Larry Lessig is not the first single-issue candidate in American presidential history, but from Tom Mann’s perspective, he picked the wrong issue. Mann says that to isolate money-in-politics, to treat it as the key to solving all other problems, is to “dumb down” politics.Source: The Lessig-Mann Dust-Up -...
Our political discourse is shrinking to fit our smartphone screens. If traditional print and broadcast media required candidates to be nouns—stable, coherent figures—social media pushes them to be verbs, engines of activity.Source: How Social Media Is Ruining Politics...
It is becoming clear that the road to the White House in 2016 leads straight through Silicon Valley.Source: Which Presidential Candidate Is Winning the Tech Money Race?...
Ted Cruz. (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)Most presidential candidates have one, perhaps two super PACs championing their cause. It appears Ted Cruz has six. Three of those are exclusively funded by one donor or a family of donors.Source: The perplexing case of the Ted Cruz super PACs...
Shown notes from his district office’s staff retreat, Rep. Michael M. Honda allegedly acknowledged to ethics investigators that what he was seeing was “open to a lot of interpretation, but it doesn’t look good.”Source: House Ethics Committee Extends Review of Mike Honda...
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association v.Source: Anti-Citizens United initiative case to be argued in October...
