[EL] Kmiec campaign and disclosues

[Smith, Brad]

It appears that the Kmiec campaign has updated its website, as request for the required information is now quite apparent.

It is clear that they share many of the common public misperceptions of Citizens United. For example, the page also says, "We do not accept corporate monies, even as they have been erroneously permitted by a slight majority of the Supreme Court in citizens United overruling close to 100 years of precedent."

Of course, "corporate monies" are not still permitted to candidate campaigns, and 20 years of precedent isn't, in most people's books, even close to 100 years of precedent.

Beyond that, I note that the campaign prides itself on being an "all-volunteer" effort and notes that it has no salaried personnel. That should be a source of pride. Unfortunately, in today's world of campaign finance regulation, it is also pretty difficult to do, which is why you make mistakes like not requesting legally required information.

As an admirer of Doug Kmiec, I wish them luck. I suspect that by the end of the campaign these doughty  volunteers will have concluded, as so similarly situated, idealistic efforts before them have, that the campaign finance regulation they think they like now is really part of the problem, not the solution, and part of what prevents, not facilitates, campaigns like this one.


Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault

   Professor of Law

Capital University Law School

303 E. Broad St.

Columbus, OH 43215

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

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“Kmiec For Congress Now Accepting Donations Without Any Disclosures”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59162>
Posted on February 28, 2014 7:44 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59162> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Hmmm<http://joshblackman.com/blog/2014/02/28/kmiec-for-congress-now-accepting-donations-without-any-disclosures/>….

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