news of the day 3/2/04

"FEC Challenges Reform Leaders' Standing in Suit"

Roll Call offers this article. (Paid subscription required.)

"Kerry Loan to Campaign Questioned"

The Washington Times offers this report, which begins: " Sen. John Kerry was asked yesterday to make public all documents involving the emergency $6.4 million bank loan he secured on his Boston town house late last year to finance his then-sagging presidential campaign.
At issue is the Mellon Bank's $12.8 million appraisal of Mr. Kerry's house on Boston's Beacon Hill — substantially higher than the city's $6.95 million property-value assessment. That has raised questions from the Massachusetts Democrat's critics about whether he has loaned far more to his campaign than his assets justified and thus violated, or at least stretched, campaign-finance laws."

"A Sign of the Political Times"

See this Palm Beach Post editorial on anonymous campaign mailings.

Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:14 AM

"Did Your Vote Count? New Coded Ballots May Prove that It Did"

The New York Times offers this report.

"FEC to Consider 'Soft Money' Curbs"

The Washington Post offers this report. See also Wraps Off Tough FEC 527 Options in The Hill.

"So Far, So Good on Campaign Finance Reform"

Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein offer this Washington Post oped.

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