[EL] What are Donald Trump’s Views on Campaign Finance Regulation?

Thu Mar 24 11:34:06 PDT 2016

Most Donald Trump quotes from the campaign trail about campaign finance are
available here:
http://talkingaboutmoneyin2016.tumblr.com/tagged/Donald+Trump

Including “Enh. I think it’s fine.
<http://talkingaboutmoneyin2016.tumblr.com/post/126096187558/enh-i-think-its-fine>”
in response to a question about public financing.

Also
<http://talkingaboutmoneyin2016.tumblr.com/post/127245210438/well-i-think-this-whole-thing-with-pacs-is>,
"I don’t mind the money coming in. Let it be transparent. Let them talk,
but let there be total transparency.”

*Tyler Creighton* | ReThink Media <http://rethinkmedia.org/> | Senior Media
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Sean Parnell <
sean at impactpolicymanagement.com> wrote:

> Well, he’ll have to stand in line behind Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who
> apparently wants me in jail (or maybe just bankrupted) for dissenting from
> global warming orthodoxy. I just got one book deal, maybe I ought to pitch
> another on all the people who seem to think I need to be punished by the
> state (working title: “I Aim to Misbehave
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VR3Av9qfZc>”).
>
>
>
> Sean
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>
> *From:* Steve Klein [mailto:stephen.klein.esq at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 24, 2016 2:10 PM
> *To:* Sean Parnell <sean at impactpolicymanagement.com>
> *Cc:* Pildes, Rick <pildesr at mercury.law.nyu.edu>; Rick Hasen <
> rhasen at law.uci.edu>; law-election at uci.edu
>
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] What are Donald Trump’s Views on Campaign Finance
> Regulation?
>
>
>
> No problem, wish there were more, but, well, in-depth policy specifics
> haven’t exactly been The Donald’s thing in 2016.
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>
> A bold statement, Sean, considering The Donald’s views on libel law.
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> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Sean Parnell <
> sean at impactpolicymanagement.com> wrote:
>
> No problem, wish there were more, but, well, in-depth policy specifics
> haven’t exactly been The Donald’s thing in 2016.
>
>
>
> Sean
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>
> *From:* Pildes, Rick [mailto:pildesr at mercury.law.nyu.edu]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:07 PM
> *To:* Sean Parnell <sean at impactpolicymanagement.com>; 'Rick Hasen' <
> rhasen at law.uci.edu>; law-election at uci.edu
> *Subject:* RE: [EL] What are Donald Trump’s Views on Campaign Finance
> Regulation?
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> Sean, thanks for sending that information.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Rick
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>
>
> Richard H. Pildes
>
> Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law
>
> NYU School of Law
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> 40 Washington Square South, NY, NY 10012
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> 212 998-6377
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>
>
> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [
> mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
> <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu>] *On Behalf Of *Sean
> Parnell
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:01 PM
> *To:* 'Rick Hasen'; law-election at uci.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] What are Donald Trump’s Views on Campaign Finance
> Regulation?
>
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> One of my clients, the Leadership Project for America, has attempted to
> summarize and document the views and histories of all the presidential
> candidates on a wide range of issues, including campaign finance
> regulation. He hasn’t said much of late, but he did address the topic in
> his 2000 book *The America We Deserve*. Below I’ve cut and pasted how we
> summarized his views on campaign finance:
>
>
>
> Trump has suggested he views contributions to candidates as an effective
> way to buy access, influence, and favorable decisions,177
> <http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/lott-smith-trump-big-lie-buying-politicians-article-1.2329706> but
> has otherwise been quiet in recent years about limits on campaign
> contributions and political speech. In his 2000 book *The America We
> Deserve* he favored a ban on soft-money contributions to political
> parties, opposed contribution limits, and supported “full and fast”
> disclosure of campaign contributions.178
> <http://stanfordpolitics.com/2015/09/trumps-dirty-dance/>
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>
>
> Link here <http://leadershipprojectforamerica.org/candidate/donald-trump/>
> (you’ll need to go to the ‘American Exceptionalism’ section and scroll down
> to ‘Religious Liberty & Free Speech”).
>
>
>
> Occasionally, of course, Trump has indicated he no longer believes what he
> once did on an issue, so this may not reflect his current thinking, but it
> is the most recent available as far as I know.
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>
> Sean Parnell
>
> President, Impact Policy Management LLC
>
> Alexandria, Virginia
>
> 571-289-1374
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> sean at impactpolicymanagement.com
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> What are Donald Trump’s Views on Campaign Finance Regulation?
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81159>
>
> Posted on March 23, 2016 3:01 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81159> by *Richard
> Pildes* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=7>
>
> Has Donald Trump expressed any position, or been asked his position, on
> how elections should be financed?
>
> We know he thinks large contributions are corrupting (“I give to
> everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what, when I need something
> from them two years later, three years later, I call them. They are there
> for me. That’s a broken system.”
> <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-surprisingly-honest-lessons-big-money-politics/story?id=32993736>).
> We know he considers SuperPacs a “scam
> <http://www.cnhttp/www.cnbc.com/2015/10/26/donald-trump-latest-super-pacs-are-a-scam.htmlbc.com/2015/10/26/donald-trump-latest-super-pacs-are-a-scam.html>.”
> And a significant part of his appeal to supporters in the primaries is that
> he is self-funding his campaign.  As others have pointed out, on money in
> politics, he sounds not all that different from Bernie Sanders or Hillary
> Clinton.
>
>
>
> So what is his position on how to fix the system he considers broken?
> Would he favor public financing?  Would he favor caps on how much outside
> groups or individuals could spend, which would require overturning
> Buckley?  Or caps on how much campaigns could spend too?  Or other
> approaches?
>
> I ask in all seriousness.  A while back, I noted that historically, the
> demands to regulate the role of money in American democracy had often
> united populist forces on both the right and left of the political
> spectrum.  The Jacksonian tradition, to which Trump can perhaps be
> considered an heir, was centrally about reducing the perceived influence of
> big money on American democracy.  On the Supreme Court, Justices from the
> Western United States who usually were considered somewhat conservative
> (White and O’Connor) or conservative (Rehnquist) had voted to uphold
> campaign finance regulations.  In more recent decades, the issue became far
> more polarized in partisan terms, at least among elected officials.
>
> Trump’s indictment of the current system has struck a bell with his
> supporters.  Knowing what he would propose to fix the system would be of
> considerable interest.
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