[EL] CLC Head in the Sand

JBoppjr at aol.com JBoppjr at aol.com
Wed Mar 27 06:51:25 PDT 2013



 
In a message dated 3/27/2013 9:50:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
JBoppjr at aol.com writes:

Paul, regarding your questions:
 
(1) my clear recollection is that all of the "campaign reformers" opposed  
raising contribution limits then as now. The increase was not part of the  
original McCain-Feingold but was added by amendment in the Senate.   And, of 
course, after the amendment was adopted,  "reformers" supported  it.
 
(2) As a member of the RNC and as counsel for various non-profits, I am  
familiar with various fundraising methods and their cost and how fundraising  
is progressing with them.
 
(3) I understand that "reformers" support contribution limits because  they 
reduce overall campaign spending, which you ironically try to refute in  
your first post.  Certainly, the amount that the RNC or candidates could  have 
raised with no limits is more that when there are limits. (Prof La Raja  
has corrected your figures and, minus transfers, the RNC has raised less, not  
more, without even considering the effect of increased fundraising  costs). 
 
And no we should not be concerned with overall campaign spending -- most  
people don't even know the name of their Congressman -- and, compared to the 
6  or 7 billion spent on all federal races, we spent 18 billion on credit 
card  late fees, 5 billion on ringtones for cell phones, 25 billion on 
professional  sports, 11 billion on bottled water, 10 billion on romance novels and 
17  billion on video games.
 
Finally, I think candidates and political parties should be central to  
campaigns and election, but current contribution limits artificially distort  
the system by forcing money away from them to independent groups.  So  yes, a 
better system is where candidates and political parties play a  relatively 
dominate role and it takes money to do this.
 
Jim Bopp
 
In a message dated 3/26/2013 6:16:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
PRyan at campaignlegalcenter.org writes:
 
 
Thanks,  Jim.  I have a few thoughts and questions in  response. 
First,  what’s the basis for your assertion that the CLC “opposed raising 
the  contribution limit from $1,000 to $2,000 for candidates in  
McCain-Feingold”?  The McCain-Feingold law was enacted in March  2002.  The CLC wasn’t 
incorporated until January 2002 and took a few  months to get up and 
running.  As far as I know, the CLC didn’t do any  advocacy work with respect to 
the McCain-Feingold law and didn’t oppose the  contribution limit increase.  
On the contrary, once CLC was up and  running, it served as part of the 
legal team representing the law’s  principal Congressional sponsors (McCain, 
Feingold, Shays, Meehan, Snowe,  Jeffords) as defendant-intervenors in 
McConnell v. FEC,  defending the law in its entirety—including the increased 
contribution  limit.  For example, here’s a _link_ 
(http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/attachments/BCRA_MCCAIN_FEINGOLD/McConnell_v_FEC_District_Court/341.pdf) 
  to the section of our district court brief defending the increased  
contribution limit (beginning on p. 208).  Is there some CLC history  that I’m 
unaware of? 
Second,  regarding national party fundraising, I relied on data reported by 
the  parties to the FEC for the piece I wrote for the CLC blog.  You 
dismiss  the fact that parties have continually raised more and more money  
post-McCain-Feingold, asserting that these data don’t matter because even  though “
national political parties ‘raised more money,’ they had less money  to s
pend on politics.”  I’m open to this possibility; will you point me  to the 
data you’re relying on for your analysis?  You lament the cost  of prospect 
mail, other direct mail and telemarketing—old-school forms of  fundraising—
while the RNC’s report describes “direct mail prospecting” as  “low cost.” 
 What does your data show about the use of even less  expensive 
Internet-based fundraising techniques?  Does your data show  differences in fundraising 
strategies and costs between parties?  Is  Internet-based fundraising on 
the rise?  How does the RNC’s plan to  “significantly work to grow its 
digital fundraising efforts” impact your  analysis? 
Third,  I’m happy to read your acknowledgement that “relative influence” 
matters  when it comes to money in politics.  For years I’ve thought you  
objected to any public interest in a level campaign finance playing field,  but 
in your email today you explain that what matters is “the total spending  
in each [election] and the national parties share.”  You complain that  the “
national political parties are not keeping pace so their relative  
influence has declined.”  Shouldn’t we also be concerned about the  total spending 
in each election and the average person’s share, because the  average person 
is not keeping pace with wealthy donors and the average  person’s relative 
influence has declined?  Of course, the average  person can’t afford to make 
a contribution anywhere close to the current  $32,400 limit on 
contributions to national party committees, so it’s  difficult to imagine how repealing 
the limit would increase the “relative  influence” of the average person. 
Best, 
 
