[EL] Schmidt and Klein

Thu May 16 15:52:25 PDT 2013

Mark's completely correct--our side does need new talking points.  Why, just today I was reading an op-ed about how our democracy is for sale because of big-money, special interest, fat cat, dark money from the Koch Bros. and Karl Rove and how this shouldn't be the case because corporations are not people and there wasn't anything in it that was as hackneyed or clichéd as "Stewart Mott."

In jest,

Bill  

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Harumph.

Bradley A. Smith

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At least it's a fresh rhetorical move. The one about Eugene McCarthy and Stewart Mott was getting really stale.

Mark Schmitt
Senior Fellow, The Roosevelt Institute<http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/>
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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:50 AM, David Adamany <adamany at temple.edu<mailto:adamany at temple.edu>> wrote:
Brad:  I'm not sure Teddy Roosevelt is a good example.   If memory serves, he was the first president to advocate public funding of campaigns.   Perhaps because of his embarrassment about the sources of his campaign money.   David

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I've always found it ironic that many "reformers" think it inherently good if campaigns are funded like that of George Wallace, and inherently bad if they are funded like that of Teddy Roosevelt.

Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault

   Professor of Law

Capital University Law School

303 E. Broad St.

Columbus, OH 43215

614.236.6317<tel:614.236.6317>

http://law.capital.edu/faculty/bios/bsmith.aspx

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Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/15/13

“In IRS Scandal, Echoes of Watergate”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50387>
Posted on May 14, 2013 9:11 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50387> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

George Will column<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-irs-scandal-carries-echoes-of-watergate/2013/05/13/78f03660-bbf1-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html> which ends with an endorsement, of sorts, for divided government.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off “IRS Sent Same Letter to Democrats That Fed Tea Party Row: Taxes”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50383>
Posted on May 14, 2013 9:03 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50383> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg reports<http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-05-14/irs-sent-same-letter-to-democrats-that-fed-tea-party-row-taxes> [corrected link].

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off “IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50380>
Posted on May 14, 2013 8:51 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50380> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

USA Today<http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2158831>:

In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 90 days, no questions asked.

That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling out Tea Party groups for special treatment. There wouldn’t be another Tea Party application approved for 27 months.

In that time, the IRS approved perhaps dozens of applications from similar liberal and progressive groups, a USA TODAY review of IRS data shows.

As applications from conservative groups sat in limbo, groups with liberal-sounding names had their applications approved in as little as nine months. With names including words like “Progress” or “Progressive,” the liberal groups applied for the same tax status and were engaged in the same kinds of activities as the conservative groups.

The hits just keep on coming.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off “Elections B.C. warns candidates: don’t tweet on election day”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50377>
Posted on May 14, 2013 7:45 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50377> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Canadian election law<http://www.timescolonist.com/cmlink/gmg/canadian-press/news/bc/elections-b-c-warns-candidates-don-t-tweet-on-election-day-1.178225/> more draconian than ours but less than Iran’s<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50223>.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, social media and social protests<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=58> | Comments Off “Md. city lowers voting age for its elections to 16″<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50374>
Posted on May 14, 2013 7:35 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50374> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/md-city-lowers-voting-age-its-elections-16>.

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Posted in voting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31> | Comments Off How Not to Concede Graciously<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50371>
Posted on May 14, 2013 6:55 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50371> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Wow<http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2013/05/14/hear-richard-p-sheridans-vile-voicemail-tirade-after-losing-his-dallas-city-council-election-bid/> (NOT safe for work AT ALL).

h/t Michael Li<https://twitter.com/mcpli/status/334485506719092737>

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Posted on May 14, 2013 6:47 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50368> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Must-read NYT<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/us/politics/report-on-irs-audits-cites-ineffective-management.html?pagewanted=1&hp>:

An inspector general’s report issued Tuesday blamed ineffective Internal Revenue Service management in the failure to stop employees from singling out conservative groups for added scrutiny. Congressional aides, meanwhile, sought to determine whether the Obama administration’s knowledge of the effort extended beyond the I.R.S.

House and Senate aides said they were focusing on an Aug. 4, 2011, meeting in which the I.R.S.’s chief counsel appears to have conferred with agency officials to discuss the activities of a team in the Cincinnati field office that had been subjecting applications for tax-exempt status from Tea Party and other conservative groups to a greater degree of review than other organizations.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off “Lerner’s name on IRS letter to conservative group”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50365>
Posted on May 14, 2013 6:34 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50365> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/lerners-name-on-irs-letter-to-conservative-group-91373.html>: “The director of the Internal Revenue Service division under fire for singling out conservative groups sent a 2012 letter under her name<http://images.politico.com/global/2013/05/14/irs_march_12.html> to one such group, POLITICO has learned.”

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law and election law<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22> | Comments Off Mark Schmitt Responds to Ezra Klein on Small Donors and Campaign Reform<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50363>
Posted on May 14, 2013 6:33 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50363> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here<http://www.nextnewdeal.net/now-we-are-way-too-excited-about-campaign-finance-skepticism>.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> | Comments Off Goldfeder and Perez on Two Pending SCOTUS Voting Cases<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50361>
Posted on May 14, 2013 4:16 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50361> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here<http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202600037421&US_Supreme_Court_Examines_Voting_Rights_in_Two_Cases&slreturn=20130414191521>.

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