[EL] Congressional candidate caught in bed with head of super PAC

[Thomas J. Cares]

I'm surprised it's not already commonplace for candidates' spouses or
serious romantic partners to run super pacs. (Is that explicitly illegal?)

The email may be very well done in a predictive capacity. I would not be
surprised if close romantic partners start to run candidates' super pacs.
If there's nothing illegal about a spouse doing it, it may be harder to
prosecute because of spousal privilege.

An impassioned Trump/Hillary contest may inspire a civil war.

But really, the Senate continuing to not consider a SCOTUS nominee
indefinitely does seem plausible. I could see Republicans liking the idea
of a split court that can't overrule a State Supreme Court or a
conservative circuit. If dems never get a filibuster-proof 60, there might
be 8 until there are 7.

And I would imagine at least 1 person with a funny name or accent in a red
state will be treated badly, for those reasons, when trying to vote.

On Friday, April 1, 2016, Sean Parnell <sean at impactpolicymanagement.com>
wrote:

> I’m not sure what it says about me, but my first reaction was “Hey, San
> Dimas – their high school football team rules
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgAGkxAtzIg>, right?”
>
>
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:
> law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] *On Behalf Of *Rick Hasen
> *Sent:* Friday, April 1, 2016 10:22 AM
> *To:* law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Congressional candidate caught in bed with head of
> super PAC
>
>
>
> :-)
>
> On 4/1/16 9:13 AM, Craig Holman wrote:
>
> Every April 1, Rick reminds me that I am utterly devoid of a sense of
> humor. Last April Fool's Day, I was furiously researching the court
> decision that Rick blogged about which declared that bribery is a First
> Amendment right -- futilely, of course. This April Fool's I was researching
> a coordination complaint about a candidate in bed with the head of a super
> PAC.
>
>
>
> Craig Holman, Ph.D.
> Government Affairs Lobbyist
> Public Citizen
> 215 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
> Washington, D.C. 20003
> T-(202) 454-5182
> C-(202) 905-7413
> F-(202) 547-7392
> Holman at aol.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>
> To: law-election <law-election at UCI.edu>
> Sent: Fri, Apr 1, 2016 8:51 am
> Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/1/16
> “Congressional Candidate Caught in Bed with Head of Supportive Super PAC”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81422>
>
> Posted on April 1, 2016 5:46 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81422> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Roll Call HOH <https://youtu.be/5JV_hzOdoSU>:
>
> *A congressional candidate running for office in San Dimas, California was
> found naked in bed in a hotel room with the head of a supportive Super PAC,
> after hotel security responded to calls of loud noises emanating from the
> room.*
>
> *While the candidate’s spokesperson did not deny that the candidate was
> caught in bed with the head of the Super PAC, he denied that there was any
> illegal coordination violating federal election laws. “So long as there was
> no discussion of advertising or campaign strategy, this is completely
> kosher,” the spokesperson explained. Officials at the FEC refused to
> comment on the specifics of the case, noting that it could be the subject
> of an official complaint, but sources within the agency indicated the
> agency would likely split 3-3 should the question come before the
> Commission.*
>
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> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
> “Kobach: Okay for Poll Workers to Question People with ‘Funny Accents,’
> ‘Strange Names'” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81420>
>
> Posted on April 1, 2016 5:34 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81420> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Wichita Eagle
> <http://adage.com/article/campaign-trail/esurance-offers-election-insurance/303345/>
> :
>
> *Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has made stopping illegal
> immigration and voter fraud a cornerstone of his policies, and to whom the
> Kansas legislature has given prosecutorial powers
> <http://cjonline.com/news/2015-06-08/brownback-signs-bill-giving-kobach-prosecution-power>over
> election fraud, said it is perfectly appropriate for poll workers to give
> greater scrutiny to “voters who raise suspicions, such as those with funny
> accents, strange names, or other indicia they might be trying to defraud
> the people of Kansas.”*
>
> *“Look, just like police engage in racial profiling for a reason, there’s
> a reason we might want to target those who are different from normal
> Kansans for special scrutiny,” said Kobach, who has drawn the ire of
> Democrats and voting rights groups. Despite Kobach’s rhetoric, his office
> has uncovered and prosecuted only a handful of voter fraud claims
> <http://cjonline.com/news/2015-06-08/brownback-signs-bill-giving-kobach-prosecution-power> in
> Kansas.*
>
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>
> Posted in fraudulent fraud squad <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>
