| Subject: news of the day 4/20/04 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 4/20/2004, 7:33 AM |
| To: election-law |
Roll Call offers this
article
(paid subscription required), which begins: "A new regional party
committee called Democrats for the West is seeking guidance from the
Federal Election Commission on how the 527 group fits into the campaign
finance regulatory scheme and whether the group — spearheaded by a
coalition of nine Democratic state party committees — will be able to
raise both soft and hard money."
The Oakland Tribune offers this
report, with the following subhead: "Attorneys warned firm that use
of uncertified vote-counting software violated state law."
The Washington Post offers this
report,
which begins: "President Bush's campaign spent roughly twice as much as
it raised last month, using up nearly $50 million as the Republican
rolled out his first wave of campaign ads to counter John Kerry's surge
as he emerged from the Democratic primaries."
The Houston Chronicle offers this
report. Link via How
Appealing at its new address: http://legalaffairs.org/howappealing/.
Serves me right to blog before ingesting caffiene. In addition to the problem noted in the post on the Texas case, here are two more corrections.
1. The Nader article linked to the other day at this post now works.
2. The Notre Dame conference on my book, The Supreme Court and
Election Law, is on Friday, April 23, not April 22 as initially
noted in
this post.
I noted here
the testy exchange between FEC chair Brad Smith and the Center for
Responsive Politic's Larry Noble. Bob Bauer weighs in here
on the substance of the exchange between the parties.
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