Jeb Bush calls for amendment to fix Citizens United
Manchester, NH – Don’t like Jeb Bush’s $100 million-plus super PAC? Neither does he.Source: Jeb Bush calls for amendment to fix Citizens United...
Manchester, NH – Don’t like Jeb Bush’s $100 million-plus super PAC? Neither does he.Source: Jeb Bush calls for amendment to fix Citizens United...
On Saturday night, I received an interesting tweet. Indianapolis resident PJ Hinton had seen some TV ads run by a group he didn’t recognize, Indiana Jobs Now, and thought he would look into them.Source: What happened when a super PAC listed Sunlight’s phone number on its ad filing...
“[W]e don’t know how to deal with rumors. Rumors that confirm people’s biases are now believed and spread among millions of people. . .We tend to only communicate with people that we agree with, and thanks to social media, we can mute, un-follow and block everybody else.Source: Politics and Techno-Consciousness...
The Federal Election Commission has not solved the “Super PAC problem,” but then again the Commissioners cannot agree on what the problem is. Others outside the agency are divided in this same way. A number of questions in contemporary campaign finance are like that.Source: The Federal Election Commission's Role in A Reform Program -...
America’s campaign finance laws are often a convenient scapegoat for all of our country’s ills. Witness Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders invoking campaign spending in response to seemingly every other debate question. Now comes Republican Rep.Source: An alternative to nonstop political fundraising...
This story will be updated. After languishing in limbo for nearly five-and-a-half years, one of the most controversial, politically active 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations in the country has been granted nonprofit status by the IRS. The ruling was made official last Nov.Source: IRS gives nonprofit status to Rove’s controversial dark money group...
Alex Seitz-Wald has the scoop. It does not appear this is limited to voters, and courts have ruled that providing transportation to the polls does not violate anti vote-buying prohibitions. (There was a case some years ago in Alaska about discounted gasoline.)Source: Uber Discount on Primary Election Day in NH? Kosher!...
DURHAM, NH — Today, New Hampshire will require voters to bring a photo ID to the ballot box for the first time in its history.Source: New Hampshire Braces For Impact Of New Voter ID Law...
It is also, however, possible that he's been exposed as not ready for prime time. If that is the case, then it is coming awfully late in the game for the establishment wing of the party to vet and settle upon an alternative. I declined to endorse the "three-person race" theory for a reason. My overarching view of the GOP...
Nashua, N.H. Speaking at a country club in New Hampshire on Monday, Jeb Bush said he wants the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision to be overturned.Source: Jeb Bush: Overturn Citizens United...