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CREW affiliate attempts to stifle speech in Colorado
When Hillary Clinton-votarist David Brock “acquired” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) last August DC insiders immediately recognized the significance. Politico described it as “a major power play that aligns liberal muscle more fully behind the Democratic Party
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The FEC, ‘the system,’ and the cave
Amidst alleged intractable difficulties, FEC Chairwoman Ann Ravel has been hosting vanity panels and blitzing reverent media with woebegone tales of Commission “paralysis,” “dysfunction,” and “public betrayal.” Despite her full schedule, however, her quest’s philosophical underpinnings remain in tatters.
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FEC dysfunction a California dream
As the saying goes you can’t swing a dead cat around Washington, DC without hitting someone—a journalist, reformer, professor, or Chairwoman—complaining about the Federal Election Commission’s dysfunction. (One particularly uninformed reporter stated the Commission had come to a “complete halt.”).
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Hillary Clinton: The Woman with the Plan—to have a Plan
April 22, 2015
Attempting to preempt restless progressives unsatisfied with her Democrat coronation, Hillary Clinton’s consultants went to the drawing board. Bemoaning political money and calling for campaign finance reform was one easy fix they discovered to mollify all those potential progressive check writers and precinct walkers.
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Larry Lessig’s Corruption Copout
April 13, 2015
Having retooled Mayday PAC, Harvard professor Larry Lessig has jumped to his next project: describing the political system as ‘corrupt’ while avoiding the term for participants. His intellectual voyage travels as well as Mayday’s maiden venture.
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Why Mayday PAC 2.0 will fail
March 4, 2015
Exciting times are here for Larry Lessig’s Mayday PAC. The Harvard law professor that doesn’t know the difference between a PAC and a 501(c)(4) is revamping his irony-embracing Super PAC to end all Super PACs. In about a week, Mayday PAC 2.0 will go live and Lessig is no doubt hoping for better results.
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CREW’s Nefarious Aims and Intentions
February 17, 2015
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) doesn’t like playing defense. After FEC Commissioner Lee E. Goodman slammed the agitprop group for a speech-stifling proposal during last week’s FEC hearing, indignation ensued. In short order, the self-styled “watchdog” produced an umbrage-taking blog post and tweet.
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Tide turns in FEC battle for regulation-free internet
January 9, 2015
On March 29, 1960, the New York Times advertised an advocacy group’s call for political change in the segregated South. The ad was propaganda and clearly embellished facts for effect. Government functionaries implicated by the ad sued for libel. The resulting case, New York Times v. Sullivan, was a landmark victory for free speech. It reaffirmed America’s “profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide open.”
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