[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/29/13

Mon Apr 29 07:37:52 PDT 2013

    "Make AG an Election Watchdog" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49672>

Posted on April 29, 2013 7:36 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49672> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jerry Goldfeder oped 
<http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Make-AG-an-election-watchdog-4470667.php>.

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    "Campaign Contributions from Corporate Executives in Lieu of
    Political Action Committees" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49670>

Posted on April 29, 2013 7:35 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49670> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brian Kelleher Richter and Timothy Werner have posted this draft 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2237685> on SSRN.  
Here is the abstract:

    To distance themselves from the specter of special-interests, some
    Congressional candidates instituted personal bans on campaign
    contributions from corporate-linked political action committees
    (PACs). We leverage these to identify how corporate executives adapt
    their personal campaign contribution patterns in response to
    restrictions applied only to corporate-linked PACs but not to
    executives as individuals. In a newly constructed dataset, with
    6,803,661 observations, that includes all executive-firm-candidate
    contribution pairs for active S&P500 firms over an 18-year period,
    we find that corporate executives increase personal giving to
    specific candidates in lieu of their corporate-linked PACs in a form
    of cross-actor substitution among corporate-linked sources of
    campaign contributions. This finding has important implications for
    regulatory design in scenarios where cross-actor substitution is
    possible. Vis-à-vis campaign finance regulation, it suggests that
    bans on corporate-linked PAC contributions alone cannot prevent
    corporate-linked money from finding its way into candidates'
    campaign coffers.

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    "Wyden and Murkowski have a bill to fight super PACs. Does it go far
    enough?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49667>

Posted on April 29, 2013 7:32 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49667> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WonkBlog 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/27/wyden-and-murkowski-have-a-bill-to-fight-super-pacs-does-it-go-far-enough/>.

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    "Should Voter E-mails Be Private? Florida House Says Yes"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49664>

Posted on April 29, 2013 7:23 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49664> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A ChapinBlog 
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2013/04/should_voter_e-mails_be_privat.php>.

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    "McCrory replaces elections board"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49661>

Posted on April 28, 2013 10:05 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49661> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

McClatchy 
<http://www.journalnow.com/news/state_region/article_87c60628-afa4-11e2-922d-0019bb30f31a.html>:

    RALEIGH --- Gov. Pat McCrory announced late Friday that he was
    replacing all members of the State Board of Elections as of
    Wednesday, just as an investigation into political contributions
    made to McCrory and other top Republicans' officeholders' campaigns
    is getting underway....

    McCrory spokeswoman Kim Genardo said the timing of the appointments
    had nothing to do with the investigation. All five members' terms
    expire April 30, and McCrory's office wants new appointments to be
    made on time.

    The governor selects members from a list of five candidates
    submitted by each party. McCrory selected the top two Democrats,
    Genardo said.

    Leake, who has been on the board for 20 years and chairman for 16,
    said that he and current member Robert Cordle were on the list
    submitted by the state Democratic chair.

    But Leake also dismissed the idea that the timing was motivated by
    the investigation.

    "I don't believe that to be the case, no," he said. "I believe that
    we would all have been replaced regardless."

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The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off

    "In a First, Black Voter Turnout Rate Passes Whites"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49659>

Posted on April 28, 2013 9:42 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49659> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP 
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/04/28/us/politics/ap-us-the-tipping-point-minority-voters.html?ref=politics&_r=0>: 
"America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 
2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first 
time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which 
blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home."

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Posted in voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>, Voting Rights Act 
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    "The Corporate Lobbying Proxy War "
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49656>

Posted on April 28, 2013 9:34 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49656> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WSJ editiorial: 
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323809304578430991458829304.html>"It's 
corporate proxy season, which can only mean more political pressure on 
companies to stop spending money on politics. This year the plan of Big 
Labor and the George Soros-funded Center for Political Accountability is 
pressuring business to disclose all spending related to politics as well 
as to lobby the Securities and Exchange Commission to force companies to 
do so."

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    "Join Us Tuesday to Discuss the Future of the Federal Election"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49654>

Posted on April 28, 2013 9:32 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49654> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CREW 
<http://www.citizensforethics.org/blog/entry/tuesday-panel-discuss-future-of-the-federal-election-commission-fec> 
puts together an event with an all-star cast:

Opening remarks will be delivered by Professor Spencer Overton, Director 
of the George Washington University Political Law Studies Initiative.
*Panelists include:*

  * Richard Briffault, Columbia Law School
  * Laurence E. Gold, Trister, Ross, Schadler & Gold
  * Lawrence M. Noble, Americans for Campaign Reform
  * Bradley A. Smith, Capital University Law School
  * Scott E. Thomas, Dickstein Shapiro
  * Eric Wang, Americans for Prosperity

The panel will be moderated by CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan and 
William McGinley of Patton Boggs.

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    "O'Connor questions court's decision to take Bush v. Gore"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49651>

Posted on April 28, 2013 10:06 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49651> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Chicago Tribune: 
<http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-75668513/>

    Looking back, O'Connor said, she isn't sure the high court should
    have taken the case.

    "It took the case and decided it at a time when it was still a big
    election issue," O'Connor said during a talk Friday with the Tribune
    editorial board. "Maybe the court should have said, 'We're not going
    to take it, goodbye.'"

    The case, she said, "stirred up the public" and "gave the court a
    less-than-perfect reputation."

    "Obviously the court did reach a decision and thought it had to
    reach a decision," she said. "It turned out the election authorities
    in Florida hadn't done a real good job there and kind of messed it
    up. And probably the Supreme Court added to the problem at the end
    of the day."

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