Paul  Seamus Ryan 
Senior  Counsel 
The  Campaign Legal Center 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:48  AM
To: rhasen at law.uci.edu; law-election at uci.edu
Subject:  [EL] CLC Head in the Sand

 
Regarding the recent  press release from the CLC, which should have be 
entitled "CLC Keeps its  Head in the Sand, no matter what":
 
_“GOP Heading Back to the  Future”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48718)  
 
Posted  on _March 25,  2013 1:06 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48718)  
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_Paul  Ryan_ 
(http://www.clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=513:gop-heading-back-to-the-future)  of CLC: 
Last week  the Republican National Committee published its _Growth & 
Opportunity  Project report_ (http://growthopp.gop.com/default.aspx)  “provid[ing] 
an honest review of the 2012 election  cycle and a path forward for the 
Republican Party to ensure success in  winning more elections.” When it comes 
to campaign finance policy, the RNC  apparently believes that the path 
forward is a journey back in time to the  pre-McCain-Feingold era, claiming that “
the free speech rights of  political parties and federal candidates remain 
smothered by  McCain-Feingold” and recommending that a variety of 
contribution limits  applicable to political party committees and federal candidates be 
 repealed or increased. 
Contrary  to the RNC’s claim that the party’s free speech rights have been 
 “smothered by McCain-Feingold,” the party raised more money during the  
2012 election cycle than ever before. According to the Center for  Responsive 
Politics, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party _each  raised more 
than $1 billion during the 2012 cycle_ 
(http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/index.php?cmte=&cycle=2012) , shattering previous  fundraising totals both 
pre- and post-McCain Feingold. With regard to  fundraising, the parties seem 
to be doing just fine under existing  limits.


 
 
There are so many  errors and so little time:
 

 
(1) CLC compares  apples and oranges. The cost of fundraising is much less 
for high dollar  than low dollar fundraising.  What is important is the net. 
  Prospect mail generally does not pay for itself but it is expensive  and 
runs up the total expenses by the group with no net money to  spend.  
Raising money from small donors by direct mail and  telemarketing is also 
expensive.  So while national political  parties "raised more money," they had less 
money to spend on  politics.
 

 
(2) The proper  comparison is not with the national party spending from 
election cycle to  election cycle but the total spending in each and the 
national parties  share.  Of course, this amount is skyrocketing, mainly as a 
result of  Super PAC (see other CLC press releases).  The national political  
parties are not keeping pace so their relative influence has declined.   Same 
with candidates.
 

 
(3) Of course, it  would be worse if the CLC got its way.  They opposed 
raising the  contribution limit from $1,000 to $2,000 for candidates in 
McCain-Feingold  screaming that we would be awash in candidates selling their 
votes.  Of  course that has not happened, just like in states without any 
contribution  limits at all.  After all, you cannot even buy a Democrat Congressman 
 for $2,500 these days. The anecdotal evidence is $99,000 in cold hard cash 
 (Congressman Jefferson) to $140,000 (Duke Cunningham) to at least buy  one.
 

 
(4) Finally, CLC  also says that large contributions to Super PACs are 
corrupting so in their  universe there is corruption either way. But voters 
cannot vote against  Super PACs but can vote against candidates or candidates of 
a  particular political party.  So at least if we raise candidate and  
political party contribution limits, if CLC is right, then voters can at  least 
vote against them.
 

 
Jim  Bopp
 

 
In a message dated  3/26/2013 11:06:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_rhasen at law.uci.edu_ (mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu)   writes:

 
_“Same-sex marriage: Court on  the couch”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48742)  
 
Posted  on  _March  26, 2013 8:05 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48742) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
I  have written _this  piece_ 
(http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/03/26/same-sex-marriage-court-on-the-couch/)  for Reuters Opinion.  It 
begins: 
Will  Justice Anthony Kennedy’s support for a constitutional right to gay  
marriage doom the constitutionality of affirmative action and a key  
provision of the Voting Rights Act?  To answer this question, legal  scholars need 
to know less about constitutional law and more about human  psychology. 
Consider   last year, when Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, for 
example,  surprisingly sided with the court’s four liberal members _in  
upholding President Barack Obama’s healthcare law_ 
(http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/document/Natl_Federation_of_Independent_Business_v_Sebelius_No_Nos_1139
3_1)  against  constitutional challenge. It was a stunning choice for the 
conservative  jurist. The reaction of _Nate  Persily_ 
(http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Nathaniel_Persily) , a leading U.S. election law scholar, was: “
There goes the  Voting Rights Act.” 
At  first, the connection between the two cases may seem tenuous. They don’
t  involve the same issues. The healthcare case was based on Congress’s  
power to regulate commerce and to tax. In _Shelby County v.  Holder_ 
(http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/shelby-county-v-holder/?wpmp_switcher=deskt
op) , heard last month and expected to be decided in  June, the court is 
considering whether Congress’s power to enforce equal  rights, especially in 
voting, includes the power to continue federal  oversight of elections in 
certain states that have a history of racial  discrimination. 
But  Persily’s observation seems correct, and it illustrates how Supreme  
Court watchers often use amateur psychoanalysis of the justices. For  
example, a chief justice, feeling constrained by public opinion or  concerned about 
the court’s legacy, may give in on one case in order to  gain more 
political capital to spend on another controversial  case.
 
