Analysis & Commentary
Campaign Finance Reform
That’s One Expensive Barbecue
Presidential candidate George W. Bush has put down $43,500 of the $37 million he has raised to rent a plot of land for a day outside the Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. The reason for this astronomical land grab? The Iowa Republican Party is holding a non-
– 08/12/99
Gov. Bush Can Show the Way on Campaign Spending
The announcement that Gov. George W. Bush raised an eye-popping $36.3 million in the first six months of 1999 has raised the question of whether he would forgo public funding and its accompanying voluntary spending limits for the presidential primary seas
– 07/13/99
This Mr. Smith should not go to Washington
– 06/09/99
An Independent Counsel We Can Live Without
Atty. Gen. Janet Reno seems to be torn over a choice between two investigations into campaign finance abuses in the 1996 presidential elections.
– 09/15/98
Congress Fiddles While Parties Burn Campaign Finance Laws
While Democrats and Republicans on Capital Hill debate the merits of campaign finance reform, the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party are busy at work in federal court seeking to undermine the last remaining vestiges of federal cam
– 06/29/98
Free TV Speech for Candidates
We own the airwaves. We, the public. Not GE, not Disney, not Westinghouse, and not Rupert Murdoch. But we lend them our airwaves for free, as trustees, in return for a pledge to serve the public interest.
– 06/08/98
The Incumbents’ Case for (Some) Campaign Finance Reform
The conventional wisdom is that genuine campaign finance reform is again doomed to defeat in the upcoming weeks, a victim of incumbents’ sense that the current rules serve their needs well.
– 05/25/98
The Doolittle/Delay Distortions of First Amendment Limits on Campaign Finance Reform
Clearing up John Doolittle and Tom DeLay’s misleading constitutional pronouncements on campaign finance reform.
Authored by: E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Deborah Goldberg
– 05/01/98
How Was Campaign-Finance Reform Killed? By Twisting What the High Court Said
Like the cock of the walk, Senator Mitch McConnell strutted across the Senate floor, preening his new First Amendment feathers and pecking to death the latest (and most modest) of campaign finance reforms set before that body.
– 04/27/98