| Subject: Re: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 10/19/10 |
| From: Sean Parnell |
| Date: 10/19/2010, 6:45 AM |
| To: 'Election Law' <election-law@mailman.lls.edu> |
One
additional item that may be of interest to folks on the list serve:
As
the hysterical and partisan attacks over the U.S. Chamber’s alleged
foreign money seems to be sputtering out, it appears it may now be time for
hysterical and partisan attacks on labor unions to take their place. Hard to
tell how serious the op-ed writer is regarding his suggestion that a potential House
Republican majority launch an investigation of labor unions and foreign money ,
but the “logic” used by him is just as strong (i.e. it’s pathetically
weak) as that supporting the allegations against the Chamber.
Sean
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From: election-law-bounces@mailman.lls.edu
[mailto:election-law-bounces@mailman.lls.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Hasen
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:11 AM
To: Election Law
Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 10/19/10
That's the astounding
message of an
ad from "Latinos for Reform." Here's
an NPR story on the group from 2008. Here's
the group's press release about the new ad. The most
recent filing of this 527 organization is not illuminating. Here's
some 2008 financial information.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 09:01 PM
Jess Bravin follows
up on his earlier
report about this Montana case. No surprises in this
ruling.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 08:41 PM
USA Today offers this
editorial. Brian Brown of NOM responds.
MORE: See this
SF Chronicle oped by Susan Gluss.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 08:25 PM
You can watch this event, cosponsored by the University of Va. Miller Center
of Public Affairs and the Campaign Finance Institute, at c-span's website.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:59 PM
Rhodes Cooks blogs
at WSJ's "Capital Journal."
Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:54 PM
News
from Topeka.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:40 PM
Molly Walker Wilson has posted this draft
on SSRN (forthcoming, Cardozo Law Review). Here is the abstract:
America stands at a moment in
history when advances in the understanding of human decision-making are
increasing the strategic efficacy of political strategy. As campaign spending
for the presidential race reaches hundreds of millions of dollars, the
potential for harnessing the power of psychological tactics becomes
considerable. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has characterized campaign money as
"speech" and has required evidence of corruption or the appearance of
corruption in order to uphold restrictions on campaign expenditures.
Ultimately, the Court has rejected virtually all restrictions on campaign
spending on the ground that expenditures, unlike contributions, do not
contribute to corruption or the appearance of corruption. However, behavioral
decision research and theory provide strong support for the notion that
expenditures do corrupt the political process, because there is a nexus between
campaign spending, strategic manipulation, and sub-optimal voting decisions.
This Article applies behavioral research and theory to advance a new definition
of "corruption," arguing that there is a vital governmental interest
in regulating campaign expenditures in order to limit manipulative campaign
tactics and to reduce the existing inequities in access to channels of communication
and persuasion.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:23 PM
The Campaign Finance Institute has issued this
press release.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:19 PM
See here.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 07:07 PM