| Subject: news of the day 3/4/04 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 3/4/2004, 7:30 AM |
| To: election-law |
See Post-BCRA Senate Fundraising Up 72 Percent, which begins: "Fundraising by Senate candidates jumped 72 percent during 2003, as compared to the first half of the 2001-02 campaign cycle, according to a Federal Election Commission analysis of campaign finance records."
See Kerry's E-mail Moves Irk Privacy Experts, which begins: "Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) presidential campaign used a controversial marketing practice offered by one of the country’s three credit bureaus to collect additional information last year about people who, according to the campaign, indicated that they would like to help the candidate in the primaries and caucuses."
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The Wall Street Journal offers this
report. Thanks to Steven Sholk for the link.
The New York Times offers this
report. See also this
Los Angeles Times report.
A.P. offers this report, which begins: "A state appeals court ruled Wednesday that California can sue an American Indian tribe to force it to abide by state campaign contribution laws." The opinion itself is here. The FPPC press release is here.
One of the interesting things about the opinion is that the court
holds that the State of California has the power under the Tenth
Amendment to enforce its election laws against the tribes to protect
its "republican form of government" under the Guarantee Clause.
PS: Political Science and Politics (Jan 04) has just
published a symposium,
Recalling the Recall: Reflections on California's Recent Political
Adventure. The short introduction to the symposium by Shaun Bowler and
Bruce Cain is available here. The rest
of the symposium is not on line. Here is a list of the articles:
Minority Participation and the California Recall: Latino, Black, and
Asian Voting Trends, 1990-2003
Matt A. Barreto and Ricardo Ramirez
Is the Personal Political? Gender, Sexual Misconduct, and the
California Recall
Lisa Garcia Bedolla and Carole J. Uhlaner
Rationalizing the California Recall
Walter J. Stone and Monti Narayan Datta
The Complexity of the California Recall Election
R. Michael Alvarez, Melanie Goodrich, Thad E. Hall, D. Roderick
Kiewiet, and Sarah M. Sled
Postponing the California Recall To Protect Voting Rights
Henry E. Brady
Responding to this post
linking to a Washington Times
article questioning whether John Kerry got a fair appraisal for the
market value of his house used to make a campaign loan, a Kerry
supporter pointed me to a February 26, 2004 Boston Globe
article, Glen Johnson, "3 Boston Brokers See a Fair Appraisal," Feb.
26, 2004, at A20. The article is no longer free on the newspaper's
website, but those with Lexis access can find it here.
It begins: "The home appraisal that allowed John F. Kerry to make a
much-needed $6.4 million loan to his presidential campaign set an
aggressive but not unreasonable value for the property, given the
exclusiveness of his Beacon Hill neighborhood and the distinct nature
of his townhouse, three high-end Boston real estate brokers said
yesterday."
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