> “Ducey signs campaign finance bill assailed by critics as pro-dark money”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81418>
>
> Posted on April 1, 2016 5:19 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81418> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Arizona Capitol Times
> <http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2016/03/31/ducey-signs-campaign-finance-bill-assailed-by-critics-as-pro-dark-money/>
> :
>
> *Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill that completely rewrites Arizona’s campaign
> finance laws, including a provision that critics say will open the state up
> to more dark money in elections.*
>
> *Secretary of State Michele Reagan pushed SB1516 with the stated goal of
> simplifying Arizona’s outdated campaign finance statutes. Most of the
> bill’s provisions have been noncontroversial.*
>
> *But several key parts of the law have raised the ire of legislative
> Democrats and others would make it far more difficult for state elections
> officials to crack down on nonprofit groups that break the rules in
> spending dark money.*
>
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>
> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
> and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
> “No, Commissioner Weintraub, the FEC Can’t Circumvent Citizens United”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81416>
>
> Posted on April 1, 2016 5:15 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81416> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Allen Dickerson
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-dickerson/no-commissioner-weintraub_b_9585932.html>
> :
>
> *In an opinion piece
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/opinion/taking-n-citizens-united.html?_r=1> published
> yesterday in The New York Times, Ellen Weintraub, a member of the Federal
> Election Commission, suggests a way to “blunt the impact” ofCitizens United
> v. FEC. There are reasons to question the propriety of a federal officer
> attempting to “blunt” a First Amendment ruling against her agency, and I am
> unaware of another federal entity whose commissioners routinely take to the
> pages of major newspapers to decry binding Supreme Court precedent. But no
> matter how attractive you find her proposed “zero-tolerance standard,”
> under which any corporation with even a single foreign shareholder could be
> barred from any political activity, her proposal relies on a number of
> fatal legal errors.*
>
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>
> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal
> election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
> “McConnell: Likely No Vote for Democratic #SCOTUS Nominee Before 2020”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81414>
>
> Posted on April 1, 2016 5:12 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81414> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> WaPo <http://bgr.com/2016/04/01/google-gmail-drop-mic-april-fools/>:
>
> *Facing the increasing prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency, Senate
> majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) sought to lay the groundwork for
> denying Democrats a crucial fifth vote on the United States Supreme Court
> well past Inauguration Day in January.*
>
> *According to a Republican insider, who asked for anonymity in order to
> speak frankly about internal political strategy, the increasing chances of
> a Donald Trump Republican nomination and a loss to Democrats in
> November has led to new strategies for delay. “McConnell’s pitch is going
> to be this: we’ve already said
> <http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/23/politics/joe-biden-supreme-court-senate-republicans/> that
> the next Supreme Court appointment is so crucial to our country that we
> should let the people vote before making such a crucial decision. And while
> it’s true we’ll be choosing a president and one-third of the Senators in
> 2016, the other two-thirds won’t be chosen until 2018 and 2020. Only after
> these votes is it fair to consider whether to confirm a president’s
> nominee.”*
>
> *After the Supreme Court’s 4-4 deadlock
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-deadlocks-over-public-employee-union-case-calif-teachers-must-pay-dues/2016/03/29/b99faa30-f5b7-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html> in
> a case last week involving the power of public sector unions, everyone
> recognizes the stakes of who controls the Supreme Court could not be
> higher. According to the insider, McConnell told fellow Republican senators
> that he agreed with Donald Trump on one thing: “Delay, delay, delay.
> <http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/13/trump-delay-delay-delay-a-supreme-court-appointment-video/>“*
>
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> Posted in Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
> “How to Hack an Election” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81412>
>
> Posted on April 1, 2016 4:38 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81412> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Bloomberg
> <http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-election/?cmpid=BBD040116_POL&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=>
