[EL] CPA/Zicklin

Wed Sep 24 09:03:05 PDT 2014

CPI writes:

"Watch your Netflix show, wear your Ralph Lauren shirt, brew your Keurig coffee and deposit your paycheck at M&T Bank.

Just know that you're patronizing some of the nation's least politically transparent companies,"

What a horrible, impoverished way to live one's life, worrying about the political views and activities of everyone you come into contact with, and using that to decide whether to do business with them.

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

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

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] on behalf of Rick Hasen [rhasen at law.uci.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:16 AM
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Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/24/14

Light Blogging the Next Few Days<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65843>
Posted on September 24, 2014 8:14 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65843> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Back to full strength next week.

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“GOP Candidate Voted In Both Illinois And Wisconsin In The Same Year”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65841>
Posted on September 24, 2014 8:13 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65841> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TPM<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kathy-myalls-vote-illinois-wisconsin>: “The candidate, Kathy Myalls (pictured, left), voted in a primary election in Illinois and three months after that voted in Wisconsin’s recall election aimed at recalling Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker (pictured right), according to the Chicago Sun-Times<http://politics.suntimes.com/article/springfield/state-rep-candidate-voted-illinois-and-wisconsin/mon-09222014-643pm>. Myalls also voted in Wisconsin in the 2012 presidential election. The following spring she came back to Illinois to vote there.”

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Posted in chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, voter registration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>, voting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>
“New CPA-Zicklin Index Flawed”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65839>
Posted on September 24, 2014 8:12 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65839> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CCP release<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2014/09/24/new-cpa-zicklin-index-flawed-2/>.  My earlier coverage is here<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65822>.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
Nathan Sproul Threatens Legal Action Against Brad Blog over Reporting on Registration Irregularities<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65836>
Posted on September 24, 2014 8:10 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65836> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here.<http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10824>

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Posted in chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
“Judge dismisses GOP lawsuit asking that the new model ballot be redesigned before election”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65834>
Posted on September 24, 2014 7:59 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65834> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports.<http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/5ae334b270e843f2ab5c57ff5f95fcf8/WI--Wisconsin-Ballots-Complaint/>

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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“FAN 33 (First Amendment News) What is a PAC? The next big issue?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65832>
Posted on September 24, 2014 7:52 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65832> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ron Collins blogs.<http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2014/09/fan-33-first-amendment-news-what-is-a-pac-the-next-big-issue.html#more-91094>

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“Three reasons why New Zealand has the best-designed government in the world”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65830>
Posted on September 24, 2014 7:50 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65830> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Vox analysis<http://www.vox.com/2014/9/23/6831777/new-zealand-electoral-system-constitution-mixed-member-unicameral/in/5654656>.

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Posted in alternative voting systems<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=63>
“‘Nudge’ Theory and the Gerken Disclosure Proposal”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65828>
Posted on September 24, 2014 7:47 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65828> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer blogs.<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2014/09/nudge-theory-gerken-disclosure-proposal/>

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“Rich on Rich Warfare in U.S. Politics”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65826>
Posted on September 24, 2014 7:45 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65826> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Nice Frank Wilkinson Bloomberg View column<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-09-24/rich-on-rich-warfare-in-u-s-politics>.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Republicans slam Kansas Supreme Court justice over Davis fundraiser at her home”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65824>
Posted on September 23, 2014 9:42 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65824> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

More Kansas news:<http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/election/article2220496.html>

The Kansas Republican Party criticized a Kansas Supreme Court justice Tuesday, saying a fundraiser hosted for Democrat Paul Davis at her Topeka home was inappropriate.

The event, a casual backyard BBQ seeking donations of $20 apiece, raises “numerous ethical questions for both Davis and the Kansas judicial branch,” Republicans said in a release.

Justice Carol Beier, who was appointed to the court in 2003 by former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, said that she was not involved in the planning of the Tuesday fundraiser and would not attend it. The event is hosted by her husband, Richard Green, a teacher.

I wonder if the Kansas Republican Party also believes that Ginny Thomas’s political activities are inappropriate.
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“Study: Major companies are increasingly disclosing their political spending”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65822>
Posted on September 23, 2014 9:36 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65822> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/09/24/major-companies-increasingly-choose-to-disclose-their-political-spending-study-says/>:

Major corporations are increasingly disclosing their political spending this election year, even as some business groups discourage them from doing so, according to a new study set for release Wednesday.

The annual index of corporate political spending by the Center for Political Accountability<http://www.politicalaccountability.net/index.php?ht=d/Home/pid/184> shows that a majority of nearly 200 publicly held companies received higher ratings for disclosure this year compared with 2013.

