| Subject: news of the day 3/30/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 3/30/2005, 8:57 AM |
| To: election-law |
The Sacramento Bee offers this report, which begins: "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's political team is moving to take over his special election campaign after last week's court ruling that allows politicians to raise unlimited money for ballot measure efforts at the same time they fully control them."
Given these developments I am surprised we have heard nothing from
the FPPC about whether or not they plan to appeal. If they appeal, they
should try to get the case an expedited hearing (perhaps in the
California Supreme Court) so that this issue can be resolved without
the potential for the rules switching again in the middle of the
(expected special) election season.
The New York Times offers this
report.
Don't miss Derek Cressman's blog
post, "Regulate Us, Please." It concerns the FEC's current
rulemaking on Internet election activity.
This panel
will be held on March 31 in Washington D.C. Looks fascinating. I have
written on this topic a fair amount (see here for my most
recent thoughts) with more coming soon.
Mark Glaze has published this
commentary on the Pew controversy. It is a Harper's Index
type look at the $123 million supposedly spent on campaign finance
reform over a 10 year period.
-- Rick Hasen William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law Loyola Law School 919 Albany Street Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211 (213)736-1466 (213)380-3769 - fax rick.hasen@lls.edu http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/hasen.html http://electionlawblog.org