> :
>
> *For eight years, Sepúlveda, now 31, says he traveled the continent
> rigging major political campaigns. With a budget of $600,000, the Peña
> Nieto job was by far his most complex. He led a team of hackers that stole
> campaign strategies, manipulated social media to create false waves of
> enthusiasm and derision, and installed spyware in opposition offices, all
> to help Peña Nieto, a right-of-center candidate, eke out a victory. On that
> July night, he cracked bottle after bottle of Colón Negra beer in
> celebration. As usual on election night, he was alone.*
>
> *Sepúlveda’s career began in 2005, and his first jobs were small—mostly
> defacing campaign websites and breaking into opponents’ donor databases.
> Within a few years he was assembling teams that spied, stole, and smeared
> on behalf of presidential campaigns across Latin America. He wasn’t cheap,
> but his services were extensive. For $12,000 a month, a customer hired a
> crew that could hack smartphones, spoof and clone Web pages, and send mass
> e-mails and texts. The premium package, at $20,000 a month, also included a
> full range of digital interception, attack, decryption, and defense. The
> jobs were carefully laundered through layers of middlemen and consultants.
> Sepúlveda says many of the candidates he helped might not even have known
> about his role; he says he met only a few.*
>
> *His teams worked on presidential elections in Nicaragua, Panama,
> Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and
> Venezuela. Campaigns mentioned in this story were contacted through former
> and current spokespeople; none but Mexico’s PRI and the campaign of
> Guatemala’s National Advancement Party would comment.*
>
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>
> Posted in chicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
> “Dead cat at heart of Florida election controversy”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81410>
>
> Posted on April 1, 2016 4:36 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81410> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Marc Caputo
> <http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/florida/2016/04/8595443/dead-cat-heart-florida-election-controversy>
> :
>
> *Gracey Duncan seemed to be the type of Floridian a nonprofit
> voter-registration group wanted to get on the rolls to start participating
> in elections.*
>
> *But two problems stood in the way: Gracey is a cat. And she’s dead.*
>
> *“Why is my (dead)cat getting #voterregistration apps? This is #2,”
> Gracey’s confused former owner, Julie Duncan, asked her local election
> supervisor via Twitter
> <https://twitter.com/MikeErtel/status/715289305795661824>.*
>
> *The easy answer to Duncan’s question is that a database mix-up or
> mismatch led the nonprofit Voter Participation Center to think “Gracey
> Duncan” was the type of person — a minority or single woman — the
> liberal-leaning group wants to register ahead of the presidential election.*
>
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>
> Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
> “Trump’s uphill delegate scramble” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81408>
>
> Posted on April 1, 2016 4:32 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81408> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Politico
> <http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/trumps-uphill-delegate-scramble-221443>
> :
>
>
>
> *If Donald Trump loses in Wisconsin next week, he will need to win roughly
> 60 percent of the remaining delegates to win the Republican presidential
> nomination outright — a daunting but not impossible challenge.But if he
> fails to achieve it, and is thus unable to win the nomination outright,
> Trump is poised to suffer an exodus of delegates at a contested
> convention.Story Continued Below*
>
> *Interviews with dozens of delegates, delegate candidates, operatives and
> party leaders in recent days suggest that more than a hundred delegates —
> bound by rules and laws to back Trump on a first vote at the July
> convention in Cleveland — are prepared to break with him on a second
> ballot.*
>
>
>
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>
> Posted in political parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,
> primaries <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
> “Trump: I Will Take Office if I Win the Popular Vote, Even If I Lose
> Electoral College” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81406>
>
> Posted on April 1, 2016 4:29 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81406> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> AP <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ>:
>
> *A defiant Donald Trump, speaking at a rally Wednesday in Waukesha,
> Wisconsin
> <https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=dave%20weigel>,
> slammed the undemocratic nature of Electoral College, which awards
> presidential electors by state, and promised to take office if he wins the
> overall popular vote for president even if Congress declares someone else
> the winner..*
>
> *“I’ve said before that I’m willing to abide by the rules for choosing the
