[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/18/16
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Mon Jan 18 11:16:20 PST 2016
Sen. Sanders Ties Health Care Reform to Campaign Finance Reform
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79094>
Posted onJanuary 18, 2016 11:13 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79094>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
From last night’s debate
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/17/the-4th-democratic-debate-transcript-annotated-who-said-what-and-what-it-meant/>:
(video
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/sanders-campaign-finance-system-is-corrupt-603515971586>)
SANDERS:…
You know what it all comes down to?
Do you know why we can’t do what every other country — major country
on Earth is doing? It’s because we have a campaign finance system
that is corrupt, we have super PACs, we have the pharmaceutical
industry pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into campaign
contributions and lobbying, and the private insurance companies as well.
What this is really about is not the rational way to go forward —
it’s Medicare for all — it is whether we have the guts to stand up
to the private insurance companies and all of their money, and the
pharmaceutical industry. That’s what this debate should be about.
(APPLAUSE)
CLINTON: Well, as someone who — as someone who has a little bit of
experience standing up to the health insurance industry, that spent,
you know…
(APPLAUSE)
… many, many millions of dollars attacking me, and probably will so
again, because of what I believe we can do building on the
Affordable Care Act, I think it’s important to point out that there
are a lot of reasons we have the health care system we have today.
I know how much money influences the political decision-making.
That’s why I’m for huge campaign finance reform. However, we started
a system that had private health insurance.
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“Can Republicans Embrace Campaign-Finance Reform?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79092>
Posted onJanuary 18, 2016 11:01 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79092>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
TAP sits down
<http://prospect.org/article/can-republicans-embrace-campaign-finance-reform>with
Nick Penniman of Republican reform group Issue One.
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“Case Could Widen Free-Speech Gap Between Unions and Corporations”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79090>
Posted onJanuary 18, 2016 10:57 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79090>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Adam Liptak
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/us/politics/supreme-court-public-unions-corporations.html?_r=0>NYT
Sidebar column:
The Citizens United decision
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22scotus.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0>,
which amplified the role of money in American politics, also
promised something like a level playing field. Both corporations and
unions, it said, could spend what they liked to support their
favored candidates.
Butlast week’s arguments
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/us/politics/at-supreme-court-public-unions-face-possible-major-setback.html>in
a major challenge to public unions illuminated a gap in theSupreme
Court
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/supreme_court/index.html?inline=nyt-org>’s
treatment of capital and labor. The court has long allowed workers
to refuse to finance unions’ political activities. But shareholders
have no comparable right to refuse to pay for corporate political
speech.
At the arguments in the case, Friedrichs v. California Teachers
Association, No. 14-915, the justices seemed poised to widen that
gap by allowing government workers to refuse to support unions’
collective bargaining activities, too.
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“Super PACs get free pass to hide donors”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79088>
Posted onJanuary 18, 2016 10:44 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79088>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/01/18/19151/super-pacs-get-free-pass-hide-donors>:
On Tuesday, a pro-Hillary Clinton
<https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/04/12/17107/12-things-know-about-hillary-clinton>super
PAC
<https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/03/18/14427/merriam-webster-makes-super-pac-official>sent
campaign regulators aseemingly perfunctory letter,
<http://docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/fectxt/1039113.txt>all of 30 words long.
“This letter serves to officially notify the Federal Election
Commission that Priorities USA Action will file its reports on a
monthly basis to the Commission as of January 1, 2016,” it read.
Sounds harmless enough. But that little note — and more just like it
from other super PACs — allows top presidential bankrollers to
remain hidden as the campaign grows white hot.
That’s because, thanks to a quirk in federal law, such letters give
those super PACs the power to withhold their January donors’ names
until well after the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and New
Hampshire primaries are conducted next month.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
Tillman Relies on Democracy Canon to Support Interpretation that
Sen. Cruz Eligible for President as Natural Born Citizen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79086>
Posted onJanuary 18, 2016 10:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79086>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I’d been thinking thesame thing.
