Sen. Bob Hertzberg chose, appropriately, the first weekday of Sunshine Week to announce his bill that would shed much more light on California’s political campaign money.Source: Update public’s knowledge of money in California politics...
In the industrial Midwest, after multiple ballots, the Republican convention finally chooses its nominee.Source: Bribery and the Brokered Convention?...
Google’s already made it pretty easy to track a presidential candidate’s stance on issues and primary results, and today it’s adding in campaign finance information to its search results.Source: Google Adds Campaign Finance Information to Presidential Candidate Search Results...
Public cynicism about money in politics has become so reflexive and deeply ingrained that the stock refrain from voters, candidates, political experts, election lawyers, and even many reform advocates is “Nothing will ever change.” Public financing? It will never happen.Source: The Campaign-Finance Reform Wish List...
HARRISBURG — Carmon Elliott is not a lawyer. But he got to play one Thursday in state court when he tried to convince a judge that Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is really a Canadian who has no constitutional right to be a candidate for U.S. president.Source: Pa judge hears Ted Cruz 'birther' challenge...
The state Senate has adopted a proposal that would make it a felony to collect and drop off someone else’s ballot in most cases. The measure’s outcome could impact the state’s general and primary elections if the bill is enacted before elections take place.Source: Senate passes bill outlawing early ballot collection...
Donald Trump speaks during a March 9 campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina. | AP Photo FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — If the Obama administration does not pursue a criminal indictment of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump’s White House would.Source: Trump would pursue criminal indictment of Clinton...
On March 2, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez signed HB 138. It lets 17-year-olds vote in primaries for all office if they will be age 18 by the general election. There are now 16 states that permit this for all office, and 22 who permit it for president. See this Ballotpedia list.Source: New Mexico Governor Signs Bill Letting 17-Year-Olds Vote...
The Federal Election Commission’s job is hard, harder than many will admit, but the agency somehow manages to make it even harder. So now, five years after the fact, the FEC has decided not to investigate a donor’s alleged use of an LLC to mask a $1 million contribution to a Super PAC.Source: The FEC and the Case of the...
Troy Jackson introduced Sen. Bernie Sanders to a crowd of over 8,000 people in Portland, Maine last July. It was the “summer of Sanders.” As the candidate took the stage, he said solemnly to the exuberant crowd, “In case you didn’t notice, this is a big turnout.”Source: The battle for superdelegates — this time, it’s not about the money...
