[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/13/12

Wed Jun 13 07:58:26 PDT 2012

    "Adelson Gives $10 Million to Pro-Romney Super PAC"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35646>

Posted on June 13, 2012 7:54 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35646> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WSJ's Washington Wire reports 
<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/06/13/adelson-gives-10-million-to-pro-romney-super-pac/>.

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    "The Participation Interest" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35642>

Posted on June 13, 2012 7:44 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35642> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Spencer Overton has writtenthis article 
<http://georgetownlawjournal.org/articles/the-participation-interest/>in 
the latest issue of the /Georgetown Law Journal. /Here is the abstract:

    Lack of participation is a primary problem with money in politics.
    Relatively few people make political contributions---less than
    one-half of one percent of the population provides the bulk of the
    money that politicians collect from individual contributors. This
    Article <http://georgetownlawjournal.org/files/2012/04/Overton.pdf>
    introduces and details the state's interest in expanding citizen
    participation in financing politics. Rather than focus solely on
    pushing an incomplete anticorruption framework to restrict special
    interest influence, reformers should also embrace a strategy of
    giving more people influence. Reformers should accept that money
    produces speech and that "special interests" in the form of
    grassroots organizations are a democratic good that can stimulate
    participation. Increased participation makes government more
    accountable and responsive, and citizens who give even small
    financial contributions are more likely to become vested and
    participate in nonfinancial ways. The Article
    <http://georgetownlawjournal.org/files/2012/04/Overton.pdf> also
    presents policies that allow federal, state, and local legislatures
    to advance the state's interest in participation. Such policies
    include tax credits, donor matching funds, exemptions from
    disclosure for donors of $500 or less, and relaxed restrictions on
    political action committees (PACs) and parties funded by small donors.

This is an important and provocative challenge to the campaign finance 
reform movement.

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    "Florida's Approach to Purging Voter Rolls of Noncitizens Prompts
    Federal Lawsuit" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35639>

Posted on June 13, 2012 7:38 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35639> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/us/justice-department-sues-florida-over-voter-purge.html?_r=1&ref=politics>.

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    "Earmark-Free Bills Push Senators to Get Creative"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35636>

Posted on June 13, 2012 7:34 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35636> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg reports. 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-13/senator-sweetens-farm-bill-for-michigan-growers-in-post-e.html>

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    "Justices may take up Montana campaign finance case addressing
    two-track system" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35633>

Posted on June 13, 2012 7:28 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35633> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The LA Times reports 
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-court-campaign-money-20120613,0,4008070.story>.

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    "DSCC To Dems: Hold Your Nose And Give Money To Super PACs"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35631>

Posted on June 13, 2012 7:26 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35631> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TPM reports 
<http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/dscc-we-need-democrats-to-start-giving-to-super-pacs-like-now.php>.

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    "Axelrod Floats Amendment to Stem Campaign Spending"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35629>

Posted on June 13, 2012 7:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35629> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT's "The Caucus" reports 
<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/axelrod-floats-amendment-to-stem-campaign-spending/?ref=politics>.

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    "Why criminal charges were brought against John Edwards remains
    unclear" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35626>

Posted on June 13, 2012 7:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35626> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

McClatchy reports 
<http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/11/4552745/why-criminal-charges-were-brought.html>.

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    "Jon Stewart Tears Apart FL Gov. Rick Scott's Curiously Targeted
    'Voter Purge'" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35623>

Posted on June 12, 2012 9:25 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35623> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Mediaite reports 
<http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-tears-apart-fl-gov-rick-scotts-curiously-targeted-voter-purge/>. 
As part of the segment, John Oliver interviewed John Fund.

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fraudulent fraud squad <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, The Voting 
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    "Senate primaries in four states set key matchups"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35620>

Posted on June 12, 2012 9:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35620> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-primaries-in-four-states-set-key-matchups/2012/06/12/gJQA0D6cYV_story.html>.

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    "2 Campaigns Chasing Funds at Frantic Pace"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35617>

Posted on June 12, 2012 9:16 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35617> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

  NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/us/politics/for-obama-and-romney-nonstop-fund-raising.html?ref=politics>: 
"With the primary season over, the presidential campaign has entered a 
new phase, one dictated by the competitive realities of the deregulated 
campaign finance system. Having decided not to take public financing for 
the general election, both Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney need to devote much 
of their time to banking the money necessary to fuel their campaigns 
through Election Day. This election cycle marks the completion of a 
gradual shift away from the days when candidates would be able to wrap 
up fund-raising on their own behalf ahead of their conventions in the 
middle of the summer and rely on public financing --- which limits 
candidates to a preset expenditure level --- for the general election."

For my looks back at how this shift happened in 2008, see my chapter, 
The Transformation of the Campaign Financing Regime for U.S. 
Presidential Elections 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1505527>, in The 
Funding of Political Parties 
<http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415580014/> (Keith Ewing, 
Jacob Rowbottom, and Joo-Cheong Tham, eds., Routledge 2011) and More 
Supply, More Demand: The Changing Nature of Campaign Financing for 
Presidential Primary Candidate 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1267312>s.

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    "Tea Party Tries to Sway GOP Platform"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35614>

Posted on June 12, 2012 9:11 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35614> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Roll Call: 
<http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_150/Tea-Party-Tries-to-Sway-GOP-Platform-215301-1.html?pos=htmbtxt> 
"James Bopp Jr., a prominent conservative lawyer and high-ranking 
Republican national committeeman, is helping tea partyers influence the 
official GOP 2012 platform."

The article also reports that Bopp "lost his RNC seat Friday, the result 
of apparent backlash for working to oust six-term GOP Sen. Dick Lugar 
<http://www.rollcall.com/members/188.html> in Indiana's primary last month."

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    "Fixing Citizens United" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35611>

Posted on June 12, 2012 4:26 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35611> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Geoffrey Stone blogs 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/fixing-citizens-united_b_1591231.html> 
at HuffPo.

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    "Justice Department Sues Florida As Voter Battle Intensifies"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35608>

Posted on June 12, 2012 2:42 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35608> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NPR reports. 
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/06/12/154872263/justice-department-sues-florida-as-voter-battle-intensifies>

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