[EL] 2012 presidential spending by corps and unions

Tue Nov 13 08:26:24 PST 2012

Does anyone have or know where to find current numbers on spending by corporations and unions for the 2012 presidential election? I am doing a presentation on the impact of Citizens United on this year's election tomorrow and the numbers would help.

Thanks.

Richard.

Richard C. Reuben
James Lewis Parks Professor of Law
University of Missouri School of Law
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Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/13/12

“Super PACs Make Move to Lobbying”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44194>
Posted on November 13, 2012 8:19 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44194> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Roll Call reports.<http://www.rollcall.com/news/super_pacs_make_move_to_lobbying-219080-1.html>

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“Outspent Democratic super PAC made dollars count”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44191>
Posted on November 13, 2012 8:04 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44191> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83699.html>

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“2012 Debunked Campaign Finance Fallacies”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44188>
Posted on November 13, 2012 7:56 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44188> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jonathan Tobin writes<http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/11/11/2012-debunked-campaign-finance-fallacies/> for Commentary.

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“The Trouble with City of Boerne, and Why It Matters for the Fifteenth Amendment As Well”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44185>
Posted on November 13, 2012 7:50 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44185> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Evan Tsen Lee has posted this draft <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2170578> on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

The Supreme Court’s test for the constitutionality of state action and its test for the constitutionality of congressional legislation enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment are out of synch with one another. When a plaintiff challenges state action under the Fourteenth Amendment, the degree of scrutiny varies with the type of claim. Racial classifications, for example, are examined under “strict” scrutiny. Most classifications, such as disability, age, or socioeconomic status, are examined on a “rational basis.” When Congress acts pursuant to its Section 5 powers under the Fourteenth Amendment to protect rights, however, the Court has no corresponding spectrum of degrees of scrutiny. In this paper I argue that the Court should adopt the “mirror image” spectrum of scrutiny for congressional enactments pursuant to its Section 5 powers. For example, if Congress seeks to protect people from age discrimination or discrimination based on disability by permitting individuals to sue states without their consent in federal court, the plaintiff should have to show that he or she actually suffered a constitutional violation in the case at bar. If Congress seeks to protect people from race discrimination, the plaintiff should have to show only that there is a rational, “means-end” relationship between the congressional remedy and the targeted discrimination. Applying this test to the Fifteenth Amendment, which prohibits race discrimination in voting, the courts should apply rational, “means-end” scrutiny to statutes such as the Voting Rights Act, including the preclearance condition that is likely to come before the Supreme Court in the near future.

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“A Decision Theory of Statutory Interpretation: Legislative History by the Rules”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44183>
Posted on November 13, 2012 7:49 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44183> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Victoria Nourse has posted this article <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2161858> on SSRN (Yale Law Journal).  Here is the abstract:

We have a law of civil procedure, criminal procedure, and administrative procedure, but we have no law of legislative procedure. This failure has serious consequences in the field of statutory interpretation. Using simple rules garnered from Congress itself, this Article argues that those rules are capable of transforming the field of statutory interpretation. Addressing canonical cases in the field, from Holy Trinity to Bock Laundry, from Weber to Public Citizen, this article shows how cases studied by vast numbers of law students are made substantially more manageable, and in some cases quite simple, through knowledge of congressional procedure. No longer need legislative history always be a search for one’s friends.

Call this a decision theory of statutory interpretation. This approach is based on how Congress does in fact make decisions and thus is a positive theory. Normatively, it has the advantage of privileging text without blinding judges either to relevant information or to their duty to implement Congress’s decisions, including Congress’s own decisionmaking methods. It may also have the side benefit of reducing legislative incentives to manipulate the rules or to engage in strategic behavior to induce particular statutory interpretations.

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“Campaign Finance Disclosure and the Information Tradeoff”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44181>
Posted on November 13, 2012 7:47 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44181> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Michael Gilbert has posted this draft <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2168343> on SSRN (forthcoming, Iowa Law Review). Here is the abstract:

Campaign finance law is in shambles, and American politics, by many accounts, is dominated by wealthy, shadowy interests. Reformers have rested their hopes on disclosure – mandated, public disclosure of what individuals, corporations, super PACs, and others spend on politics. Reformers argue, and the Supreme Court agrees, that disclosure provides valuable information to voters. Opponents, on the other hand, vilify disclosure for chilling speech and infringing speakers’ First Amendment rights. Both positions – disclosure informs voters, disclosure chills speech – have become conventional wisdom.

