Thanks in large part to the campaign spending flood unleashed in 2010 by the Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United ruling and the DC Circuit Court of Appeals’ SpeechNOW.org decision, local broadcast television remains that rare legacy media business where things are still looking up.Source: Political Ads Keep Saving Local TV...
Great to talk to Ramona Giwargis of the San Jose Mercury News for this one. But a political ethics expert said the commission made a fair decision.Source: "San Jose commission will investigate nearly the entire City Council"...
Although Lanhee Chen says the GOP is dealing with “very, very fundamental debates about what it means to be a Republican,” he knows better than most people what policies should be at the forefront of a conservative agenda—and how to convey those ideas to voters.Source: Ideas changing politics and the people behind them...
David Bossie. | AP PhotoSource: Ideas changing politics and the people behind them...
Hillary Clinton’s release of her campaign finance proposals on Tuesday confirms there will be no significant substantive differences on political reform among the aspirants for the Democratic presidential nomination but a huge gulf between the two parties, whoever the nominees.Source: Clinton's campaign finance proposal & the long road to reform...
Just in time to beat Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to the punch, Hillary Clinton released a comprehensive campaign finance reform plan aimed at reducing the influence of wealthy interests and boosting the power of small donors.Source: Bernie Sanders is pushing Hillary Clinton to care about money in politics...
The legal team that uncovered the shadow redistricting process that invalidated Florida’s congressional and Senate districts didn’t rely just on maps and cloak-and-dagger emails to prove that legislators broke the law.Source: “Redistricting challengers used data and emails to piece together signs of conspiracy”...
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association v.Source: Anti-Citizens United initiative case to be argued in October...
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...
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...