> president if they are fair. But the idea that I could get more votes than
> Hillary Clinton and still lose the presidency is ridiculous. I’ll only play
> fair if the Congress plays fair in choosing a president,” the candidate
> declared.*
>
> *Trump said he had asked his controversial campaign manager, Corey
> Lewandowski, to devise a plan for seizing power in the event that Congress
> declares Clinton the winner if she receives the most electoral votes.
> “Corey’s got some really good ideas about what we need to do and how we
> need to do it. Nothing is off the table. Believe me,” Trump said, “you’ve
> never seen anything like it.”*
>
>
>
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>
> Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, electoral
> college <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>
> “Outraged by Kansas Justices’ Rulings, G.O.P. Seeks to Reshape Court”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81404>
>
> Posted on April 1, 2016 4:16 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81404> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Must-read Erik Eckholm
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/us/outraged-by-kansas-justices-rulings-gop-seeks-to-reshape-court.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0>
>  NYT:
>
> *Partisan conflict over courts has erupted in many of the 38 states where
> justices are either directly elected or, as in Kansas, face periodic
> retention elections, without an opposing candidate. As conservatives in
> Washington attempt to preserve a majority on the federal Supreme Court,
> politically ascendant conservatives in several states are seeking to
> reshape courts that they consider to be overly liberal vestiges of eras
> past.*
>
> *“We’ve seen this tug of war between courts and political branches all
> around the country,” said Alicia Bannon, a senior counsel at the Brennan
> Center for Justice <https://www.brennancenter.org/> at New York University.*
>
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>
> Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, judicial
> elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>
> “Trump’s Threat on Pledge Could Cost Him South Carolina Delegates”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81402>
>
> Posted on April 1, 2016 4:11 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81402> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> TIME
> <http://time.com/4278295/donald-trump-loyalty-pledge-south-carolina-delegates/>
> :
>
> *Donald Trump’s announcement that he no longer stands by a pledge to
> support the GOP has thrown his hold on South Carolina’s 50 delegates in
> doubt.*
>
> *The Palmetto State was one of several that required candidates to pledge
> their loyalty to the party’s eventual nominee in order to secure a slot on
> the primary ballot. Though Trump won all of the state’s delegates
> <http://time.com/4231631/south-carolina-primary-results-republican-donald-trump-ted-cruz-marco-rubio-jeb-bush/> in
> the Feb. 20 primary, anti-Trump forces are plotting to contest their
> binding to Trump because of his threat on the pledge Tuesday.*
>
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>
> Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, political
> parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, primaries
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
> “Casting Votes, Counting Votes for Election 2016: Democracy and Law in
> Action” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81400>
>
> Posted on March 31, 2016 7:59 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81400> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> I’ll be attending this conference at Wisconsin Law
> <http://law.wisc.edu/ils/2016votingrights/index.html>Friday and Saturday,
> with Pam Karlan as the keynote.
>
> I’ll be presenting Softening Voter ID Laws Through Litigation: Is it
> Enough? (draft in progress, Mar. 2016
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80636>)
>
>
>
> [image: Share]
>
> Posted in Uncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
> “Cruz predicts Trump won’t be able to mount a third-party run”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81398>
>
> Posted on March 31, 2016 7:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81398> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Politico:
> <http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/ted-cruz-trump-no-third-party-221425#ixzz44WHQH5L1>
>
> *Donald Trump won’t be able to mount a third-party bid for president if he
> loses the Republican nomination, Ted Cruz said Thursday.*
>
> *“He doesn’t have the option of running as a third-party [candidate],” the
> Texas senator told Wisconsin radio host Charlie Sykes. “Quite a few states
> across the country have what are called sore-loser laws, that once you run
> as a Republican and lose, you don’t get to then turn around and file on the
> ballot as an independent, so that will not be an option available to him.”*
>
> Michael Kang has written a key paper
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1809970> on sore
> loser laws. Some may not apply to presidential elections, and there may be
> some constitutional issues with such laws as well.
>
>
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