Opinion
Cash Doesn’t Dictate Votes
To say that private, voluntary funding of campaigns is inherently and systematically corrupt is to go beyond reasonable precautions and a fair-minded reading of the data. It is a set-up.
Opinion
Flashback: A Solution for Disclosure
Advocates of campaign-finance reform are upset about the prominence of independent expenditures in the 2010 election cycle. But they helped make it happen.
Opinion
Voters Lost Money & Freedom
Now that Republicans run the General Assembly, they are going to move bills to restore party labels and end taxpayer funding of judicial elections.
Opinion
A Solution for Political Disclosure
Advocates of campaign-finance reform are upset about the prominence of independent expenditures in the 2010 election cycle. But they helped make it happen.
Opinion
Flashback: Protecting Politicians
Because incumbents start a campaign with valuable advantages such as name recognition, challengers must often outspend incumbents to be competitive.
Opinion
No. 706: Forget Reform: Politics Corrupts Money
On Sept. 8, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the heated battle over campaign finance reform legislation — the so-called Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. I won’t offer any prediction as to how the court will rule. But I will offer some thoughts on how the court ought to rule. It ought to declare the BCRA unconstitutional and should do so in language that doesn’t encourage Congress to go back to the drawing board.
Opinion
On campaign finance deform
Journalists are under the mistaken notion that the First Amendment gives them rights and prerogatives not provided to Microsoft, GE, GM, and their executives. But free speech applies to everyone, not that campaign finance reformers care.
Opinion
Symbol Becomes Substance
A previous “reform” of campaign finance laws keeping lawmakers from raising money from lobbyists during session started out as a useless symbol. Now some are alleging even worse.
Opinion
Campaign Finance Deform
Two things that aren't real: the tooth fairy and campaign finance reform.
