[EL] Freedom Caucus to Battle McConnell on Campaign Finance

Wed Dec 2 08:44:56 PST 2015

Do people expect the party committees to start making coordinated
expenditures in primaries, perhaps against House Freedom Caucus members?  I
think that would be a departure from their usual practices.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Svoboda, Brian (Perkins Coie) <
BSvoboda at perkinscoie.com> wrote:

> This is not the first time that some within the new ideological right (for
> lack of a better phrase) have aligned with the reform community on a
> regulatory issue. Tea Party groups were vocal and arguably quite
> consequential in seeing that the new Republican House majority in 2010 did
> not deauthorize the Office of Congressional Ethics. See
> http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/129855-ohio-tea-party-splits-with-boehner-on-ethics.
> I recognize that internal policing in the House and Senate raises entirely
> different issues than campaign finance regulation. But a common thread
> running through both issues is skepticism about incumbent self-dealing
> (see, e.g.,
> http://hotair.com/archives/2012/12/31/office-of-congressional-ethics-could-soon-be-silenced-by-those-it-investigates/).
> I wonder whether, in some cases, virulent anti-incumbent attitudes may
> trump (no pun intended) ideological beliefs about the proper scope of
> government regulation.
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> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:
> law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] *On Behalf Of *Rick Hasen
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 02, 2015 10:57 AM
> *To:* law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Freedom Caucus to Battle McConnell on Campaign Finance
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> I'm surprised because of the ideological valence of the issue. That is, I
> expect members of the "Freedom Caucus" to support full deregulation of the
> campaign finance process.
>
> (I'm also skeptical of some of the arguments about polarization and
> campaign finance you make in your book, but that is an issue for another
> time.)
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> On 12/2/15 7:54 AM, Ray La Raja wrote:
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> Rick, regarding the news that they Freedom Caucus is opposed to
> McConnell’s bid to loosen party financing, why are you surprised (as you
> note at your blog)?   Channeling more money through the parties should
> diminish the clout of partisan factions at the extremes because it
> strengthens the hand of party leadership.  This is exactly the point Brian
> Schaffner and I make in our recent book, "Campaign Finance and Political
> Polarization: When Purists Prevail”
> https://www.press.umich.edu/4882255/campaign_finance_and_political_polarization
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