| Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 2/8/11 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 2/8/2011, 9:56 AM |
| To: Election Law |
Roll Call offers this
important article, which begins: "As Congressional
Republicans headed into the last few weeks before Election Day,
they opened a special joint fundraising committee to collect
large checks from corporate CEOs in an effort to pick up as many
Democratic seats as possible. The result was phenomenal: Not
since the 2002 ban on soft money have so few outside donors
given so much money to a candidate-based fund."
The Hill offers this
report.
MinnPost offers this
report.
David Schleicher kicks it off with What
If Europe Held an Election and No One Cared? (based on this
article), with a response
by Eric Delaney and Sam Issacharoff, and a reply
by David.
The NY Times offers this
very interesting report.
This
event Thursday looks terrific. I hope there will be an
archived webcast.
Very
interesting blog post by Adam Bonin at Daily Kos.
Caplin & Drysdale makes
it easy.
"The Fix" reports.
Check it out here.
See this
press release.