What do Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have in common? Pause for requisite awful hair joke. No really. From a campaign finance perspective, they have one distinctive thing in common: they have no Super PACs propping up their candidacies.Source: 2016 Will Be A Test for Super PACs...
All the while, the FEC has gone 29 months without duly appointing a general counsel to lead its legal operations. In the meantime, the United States has legalized marriage for same-sex couples, allowed women to serve in military combat and explored Pluto, more than 3.1 billion miles from Earth.Source: New FEC chairman aims to calm agency at war with itself...
While campaign finance reformers were busy fighting off an attempt by Sen.Source: BIG: Campaign Finance Disclosure Efforts Dealt Severe Blow in Omnibus...
The Republican party will assign 2,472 delegates through a state-by-state series of caucuses and primaries between February and June. To win the nomination, a given candidate requires a simple majority, or 1,237, of the total.Source: What is a 'brokered convention'? Here is a (kind of) simple explanation...
Dear Mr. Garten: On behalf of our client, Right to Rise PAC, Inc.Source: The absolutely epic trolling letter Jeb Bush’s leadership PAC sent to Donald Trump’s lawyer...
I know it is late on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, but here’s some very big news. It sounds technical, but it really, really matters. Close observers of the campaign-finance arena may be experiencing twinges of déjà vu.Source: BIG Campaign Finance News: La. GOP Soft Money Lawsuit Gets 3-Judge Court, Likely Ticket to SCOTUS...
Before he entered the race for the White House, Ben Carson signed on to a campaign to raise money to fight Obamacare. When Juanita McMillon saw his name, she was eager to get out her checkbook.Source: Donors gave a super PAC $6 million. Candidates actually got about $140,000....
Right now the basic complaint about Super PACs is that they can enlist the and endorsement support of their favored candidates, as in fundraising, and still claim they are “independent” and spend without limit.Source: "Not Authorized" -...
On a 26-day book tour last month, Ben Carson held a news conference in a Books-a-Million store in Iowa, appeared often on TV to discuss his candidacy and sandwiched campaign rallies between book signings. Now a Democratic watchdog group has complained to the Federal Election Commission that Mr.Source: Ben Carson’s Book Tour Draws Campaign Finance Complaint...
