The First Amendment guarantees every American freedom of speech. That freedom includes the right to spend money on speech. Without money, a political group cannot buy ads, print fliers, organize protests, or hire staff. Short of shouting one’s opinions on a street corner, it takes money to spread a message. Recognizing this relationship, the Supreme Court has long prohibited the…
Although the Commission’s proposal has many pitfalls and paradoxes, CCP notes some of the ones that stand out the most: The proposed changes would make ...
The Center for Competitive Politics (“CCP”) submits these comments in response to the revisions the Texas Ethics Commission (the “Commission”) made at its August ...
In a well-publicized study, Gilens and Page argue that economic elites and business interest groups exert strong influence on US government policy while average citizens ...
If the government is considering a law that would damage your business, how would you respond? According to a new poll from the Public Affairs ...
It has become a hallmark of election season chatter to read stories about money “flooding into politics” in various media outlets. Usually, these discussions ...
Those rules, if adopted, would make a number of unlawful changes to Ariz. Admin. Code R2-20-109(F). The latest version of the proposal appears either ...
CCP commends the Commission for continuing to proceed in the right direction with this rulemaking. The amendments the Commission adopted resolve some of the ...
A short while back, on Professor Rick Hasen’s invaluable listserv, there was a spirited discussion about the meaning of “dark money” as used in ...
The Center for Competitive Politics (“CCP”)[1] submits these comments in response to your office’s initial draft of its proposed changes to Montana’s campaign finance ...
Writing at The Washington Post’s Plum Line blog, Paul Waldman asks, (in the headline writer’s fair summary) “Republicans have won the battle over money ...