<http://originalismblog.typepad.com/the-originalism-blog/2016/01/a-different-take-on-natural-bornseth-barrett-tillman.html>
My work on the Democracy Canon in the /Stanford Law Review /ishere.
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1344476>
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“GOP 2016: Emails Show Carly Fiorina Super PAC Helps Out At Campaign
Events, Despite Coordination Rules”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79084>
Posted onJanuary 17, 2016 3:25 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79084>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The IBT reports.
<http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/gop-2016-emails-show-carly-fiorina-super-pac-helps-out-campaign-events-despite>
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“Casting ballots twice is not a big problem, voting advocates say,
but some want action” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79082>
Posted onJanuary 17, 2016 3:14 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79082>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Sun Sentinel reports.
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-tracking-voting-changes-20160115-story.html>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“The Koch brothers’ impact on the American political system”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79080>
Posted onJanuary 17, 2016 3:07 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79080>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Tom Hamburger reviews
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-koch-brothers-impact-on-the-american-political-system/2016/01/15/6a3694aa-b579-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory>Jane
Mayer’s Dark Money.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“Trump open to campaign finance reform”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79078>
Posted onJanuary 17, 2016 3:05 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79078>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Hill
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/266189-trump-open-to-campaign-finance-reform>:
Pointing to the effects of “horrible” super-PACs, Republican
presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday said America needs
to come up with a solution to keep big money out of politics.
“Well, I think you need it, because I think PACs are a horrible
thing,” Trump said on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked if he
would pursue campaign finance reform.
The billionaire businessman, who said he is self-financing his
campaign, said the wall separating super-PACs and candidates running
for public office is illusory.
“First of all, everyone’s dealing with their PAC. You know, it’s
supposed to be like this secret thing. They’re all dealing with it,”
he saiid
Thus sayeth the billionaire who still is relying more on donations from
others than his own money.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,Plutocrats United
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=104>
“Amount of lobbying done in the shadows is growing, California
ethics officials agree” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79076>
Posted onJanuary 17, 2016 3:03 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79076>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
LAT
<http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-sac-shadow-lobbying-20160117-story.html>:
The dire warning arrived in a mailer to thousands of state voters
from a group called the California Drivers Alliance.
“Gasoline restrictions … will hurt families in LA,” the
geographically targeted mailer warned, alerting the recipient that
legislation being debated in Sacramento would “take away our ability
to drive to work in our own cars.”
The group’s name sounded as if it was a grass-roots organization of
motorists, but it was actually the creation of the Western States
Petroleum Assn. as part of its successful lobbying effort last year
to kill a proposal that would have reduced gas consumption by 50% in
California by the year 2030.
When the leading oil industry association in the state publicly
filed a required disclosure of its lobbying effort, there was no
mention of its funding of the mail campaign and a related YouTube video.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>
Legal Theory Blog Recommends Plutocrats United
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79074>
Posted onJanuary 17, 2016 2:57 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79074>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Thanks Larry!
<http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2016/01/legal-theory-bookworm-plutocrats-united-by-hasen.html>
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“Prominent Jeb Bush Donor Questions Super PAC Strategist Over
Negative Marco Rubio Ads” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79072>
Posted onJanuary 16, 2016 12:44 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79072>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/16/prominent-jeb-bush-donor-questions-how-bush-aligned-super-pac-spends-its-money/?ref=politics&_r=0>:
A prominent donor to Jeb Bush pressed the chief strategist of the
“super PAC” supporting Mr. Bush over the group’s negative ads about
Senator Marco Rubio during a closed-door meeting in Manhattan on
Friday, according to three people familiar with the encounter.
The exchange took place between Barry Volpert of the private equity
firm Crestview Partners and the strategist Mike Murphy at a meeting
of about 35 donors at the Palace Hotel in Midtown, according to one
attendee.
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