This paper challenges that wisdom. First, it shows that disclosure does not necessarily inform voters. Rather, it raises an information tradeoff. Revealing sources of speech provides voters with information, but disclosure can also chill speech, and that takes information away – the information contained in the chilled speech. When the second effect outweighs the first, disclosure actually reduces voter information. Second, the paper argues that disclosure does not necessarily chill speech. It can thaw it. By providing potential speakers with information about the positions and credibility of candidates, disclosure can prompt actors to speak when they otherwise would not. When disclosure thaws speech, there is no information tradeoff. Voters gain information in two ways – source revelation, more speech acts – and lose it in none. When disclosure thaws speech, it promotes exactly those First Amendment values it is thought to undermine.

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“Election Academy Receives NSF Grant to Study Pollworkers’ Effect on Election Security”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44178>
Posted on November 13, 2012 7:44 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44178> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Good news <http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2012/11/in_case_you_missed_it_election.php> for Doug Chapin, and for the country.

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With Ham Rove’s Passing Colbert Shuts Down Super PAC<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44175>
Posted on November 13, 2012 7:42 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44175> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The question not answered by this piece <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/13/stephen-colbert-shuts-down-super-pac-2/> is what he’s doing with the money he raised.  Colbert writes on the Super PAC’s website:<http://www.colbertsuperpac.com/> “Due to Ham Rove’s timely passing, I am announcing that Colbert Super PAC is shutting down effective immediately. During this time of mourning, we ask that you respect our privacy, and more importantly, the privacy of our money. It wishes to stay out of the public eye, so please don’t go trying to find it. Rest assured, you won’t. We have a really good lawyer. “

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“Inside absentee, provisional ballot counting”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44172>
Posted on November 13, 2012 7:39 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44172> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This article<http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/11/12/the-inner-workings-of-absentee-provisional-ballot-counting/> appears in Berkeleyside.

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Election Truthers…..Part II<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44169>
Posted on November 13, 2012 7:34 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44169> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The following statement arrived via email:

Voter Fraud in Ohio!

November 12th, 2:15 p.m., Medina, Ohio. The following is a statement from the Ohio Christian Alliance:

In the six days following the November 6th Presidential Election, reports are surfacing from eye witness testimony of our volunteers, poll workers, poll observers, and election officials, detailing a story of widespread voter fraud and in some instances election fraud. The Ohio Christian Alliance, working in cooperation with other nonprofit organizations and a pool of volunteer researchers, will be conducting a detailed investigation of these reports in the coming weeks. We will report to the media, the Ohio Legislature, and the Ohio Secretary of State’s office and the Attorney General of the State of Ohio for possible prosecution of violators of election laws in response to our findings.

OCA President Chris Long made the following statement, “The integrity of the election process is one which the people of the State of Ohio hold in high regard. When that process is violated with voter and election fraud, it diminishes the vote of every properly registered voter in Ohio. It is imperative that these reports be given the full attention they deserve in answering the question – Is our election process fair and is it secure from widespread voter fraud? The evidence that is mounting is undeniable that voter fraud took place this election in Ohio, and that not enough is being done to address the concerns of Ohioans in response to it. These initial reports demand a response of a full investigation from elected officials, the media, and the Attorney General’s office so that the public’s trust can be restored in the election process in Ohio that it is both fair and accurate.”

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SCOTUS Nixes Nix<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44167>
Posted on November 13, 2012 7:32 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44167> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Not a big surprise: the Supreme Court, after agreeing to hear the Shelby County case last week raising the question of the Voting Rights Act section 5′s continuing constitutionality, denied cert. today<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/11/one-voting-rights-case-denied/> in Nix v. Holder, raising similar issues.  There was a big mootness question hanging over the case (the DOJ belatedly granted preclearance in this case), so it was not as good a vehicle as Shelby County to decide the constitutional question.  The facts of the Nix case, however, were somewhat more compelling for plaintiffs than the Shelby County case, and for this reason I think many opponents of section 5 wanted Nix consolidated with Shelby County.

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“Calif. election law creates competition, less predictability”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44164>
Posted on November 12, 2012 8:44 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44164> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

John Myers’ video report<http://www.news10.net/video/default.aspx?bctid=1964472488001&odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cfeatured>.

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“Arizona’s Broken-on-Purpose Election Leaves Race Unresolved”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44160>
Posted on November 12, 2012 8:19 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44160> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Rachel Maddow segment.<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#49798635>

Watch this.

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“Florida’s election season chaos no joking matter”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44157>
Posted on November 12, 2012 8:08 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44157> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Orlando Sentinel editorial.<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-early-voting-chaos-111312-20121112,0,7162806.story>

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“Romney earned zero votes in some urban precincts”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44154>
Posted on November 12, 2012 2:42 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44154> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CBS News reports<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57548626/romney-earned-zero-votes-in-some-urban-precincts/>.

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