 
 
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Posted  in  _Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29) , _Voting 
Rights Act_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15)   |  Comments Off  

 
_“Split Senate backs bill  reining in ‘dark money’”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48739)  
 
Posted  on  _March  26, 2013 7:31 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48739) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_The  latest_ 
(http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/state_government/legislature/article_62d85030-95c5-11e2-bd38-001a4bcf887a.html)  from Montana. 
 
 
 
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&description=) 


 
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_“McDonnell signs bill requiring  photo ID for voting”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48736)  
 
Posted  on  _March  26, 2013 7:27 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48736) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_Richmond  Times Dispatch: “_ 
(http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/latest-news/mcdonnell-signs-bill-requiring-photo-id-for-voting/article_03e9445c-9611-11
e2-b05d-0019bb30f31a.html) Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed legislation 
requiring  voters to present photo ID at the polls.” 
The  law now requires approval from DOJ or a court under section 5 of the  
Voting Rights Act. 
 
 
 
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&description=) 


 
Posted  in  _election administration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18) 
, _The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60) , _voter id_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9) , _Voting Rights Act_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15)   |  Comments Off  

 
_“Ex-lawmakers go to  lobbying-related jobs”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48733)  
 
Posted  on  _March  26, 2013 7:23 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48733) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_USA  Today reports_ 
(http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/03/25/former-lawmakers-lobbying-jobs/2011325/) . 
 
 
 
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Posted  in  _legislation and  legislatures_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27) , _lobbying_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28)  |  Comments Off  

 
_“Public Citizen Applauds 70  Members of Congress Who Urge the SEC to 
Require Disclosure of Corporate  Political Spending”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48730)  
 
Posted  on  _March  25, 2013 4:50 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48730) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
The  following statement from Lisa Gilbert of Public Citizen arrived via  
email: 
Public  Citizen applauds the 70 members of the U.S. House of 
Representatives,  led by Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Michael Capuano (D-Mass.), who 
 sent _a  letter_ 
(http://www.citizen.org/documents/sec-corporate-political-disclosure-letter.pdf)  to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 
today urging  it to follow through on its stated agenda and require disclosure 
of  political spending by corporations. 
Since  the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election  
Commission decision, corporations have been able to spend money  freely on 
elections, and often do so by giving funds to “dark money”  organizations not 
required to disclose the identities of their donors.  But investors have a right 
to know how their money – a corporation’s  profits –– is being spent. The 
trouble is, there is no requirement that  companies share this information. 
The  letter stated: 
“Some  companies have taken the initiative to publicly disclose their 
political  spending which illustrates not only the ease with which it can be  
accomplished but also the acceptance of many prominent and large  corporations. 
Unfortunately, however, other companies have kept their  shareholders in 
the dark and unaware that their money could be funding  political activities, 
or even political attack ads. The rights of  shareholders must be protected.”
 
The  SEC has received a record-breaking deluge of 490,000 comments urging  
disclosure of political spending. In addition, a Zogby International  poll 
commissioned by the Center for Economic Development found that 77  percent of 
business leaders said that corporations should disclose all  of their 
direct and indirect political expenditures. The SEC has taken  the public and 
investor demand for greater disclosure into account and  has begun to consider 
a rulemaking in response. 
These  members of Congress have it right; the SEC can and should move this 
rule  forward. It is critical both for democracy and the rights of the  
marketplace investor.
 
 
 
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pending”&description=) 


 
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_“‘Battleground Texas’ Still  Many Years Away”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48727)  
 
Posted  on  _March  25, 2013 4:44 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48727) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_This  item_ 
(http://www.fairvote.org/battleground-texas-still-many-years-away#.UVDhCxm9azs)  appears at the FairVote blog. 
 
 
 
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&description=) 


 
Posted  in  _political parties_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25) , 
_political polarization_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68)   |  Comments Off  

 
_“3 things Beavers’ trial  revealed about Illinois political cash”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48723)  
 
Posted  on  _March  25, 2013 1:10 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48723) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_WBEZ  reports_ 
(http://www.wbez.org/3-things-beavers-trial-revealed-about-illinois-political-cash-106264) . 
 
