latest
<http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/the-politics-of-anything-goes/?ref=politics>
is worth reading.
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"Wake County NC Facing Tight Budgets, Tough Decisions as November
Election Approaches" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37324>
Posted on July 23, 2012 8:42 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37324> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A ChapinBlog
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2012/07/tight_budgets_tough_decisions.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HHHElections+%28The+Election+Aacdemy%29>.
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"Bill Daley Asks: Is Obama Campaign Ready for Recounts?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37322>
Posted on July 23, 2012 8:40 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37322> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Daily Beast reports
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/23/bill-daley-asks-is-obama-campaign-ready-for-recounts.html>.
What would a 2012 presidential election overtime look like? I argue in
the last chapter of The Voting Wars
<http://www.amazon.com/Voting-Wars-Florida-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300182031/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1329286945&sr=1-2-catcorr>
that it would be much worse than Florida 2000.
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recounts <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>, The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off
"Can vouchers fix campaign finance?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37319>
Posted on July 23, 2012 8:37 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37319> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo's WonkBlog
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/22/can-vouchers-fix-campaign-finance/>:
"On Friday, I noted
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/20/beyond-the-disclose-act-what-else-could-congress-do-on-campaign-finance/>that
a number of campaign finance experts, including Yale's Bruce Ackerman
and Ian Ayres and Harvard's Larry Lessig, support a voucher system in
which every eligible voter has a $50 voucher or tax credit to donate to
a campaign of his or her choice. In exchange, campaigns either agree to
maintaining donor anonymity to avoid influence peddling (in Ackerman and
Ayres's system) or to only accepting donations of $100 or less (in
Lessig's). The voucher idea has a lot of traction in intellectual
circles, but has thus far proved less popular in legislatures than the
"clean elections" model <http://www.fairelectionsnow.org/about-bill> in
which qualifying campaigns are given matching funds and lump sum grants.
That's about to change. John Sarbanes, a Democratic congressman from
Maryland, is planning on introducing the Grassroots Democracy Act, which
would implement a voucher system for congressional elections."
I spelled out the benefits of vouchers for public financing in a 1996
California Law Review article,Clipping Coupons for Democracy: An
Egalitarian/Public Choice Defense of Campaign Finance Vouchers
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1961263>.
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"Big Romney donors turn to PACs before GOP convention"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37316>
Posted on July 23, 2012 8:32 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37316> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
USA Today:
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-07-22/Romney-donors-fundraising/56424852/1#.UA1pZJaqtiA>
"However, some of Romney's most prolific donors have found another
outlet for their money. Nearly 1 in 10 of the campaign's largest donors
also have contributed to Restore Our Future
<http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Restore+Our+Future>, together
giving nearly $16 million to the pro-Romney super PAC, a USA TODAY
analysis of new campaign-finance reports finds.The findings highlight
the parallel campaign-finance systems operating in this year's
presidential election. Candidates face strict limits on what they can
collect for their campaigns, even as super PACs run by their friends and
former aides raise unlimited sums. The USA TODAY analysis shows that 144
of Romney's top donors gave to Restore Our Future. Thirty-eight of
President Obama's big givers also donated to Priorities USA Action
<http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Priorities+USA+Action>, the
main super PAC aiding him."
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"Citizens United? Don't Worry Your Pretty Heads About It"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37314>
Posted on July 23, 2012 8:31 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37314> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Alec MacGillis at TNR responds
<http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/105256/citizens-united-dont-worry-your-pretty-heads-about-it>
to Matt Bai's piece
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/magazine/how-much-has-citizens-united-changed-the-political-game.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all>.
My response to Bai is here <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37108>.
And another way that CU mattered: Check out John Coates, Corporate
Politics, Governance, and Value Before and After Citizens United
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1973771>.
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"Harry Reid Ready to Alter Filibuster Rules; Majority Leader Could
Use 'Constitutional Option' to Change Rule on Procedural Votes"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37310>
Posted on July 22, 2012 9:05 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37310> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Must-read
<http://www.rollcall.com/issues/58_9/Harry-Reid-Ready-to-Alter-Filibuster-Rules-216330-1.html?pos=hftxt>Roll
Call report. A snippet:
Another senior Democrat, Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller
<http://www.rollcall.com/members/538.html> (W.Va.), said the
filibuster is a useful rule that Democrats may not want to alter if
they return to the minority.
"If the Republicans take over the Senate I think there is going to
be a lot of bills, starting with the repeal of the health care act
... cuts of all kinds that we don't want to have happen and that is
where 60 votes can help you," Rockefeller said.
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"Tech Startups Making Millions Off the Presidential Race"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37307>
Posted on July 22, 2012 7:32 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37307> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg has posted this post, <http://bit.ly/Og3hC4> the first in a
four-part series called: "Making Millionaires: The 2012 Gold Rush,"
examining who is making money off the most expensive presidential
campaign in history.
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"A House Divided: Books About the Tea Party Class of 2010?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37304>
Posted on July 22, 2012 10:54 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37304>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
In the Sunday /NYT Book Review/, Michael Crowley reviews
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/books/review/books-about-the-tea-party-class-of-2010.html?_r=1&ref=bookreviews>
D/o Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives/
By Robert Draper and/It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American
Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism/ By
Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, political parties
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political polarization
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68> | Comments Off
"The fight for early voting in Ohio: Robert F. Bauer"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37301>
Posted on July 22, 2012 10:49 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37301>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bob Bauer oped
<http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/07/the_fight_for_early_voting_in.html>
in Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Why would the state legislature cut back on
in-person early voting for all Ohioans? Legislative error and
carelessness could supply some of the explanation; unfortunately,
partisanship may also have played its part, judging from the attacks on
early voting by Republican-controlled legislatures around the country.
After all, the looming possibility of different deadlines for early
voters, and the likelihood that many voters denied early-voting
opportunities would effectively be disenfranchised, was brought to the
legislature's attention in sworn testimony, but the legislature ignored
it. Whatever its reasons, the Ohio General Assembly forged ahead and
took away in-person early voting for most voters over this critical
three-day period."
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