[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/14/15

Tue Apr 14 07:06:02 PDT 2015

    On the Trail of Super PAC Money” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71717>

Posted onApril 14, 2015 6:56 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71717>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT editorial. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/opinion/on-the-trail-of-super-pac-money.html?_r=1>

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Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    No Surprise Dept: Obama Admin. Will Continue to Do Nothing on
    Campaign Finance Reform <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71714>

Posted onApril 14, 2015 6:52 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71714>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg BNA 
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=66863052&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0g5b3w2b5&split=0>: 
“The Obama administration has no specific plans to push for stronger 
campaign finance laws as the 2016 presidential election campaign gears 
up with predictions of record spending from candidates, super PACs and 
other organizations, White House spokesman Josh Earnest indicated.”

I will make the case inPlutocrats United 
<http://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-United-Campaign-Distortion-Elections/dp/0300212453/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1429019527&sr=8-3&keywords=plutocrat>that 
President Obama has been an awful President on this issue, probably the 
worst we’ve had since the passage of the FECA.

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Posted incampaign finance 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Plutocrats United 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=104>

    “Conservative group seeks to intervene in chief justice case”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71712>

Posted onApril 14, 2015 6:49 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71712>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/conservative-group-seeks-to-intervene-in-chief-justice-case-b99480582z1-299605981.html>from 
Wisconsin.

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Posted injudicial elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>

    “Vote Buying at Center of Eastern Ky. Judge-Executive Race”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71709>

Posted onApril 13, 2015 5:20 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71709>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports. 
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KY_VOTER_FRAUD_KYOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>

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Posted inchicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>,vote buying 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=43>

    “Hillary Clinton embraces small donors in early fundraising”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71707>

Posted onApril 13, 2015 5:15 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71707>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports. 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-2016-small-donors-early-fundraising-116938.html>

In 2008 and 2012, Obama relied more on small donors than his Republican 
opponents.  One question is whether that will replicate itself in this 
election.  (Clinton and/or the DNC could move to more tiered bundlers 
later on if she’s the (presumptive) general election nominee).  How she 
starts now may change over time as she becomes less worried about being 
seen as big, impervious and presumptuous as a candidate.

I write a bit about the greater Democratic success with small donors 
after 2008 in:

/The Transformation of the Campaign Financing Regime for U.S. 
Presidential Elections/(in The Funding of Political Parties, Keith 
Ewing, Jacob Rowbottom, and Joo-Cheong Tham, eds., Routledge, 2011) and

/The Changing Nature of Campaign Financing for Presidential Primary 
Candidates 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1267312>,/in/Evolution 
and Revolution in the Nominations Process/(Jack Citrin and David Karol 
eds., 2009))

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    “8 Texas soldiers voted via email; program may expand to Fort Bliss,
    Fort Hood” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71705>

Posted onApril 13, 2015 3:25 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71705>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The El Paso Times reports. 
<http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_27903490/8-texas-soldiers-voted-via-email-program-may>

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    “Rapper Pras Michel hit with campaign finance complaint”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71703>

Posted onApril 13, 2015 9:55 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71703>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CPI 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/04/13/17113/rapper-pras-michel-hit-campaign-finance-complaint>:

    Campaign finance watchdogs have filed a complaint with the Federal
    Election Commission against hip-hop musician Pras Michel — one of
    the founders of the Fugees — and a politically active company under
    his control.

    In thenew complaint
    <https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1865625-pras-michel-spm-2012-holdings-llc-complaint.html>,
    the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 argue that Pras violated
    the law by giving money to a super PAC through his company without
    disclosing that he was the source of the funds. Federal lawprohibits
    <https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30122>making political
    donations in someone else’s name, which the groups argue was the
    effect of the corporate contribution.

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    “Ex-lawmakers swing through the revolving door”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71701>

Posted onApril 13, 2015 9:54 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71701>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

USA Today 
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/04/13/former-members-of-congress-lobbying-jobs/25703945/>:

    Nearly one quarter of the lawmakers who left Congress recently are
    working in positions aimed at influencing government policy, even
    though they are barred from lobbying their former colleagues and
    Capitol Hill staff.

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