Tired of automated phone calls urging you to vote for a certain candidate or pitching you a cruise vacation? You can now tell your phone company that federal regulators say it's OK to block them. The question now is whether the phone companies have the...
Assume general agreement that the Federal Election Commission is putting on a poor show nowadays. The Commissioners are snarling at one another, tweeting out their grievances, withholding simple courtesies, and just snappish.Source: The FEC's Problems -...
Originally published: June 19, 2015 Last updated: June 19, 2015 - 6:55pm Coverage Type: analysis [Commentary] You’re about to get a crash-course in how to avoid eliciting an angry public statement from a pop icon. Know the legal terrain (a.k.a. “Musical Copyright 101”).Source: Campaigns, Copyrights,...
We hear a lot these days about a “dysfunctional” Federal Election Commission, including from the Agency’s own Chair, Ann Ravel, who, after a promising start, has apparently decided it’s not worth the trouble to work constructively within the Agency she nominally heads, and Commissioner ElleSource:...
The super PAC supporting Carly Fiorina for president changed its name Monday from Carly for America to CARLY for America super PAC, which stands for: ConservativeAuthenticResponsiveLeadership forYou and ...
--MR. TRUMP, WE MEET AGAIN: Donald Trump -- the real estate mogul, reality television star and hair icon -- will announce today whether or not he will launch his first run for the White House at the iconic Trump Tower in New York City, ABC's...
Jeb Bush on Monday officially declared that he’s running for president, following a long period of staffing up, traveling and fundraising as an all-but-declared candidate. For months he has been snapping up some of the most prominent names in establishment Republican politics.Source: The power players...
The Internal Revenue Service may have found 6,400 emails from Lois Lerner, who oversaw the tax agency’s Exempt Organizations Unit, but they aren’t sharing and their excuse is priceless!Source: IRS Finds 6,400 Lois Lerner Emails But Won't Hand Em Over...
The Iowa Republican Party's central committee voted unanimously to kill the party's presidential straw poll on Friday, a move the state GOP chairman blamed on the lack of candidates participating this year.Source: Iowa GOP votes to kill its presidential straw poll...
Once again, a new kind of shadowy organization is threatening the integrity of our nation’s public and political engagement.Source: On Clarifying IRS Rules for Nonprofits, Senator Hatch Takes Bold Stand on Both Sides of Issue...
