Trevor Potter -- a former Federal Election Commission chairman who served as Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) campaign legal counsel in 2008 -- told Bloomberg View that he doesn't think Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has as strong a case for his eligibility to be President as McCain did.Source: Ex-FEC Chair: Ted Cruz's Birth Issue Is A Closer Call Than John McCain's...
Since the early 1970s, the right has conducted a sustained drive to gain power and set policy in the 50 states. The left, by contrast, has been far less effective at the state-level.Source: The Republican Party’s 50-State Solution...
The term “Republican establishment” refers to people like Scott Reed. Those people have had a very confusing year. Across four decades, Mr. Reed has worked for his generation’s signature Republican leaders: Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, George Bush, Bob Dole.Source: Imagining Trump Going the Distance...
For many Americans these may seem like fundamental, if unfortunate, aspects of American elections. But the truth is that all of these things are very recent phenomena. Only a few years ago, there were no federal super PACs.Source: Five to Four...
Last April, with the race for president still far away, President Obama used his speech at the annual White House Correspondents Assn. dinner to poke fun at some likely Republican contenders, needling Jeb Bush’s efforts to court Latinos and Ted Cruz’s denial of climate change.Source: Trump inspires unease in both parties, as State of the Union and its response make...
On January 14, a lawsuit was filed against some Pennsylvania ballot access restrictions that pertain to primary election petitions. The lawsuit challenges the ban on out-of-state circulators for primary petitions. It also challenges the requirement that each sheet of a primary petition be notarized.Source: Lawsuit Filed Against Pennsylvania Ballot Access Restrictions for Primary Candidates...
Fox Business Network has shrunk the main stage to seven candidates for Thursday’s Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.Source: The presidential debate commission is getting ready for a serious 3rd party candidate...
The legal mind behind Jeb Bush's super PAC fired another shot against Donald Trump on Wednesday, lodging a second complaint with federal regulators that the billionaire has improperly used corporate resources to advance his presidential ambitions.Source: Bush-aligned lawyer: Donald Trump's camp is breaking federal law...
It is easy to dismiss as overblown the concern about the outsize role of ultra-rich donors in the American political scene. Exhibit 1: Jeb Bush.Source: Money can’t buy Jeb Bush the White House, but it still skews politicsThen there is this:“People are upset about the Citizens United decision; people are upset about all this money flowing into politics, but at...
Nonprofit groups’ disclosure policies vary. Some campaign finance reform groups list donors online; some disclose donors if asked. Some only disclose gifts from institutions; others list institutions and individuals. Some accept anonymous money; some do not.Source: Groups decrying 'dark money' use shadowy money themselves...
