[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/14/14

Mon Apr 14 07:24:54 PDT 2014

    "Candidate Shriver wants overhaul of L.A. County campaign finance
    laws" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60461>

Posted on April 14, 2014 7:23 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60461>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LA Times 
<http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-supes-campaign-finance-20140414,0,5513146.story#axzz2ys2PPBBF>:

    Bobby Shriver, the first Los Angeles County supervisorial contender
    in 18 years to opt out of voluntary campaign spending limits, is
    calling for a major overhaul of county election laws, including
    lifting fundraising restrictions on candidates who use personal
    wealth to help pay for their campaigns.

    Last month, the Santa Monica lawyer and nonprofit director
    contributed $300,000 of his own money to his effort to succeed
    longtime west county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky
    <http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/zev-yaroslavsky-PEPLT007600.topic>.
    Shriver, a member of the Kennedy political family, criticized a
    $1.4-million voluntary spending limit in the June 3 primary as
    inadequate to get his message out to 2 million constituents.

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    Bauer on the Fights at the FEC <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60459>

Posted on April 14, 2014 7:19 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60459>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. <http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2014/04/rows-fec/>

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election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>

    "Editorial: Dark money vultures pick away at Missouri's legislative
    carcass" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60457>

Posted on April 14, 2014 7:15 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60457>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
<http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/article_6151ae2a-ff97-53e8-a64d-1d3527237862.html>.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    David Keating on WSJ Opinion Journal about Delaware Disclosure Case
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60455>

Posted on April 14, 2014 7:14 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60455>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Watch. 
<http://live.wsj.com/video/opinion-the-first-state-free-speech-win/CB1AEAF0-D6A3-4D95-8255-5C02C118DB5B.html#%21CB1AEAF0-D6A3-4D95-8255-5C02C118DB5B>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    "Walker Asks WI Supreme Court to Review John Doe Dark Money Probe"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60451>

Posted on April 14, 2014 7:13 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60451>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here 
<http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12448/walker-asks-wi-supreme-court-review-john-doe-dark-money-probe>.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    Brit Hume, George Will, and Rest of All-White Panel Discuss Racism,
    Voting Rights and the Obama Administration on FOX News Sunday
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60449>

Posted on April 13, 2014 8:02 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60449>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Transcript 
<http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace/2014/04/13/did-kathleen-sebelius-have-go-will-doj-pursue-criminal-charges-against-lois-lerner>. 
A few snippets from the uncorrected transcript:

    *WILL:* Sure. Look, liberalism has a kind of Tourette's syndrome
    these days. It's just constantly saying the word "racism" and
    "racist." It's an old saying in the law. If you have a law on your
    side, argue the law, if you have the facts on your side, argue the
    facts. If you have neither, pound the table. This is pounding the
    table. There is a kind of intellectual poverty now. Liberalism
    hasn't had a new idea since the 1960s except ObamaCare and the
    country doesn't like it. Foreign policy is a shambles from Russia to
    Iran to Syria to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And recovery is
    unprecedentedly bad. So what do you do? You say anyone who
    criticizes us is a racist. It's become a joke among young people.
    You go to a campus where this kind of political correctness reins,
    and some young person will say looks like it's going to rain. The
    person listening says, you're a racist. I mean it's so
    inappropriate. The constant implication of this that it is, I think,
    becoming a national mirth....

    *HUME:* Chris, Chris, what the president said there about what they
    call voter suppression and others call voter I.D. laws should not go
    unremarked on. These are (ph) a better example of the distrust
    between the two sides --- liberals versus conservatives in this
    country than that issue. The idea that people should be able to
    (INAUDIBLE) identify themselves as legitimate voters when they go to
    the polls has overwhelming support in the public. We see voter I.D.
    cards in places like Afghanistan. And yet in this country from the
    president's podium we hear it argued that these are efforts --- not
    efforts to keep illegitimate voters out of the polls or an effort to
    keep people from voting. It is --- it is ...

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    "Supreme Court ruling sets off race for bigger donations"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60447>

Posted on April 13, 2014 7:55 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60447>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fredreka Schouten reports 
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/13/political-parties-donors-push-for-bigger-donations-after-supreme-court-mccutcheon-ruling/7650243/> 
for /USA Today./

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    WSJ Profiles Travis Crum and His Yale Piece on the VRA Pocket
    Trigger <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60445>

Posted on April 13, 2014 7:52 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60445>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303887804579499704059446402>

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Posted in Voting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

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