Just in time to beat Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to the punch, Hillary Clinton released a comprehensive campaign finance reform plan aimed at reducing the influence of wealthy interests and boosting the power of small donors.Source: Bernie Sanders is pushing Hillary Clinton to care about money in politics...
Hillary Clinton’s release of her campaign finance proposals on Tuesday confirms there will be no significant substantive differences on political reform among the aspirants for the Democratic presidential nomination but a huge gulf between the two parties, whoever the nominees.Source: Clinton's campaign finance proposal & the long road to reform...
Larry Lessig is not the first single-issue candidate in American presidential history, but from Tom Mann’s perspective, he picked the wrong issue. Mann says that to isolate money-in-politics, to treat it as the key to solving all other problems, is to “dumb down” politics.Source: The Lessig-Mann Dust-Up -...
Our political discourse is shrinking to fit our smartphone screens. If traditional print and broadcast media required candidates to be nouns—stable, coherent figures—social media pushes them to be verbs, engines of activity.Source: How Social Media Is Ruining Politics...
It is becoming clear that the road to the White House in 2016 leads straight through Silicon Valley.Source: Which Presidential Candidate Is Winning the Tech Money Race?...
Ted Cruz. (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)Most presidential candidates have one, perhaps two super PACs championing their cause. It appears Ted Cruz has six. Three of those are exclusively funded by one donor or a family of donors.Source: The perplexing case of the Ted Cruz super PACs...
Shown notes from his district office’s staff retreat, Rep. Michael M. Honda allegedly acknowledged to ethics investigators that what he was seeing was “open to a lot of interpretation, but it doesn’t look good.”Source: House Ethics Committee Extends Review of Mike Honda...
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association v.Source: Anti-Citizens United initiative case to be argued in October...
[Commentary] Selfies, that ubiquitous phenomenon of the current decade, have provoked countless discussions on generational shifts, humans’ narcissistic tendencies and the ability of technology to transform every interaction in our lives. Now they’ve provoked a constitutional question.Source: Voter selfies are great, but a secret ballot is greater...
But the recent complaints could signal a shift from how the parties have approached complaints in the past. The source believes the creation of the American Democracy Legal Fund is a sign that filing FEC complaints could become an establishment-endorsed tactic in campaigns.Source: “Parties Play Politics With FEC Complaints”...