“More leading companies are establishing political disclosure as a mainstream corporate practice,” said Bruce Freed, president of the group, which conducts the annual survey in conjunction with the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the University of Pennsylvania.

CPI:<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/09/24/15740/secret-politics-pervade-popular-companies>

Watch your Netflix show, wear your Ralph Lauren shirt, brew your Keurig coffee and deposit your paycheck at M&T Bank.

Just know that you’re patronizing some of the nation’s least politically transparent companies, according to a new study<http://k007.kiwi6.com/hotlink/nu51hz9m4i/CPA-Zicklin_Index_-_2014_-_09-16-14.pdf> to be formally released this morning by the nonpartisan Center for Political Accountability<http://www.politicalaccountability.net/index.php?ht=d/sp/i/870/pid/870> and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research<https://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/research/research-centers/the-carol-and-lawrence-zicklin-center-for-business-ethics-research//> at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Twenty of the nearly 300 companies studied didn’t score a single point on the survey’s 70-point scale measuring political disclosure and accountability policies, including Netflix Inc.<https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/02/18/14263/netflix-stacking-deck-capitol-hill>, which produces political thriller “House of Cards,” and K-Cup<http://c1.soap.com/images/products/p/zqb/zqb-025_1z.jpg>maker Keurig Green Mountain Coffee, which says it uses<http://www.greenmountaincoffee.com/Our-Story/csr/index.shtml> the “power of business to make the world a better place.”

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“Nebraska Republican Party Allowed to Substitute New Lieutenant Governor Candidate After the September 1 Deadline”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65820>
Posted on September 23, 2014 5:22 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65820> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

BAN reports.<http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/09/nebraska-republican-party-allowed-to-substitute-new-lieutenant-governor-candidate-after-the-september-1-deadline/>

Waiting for the howls of outrage from those upset with the Torricelli and Taylor cases.

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“Nothing to See Here;The one national holiday Republicans want you to forget.”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65818>
Posted on September 23, 2014 5:21 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65818> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jamelle Bouie<http://t.co/ZOetKgzk9L> on National Voter Registration Day.

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Kobach Not Yet Giving Up in Forcing Democrat on #KSSEN Ballot<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65815>
Posted on September 23, 2014 4:12 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65815> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Dave Helling<http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article2217754.html> in the KC Star:

“We think that we could survive if the trigger was pulled Oct. 1,” said an email from Brian Newby, Johnson County election commissioner. “That’s pushing it.”

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said he would inform the district court of the time pressure related to its decision. He hoped to have a ruling by the end of this week.

But outside experts said that isn’t likely. A district court proceeding could involve witnesses, legal arguments and a lengthy appeals process.

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“Election officials ask judge to toss suit over Wisconsin ballot design”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65813>
Posted on September 23, 2014 4:06 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65813> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/wisconsin-election-officials-ask-judge-to-toss-ballots-suit-b99357336z1-276527981.html>:

State election officials asked a judge Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit over the design of the Nov. 4 ballots, saying the campaigns of two Republican lawmakers did not follow proper procedures in bringing their court challenge.

Even if the case is allowed to proceed, the election officials argued, the judge can consider changing the ballots in just four places — Racine, Walworth, Columbia and Jefferson counties. Those who brought the suit can’t argue over the ballots in the state’s 68 other counties because they either don’t represent them or the ballots in those counties don’t include the features that are the subject of their suit, they said.

The filing came a day before Waukesha County Circuit Judge James Kieffer is to hold a hearing to consider whether to order election officials to make changes to the ballots six weeks before the election.

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“In Kansas, Democratic donors invest in uncertainty; Independent Senate candidate Greg Orman coy with caucusing plans”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65811>
Posted on September 23, 2014 4:03 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65811> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CPI reports.<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/09/23/15750/kansas-democratic-donors-invest-uncertainty>

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
WI Judge Recuses Rather than Follows Order to Dismiss Voter ID Challenge<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65809>
Posted on September 23, 2014 3:34 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65809> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Interesting form<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/dane-county-judge-refuses-supreme-court-order-on-voter-id-b99357338z1-276817771.html> of political protest from a sitting judge.

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Posted in Uncategorized<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“SEC Campaign Finance Rules Under Fire”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65807>
Posted on September 23, 2014 3:31 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65807> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jason Abel’s Daily Journal oped<http://www.steptoe.com/assets/htmldocuments/REPRINT%20-%20Daily%20Journal%20OpEd%20-%20Jason%20Abel%20-%202014.8.20.PDF> says the SEC case could head to SCOTUS.

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