Even after a presidential election in which scores of media personalities were shown to be entirely disconnected from the country and people they report on, the liberal media bubble is alive and well. All it took to reveal the durability of that bubble was a simple question about pickup trucks.Source: Journalists Hate Being Informed That They Live In A Truck-Hating...
The Political Reform Act is the cornerstone body of law that governs political activity in California: campaign finance, lobbying, and governmental ethics.Source: Political Reform Act Revision Project...
Senator Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Attorney General, is already facing fierce opposition from the establishment left, with a series of coordinated protests kicking off Tuesday to try and derail Session’s nomination.Source: Former DOJ Attorney: Sessions Faces ‘Nest of Vipers’ If Confirmed as Attorney General...
Green Party nominee Jill Stein will receive $2 million in refunds after initial estimates were well above the final costs of the failed presidential recount attempts in three battleground states, according to officials. Stein will use the leftover funds to launch a new voter integrity group.Source: Stein Final Recount Costs Below Estimates; Will Receive $2 Million Refund...
President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to shut down his charitable foundation, a decision that comes after repeated controversies over how it collected and disbursed funds.Source: Donald Trump plans to shut down his charitable foundation, which has been under scrutiny for months...
It’s safe to say that the 2016 presidential election was the most shocking in recent history. Donald Trump’s victory not only disproved most pollsters, it also debunked two popular political myths on both sides of the aisle. On the left, it debunked the myth that money buys elections.Source: Trump’s victory disproves these two big political myths...
IN early January, Seattle will start its first-in-the-nation “democracy vouchers” campaign-financing experiment, sending out about $50 million worth of vouchers to city voters.Source: Seattle’s ‘democracy vouchers’ are a recipe for campaign mischief...
Last week, Real Clear Politics extrapolated demographic trends to project which states are likely to gain or lose U.S. House seats in the reapportionment that will occur after the 2020 Census. Their forecast, shown below, has nine states losing one U.S. House seat and six states gaining seats.Source: Likely Changes in US House Seat Distribution for 2020...
House Republicans adopted a proposal by Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte to put the Office of Congressional Ethics under the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee. | AP PhotoSource: House Republicans gut their own oversight...
A bipartisan group of ethics advocates lobbed a second letter to President-elect Donald Trump Monday evening warning him that he needs to do more to separate himself from his family business interests.Source: Ethic advocates warn Trump that he needs to do more to divest from family business...
