Alexandria, VA – A Sacramento County Superior Court judge struck down a law passed late last year to allow state and some local governments to enact taxpayer financing of political campaigns.Source: Court Strikes Down Attempt to Allow Taxpayer-Funded Campaigns...
As we reported yesterday, Election Day 2017 featured several high profile ranked choice voting elections in cities and towns. Altogether, more than 200,000 voters ranked their choices in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Cambridge, Mass. and Takoma Park, Md in cities with a total population of about 844,500.Source: Voter Turnout Surges in All Four Cities with Ranked Choice Voting...
Source: Tax reform can be boon for core political speech...
There’s an urgent need for reform for disclosure of how much money mighty political lobbyists are giving law makers who are writing relevant tax legislation When powerful lobbyists work hard over the coming weeks to convince Republican lawmakers to change their tax package to please them,Source: US campaign finance laws resemble legalized bribery. We must reform them...
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.—Richard Gabbay says he wasn’t trying to suppress anyone’s vote. He simply wanted to organize fellow Republicans for the upcoming 2016 presidential election in Florida’s Broward County.Source: Securing the vote: How efforts to prevent fraud, and voting rights, collide...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is skeptical of a legislative solution to the security issues surrounding political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)Source: McConnell Skeptical of Mandatory Disclosures for Facebook, Twitter Ads...
ATLANTIC CITY — Voice recorder in his pocket, Rodney Cotton, 51, got out of the private detectives’ car and headed for the Gilliam for Mayor headquarters on Atlantic Avenue.Source: Campaign informant: I was paid $30 to hand messenger ballot to Atlantic City Democratic operative...
Weintraub voiced support for the Honest Ads Act, introduced Oct. 19 by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and co-sponsored by Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), as a more effective means for promoting greater digital ad transparency.Source: FEC Commissioner Says Agency Limited in Ability to Regulate Online Political Ads...
When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign. Before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music.Source: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC...
The House Republican tax plan would upend a longstanding measure, known as the Johnson Amendment, that prohibits politicking from the pulpit, and critics say it could turn churches into new conduits for political money.Source: GOP Tax Bill Would Allow Politics from the Pulpit...