 
 
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%20trial%20revealed%20about%20Illinois%20political%20cash”&description=) 


 
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_“Arkansas governor vetoes bill  requiring voters to show photo 
identification at polls”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48721)   
 
Posted  on  _March  25, 2013 1:09 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48721) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_AP  reports_ 
(http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/9b7706356bfd46d5b3b166a668ad58ae/AR--Arkansas-Voter-ID) . 
 
 
 
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Arkansas%20governor%20vetoes%20bill%20requiring%20voters%20to%20show%20photo%20identification%20at%20polls”&description=) 


 
Posted  in  _election administration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18) 
, _The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60) , _voter id_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9)  |  Comments Off  

 
_“GOP Heading Back to the  Future”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48718)  
 
Posted  on  _March  25, 2013 1:06 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48718) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_Paul  Ryan_ 
(http://www.clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=513:gop-heading-back-to-the-future)  of CLC: 
Last  week the Republican National Committee published its _Growth & 
Opportunity  Project report_ (http://growthopp.gop.com/default.aspx)  “provid[ing] 
an honest review of the 2012 election  cycle and a path forward for the 
Republican Party to ensure success in  winning more elections.”  When it comes 
to campaign finance policy,  the RNC apparently believes that the path 
forward is a journey back in  time to the pre-McCain-Feingold era, claiming that “
the free speech  rights of political parties and federal candidates remain 
smothered by  McCain-Feingold” and recommending that a variety of 
contribution limits  applicable to political party committees and federal candidates 
be  repealed or increased. 
Contrary  to the RNC’s claim that the party’s free speech rights have been 
 “smothered by McCain-Feingold,” the party raised more money during the  
2012 election cycle than ever before.  According to the Center for  
Responsive Politics, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party _each  raised more 
than $1 billion during the 2012 cycle_ 
(http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/index.php?cmte=&cycle=2012) , shattering  previous fundraising totals both 
pre- and post-McCain Feingold.   With regard to fundraising, the parties seem 
to be doing just fine under  existing limits.
 
 
 
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_political parties_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25)   |  Comments Off  

 
_“Hiroshima Court Rules Election  Invalid”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48716)  
 
Posted  on  _March  25, 2013 1:05 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48716) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_WSJ_ 
(http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/03/25/hiroshima-court-rules-election-invalid/) :  “In a landmark ruling Monday, a Hiroshima court ruled 
the results of  the December lower-house election invalid in two districts 
due to the  disproportionate weighting of votes in those  districts.” 
 
 
 
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_“Equal Protection Challenge to  Virginia’s Felony Disenfranchisement 
Provision Survives Summary  Judgment”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48714)  
 
Posted  on  _March  25, 2013 1:04 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48714) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_State  of Elections_ 
(http://electls.blogs.wm.edu/2013/03/25/equal-protection-challenge-to-virginias-felony-disenfranchisement-survives-summary-judgmen
t/) : “The US District Court for the Eastern District of  Virginia on 
Friday _granted_ 
(http://electls.blogs.wm.edu/files/2013/03/El-Amin-Opinion-2.pdf)  the  State’s summary judgment motion on substantive and procedural  due 
process challenges to Virginia’s voter reinstatement process for  convicted 
felons, as well as an Eight Amendment challenge to the  disenfranchisement of 
felons as cruel and unusual punishment. The court  did, however, deny 
summary judgment on El-Amin’s Equal Protection  challenge of lifetime felon 
disenfranchisement in  Virginia.” 
 
 
 
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s%20Felony%20Disenfranchisement%20Provision%20Survives%20Summary%20Judgment”&description=) 


 
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_“What secret e-mails from Enron  teach us about influencing politicians”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48712)  
 
Posted  on  _March  25, 2013 1:02 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48712) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
_Interesting  post_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/24/what-secret-e-mails-from-enron-teach-us-about-influencing-politicians/?h
pid=z4)  at WonkBlog by Dan Hopkins. 
 
 
 
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What%20secret%20e-mails%20from%20Enron%20teach%20us%20about%20influencing%20politicians”&description=) 


 
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_legislation and  legislatures_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27) , _lobbying_ 
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_“The Voting Rights Act should  be left alone”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48710)  
 
Posted  on  _March  25, 2013 1:00 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48710) 
 by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   
 
Gregory  Craig has written _this  WaPo oped_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gregory-b-craig-the-voting-rights-act-should-be-left-alone/2013/03/
22/ee5fc8a4-8bf2-11e2-9f54-f3fdd70acad2_story.html) . 
 
 
 
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