The two-year prison sentence imposed on disgraced GOP operative Tyler Harber is the first step toward greater scrutiny of the consulting industry, federal prosecutors said Friday. The government credited Terry Wear, who runs the 11th district GOP in Virginia, with blowing the whistle on Harber.Source: Republican strategist sentenced to two years for illegal coordination...
Jonathan Zucker and Joshua Tauberer have developed a website where political donors can give money to the campaigns of sitting lawmakers or their future reelection challengers based solely on how those lawmakers vote on legislation. Just don’t confuse it with “bribery,” they say.Source: This Web site allows political donors to give money based on how lawmakers vote. Just don’t call...
[Image by Bahri Altay courtesy of nmhc] UC-Irvine's Rick Hasen has a new opinion piece in Slate in which he takes issue with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's new aggressive stance on election reform - not because of its content but because of its approach: Hillary Clinton spokeSource: Putting Out a Fire with Gasoline: Partisan Election Reform Push Likely Makes...
WASHINGTON — Two Democratic members of the Federal Election Commission, who say they are frustrated by the agency's failure to rein in campaign-finance abuses ahead of the 2016 presidential race, are making what amounts to a drastic move Monday in the staid world of federal election law.Source: Exclusive: Two FEC officials implore agency to curb 2016 election abuse...
