Election Day, 2016? Now an ancient memory from a distant time. But the intervening months have allowed us to do some math and determine, finally, the price tag for the whole shebang. We can now report that the total cost of the election was nearly $6.Source: Election 2016: Trump’s free media helped keep cost down, but fewer donors provided more of...
Via Bloomberg BNA, comes news of this motion to dismiss or affirm a challenge brought by the Republican Party of Louisiana to the soft money limits in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (the McCain-Feingold law). The Court upheld those limits in McConnell v.Source: In Surprise Move, Trump DOJ Defends McCain-Feingold’s Soft Money Limits at #SCOTUS...
For human and socio-economic development, just as we need professional teachers, doctors, engineers and economists, we need professional politicians as well, to have specialised, measurable input.Source: Professional politicians...
My grandmother Sylvia moved from Brooklyn to Iowa when she was 89 years old. It was a culture shock, to say the least. When my mom took her to vote, she complained of the candidates, “there isn’t anybody who’s Jewish!”Source: Iowa’s New Voter-ID Law Would Have Disenfranchised My Grandmother...
The Iowa Senate gave final approval Thursday to contentious legislation that will require voters to show government-issued identification at the polls and will reduce the time period for early voting. "This change goes hand in hand with a voter suppression bill," Bisignano said. The legislation makes sweeping changes to Iowa's elections laws that Republicans say are needed to ensure the...
In January, less than a week into his presidency, Trump told lawmakers that between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused him to lose the popular vote — though not the election itself — to Democrat Hillary Clinton. He told senators a tale about ineligible voters being bussed into New Hampshire from Massachusetts. Trump then tapped Vice President Mike...
Legislators in California are eyeing an earlier position on the 2020 presidential primary calendar. There has been legislation (SB 568) to do something with the California presidential primary that has been active in the Golden state legislature since February.Source: California and the 2020 Prime Time Primary...
When Ann Ravel resigned from her post at the Federal Election Commission earlier this year, she made it clear that her activism would continue from outside the agency.Source: Ravel’s Support for Ending PACs Exposes Her Long-Term Policy Goals...
On April 7, Montana Governor Steve Bullock signed HB 288. It requires a filing fee of $1,740 for candidates who want to appear on a presidential primary ballot.Source: Montana Governor Signs Bill to Require Presidential Primary Candidates to Pay a Filing Fee...
WASHINGTON — At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump told those gathered that he supported the “right to worship according to our own beliefs.” For many Catholics there Feb.Source: Pulpit Politics: Will Trump’s plan for religious freedom make churches the next SuperPACs?...
