Outside groups, such as super PACs and their more secretive brethren politically active nonprofits, spent more money during the first eight months of the 2018 election cycle than over the same period in any previous cycle.Source: Dark money, super PAC spending surges ahead of 2018 midterms...
In the late spring of 2011, Dale Schultz walked the short block in Madison from his State Senate office in the Wisconsin Capitol to the glass-paneled building of Michael Best & Friedrich, a law firm with deep ties to his Republican Party.Source: The New Front in the Gerrymandering Wars: Democracy vs. Math...
Lost emails, destroyed hard drives, foot dragging, stonewalling, and a smirking, sneering IRS commissioner doing his best to obscure the truth -- this has largely been the response by the Internal Revenue Service to investigations by Congress and FOIA requests from conservative groups trying to disSource: Is the IRS Scandal About to Break Wide Open?...
New York, NY – The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and Protect Democracy filed a lawsuit today in federal court in New York to compel the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of Management and Budget to disclose information to which the publicSource: Brennan Center and Protect Democracy File Suit to...
In 2016, Multnomah County, Oregon, passed, and voters approved, a measure which created contribution limits, expenditure limits, registration requirements, and disclosure requirements for spending related to county races.Source: Daily Caller: Liberals’ Latest Effort To Resist Citizens United (In the News)...
The state’s campaign finance watchdog voted Thursday to flip its longstanding opinion on contribution limits and allow legislators and other candidates to give unlimited sums of money to help Democratic Sen. Josh Newman fight a recall election.Source: Democrat gets break on campaign finance rule...
The Fair Political Practices Commission issued an $8,500 fine on Thursday to Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, for campaign violations during his race in the 2014 election.Source: Merced’s Gray fined for campaign violations, FPPC says...
A group of Utah citizens will try to qualify an initiative for the 2018 ballots that abolishes the caucus system for a candidate to get on a primary ballot. Instead the only way for candidates to get on a primary ballot will be by petition. See this story.Source: Future Utah Initiative to Abolish Party Endorsement Conventions as Route for Getting...
Last year, Project Vote sued the Arizona Secretary of State over the high price for a member of the public to obtain the list of registered voters.Source: Arizona Project Vote Lawsuit Resulted in Making List of Registered Voters Far Cheaper...
Lt. Governor Mark Hutchison (R) won't comment on the recall beyond saying he supports the voters "right to choose' but his law firm is serving a legal counsel to the recall committees.Source: Nevada: Lt. Governor's private law firm serving as legal counsel to recall groups...
