Subject: important reminder; news of the day 6/17/04
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 6/17/2004, 7:24 AM
To: election-law

Important Note: Server Downtime

Beginning Friday, June 18, through Monday, June 21, the election law blog, the election law listserv, and my e-mail will likely be down for extended periods for scheduled downtime maintenance. For at least some of this time, the blog will be inacessible, the listserv will not post messages, and e-mail messages will not come through to me (though, frustratingly, you may not get a bounce message if you send me anything). Best bet to reach me during this period: send an e-mail to my backup email address: hasenr-at-netscape.net (replacing the -at- with @ of course).

"Campaign Fund Probe Expands to Democrat; Allegations Echo Inquiry of DeLay"

The Houston Chronicle offers this report, which begins: "Travis County prosecutors said Wednesday they are investigating an allegation that U.S. Rep. Martin Frost illegally funneled more than $100,000 in corporate donations to Texas legislative candidates in the 2000 election. Frost, D-Dallas, denied the accusation, saying the criminal complaint against him is a Republican attempt to deflect attention from an ethics investigation of U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay."


"Officials Caught Off Guard by Irreverent 'Daily Show""

The Sacramento Bee offers this report.


Democratic Party to Make Independent Expenditures Favoring Kerry

See this Boston Globe report. This is exactly the strategy I predicted here when the Kerry folks floated the trial balloon (since shot down) of a delayed Kerry nomination date.


More Corrado and Mann on the Early BCRA Verdict

See here.


Volokh on NRA Exemption

See here.


Campaign Finance News

The Washington Post offers Kerry Outpaces Bush in Donations. The New York Times features Republicans Nearing Money Record for Convention.


Bauer on NRA

Bob Bauer responds to my post on the NRA and the media exemption here.


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