Daily Media Links

In the News Washington Journal: Brad Smith Topic: Guest will discuss his opposition to the recently defeated DISCLOSE Act,  the emergence of Super PACs ...

CCP Big Money in Politics or Business as Usual?  By Sarah Lee CCP President David Keating took part in a discussion of money in ...

In the News SF Chronicle: Dems’ Disclose Act would stifle speech  Debra J. Saunders David Keating, president for the Center for Competitive Politics, believes ...

In the News Wall Street Journal: Faux Campaign Finance Reform  By Jason L. Riley The political theater in the U.S. Senate Monday was worthy ...

In the News Politico: DISCLOSE Act fails again in Senate By TARINI PARTI “There are plenty of ads that are lobbying related,” Keating said. “You ...

In the News NRO: Disclose Is a SHAM By Brad Smith It’s an election year, and incumbents are nervous. And so, in a classic ...

Independent groups Bloomberg: Super-PACs: Little From Corporations By Mark Silva A Bloomberg Government study finds that corporate money has largely stayed out of the ...

CCP Materiality and corporate political disclosure  By Allen Dickerson Alison Frankel yesterday discussed shareholder activism in an interesting blog post on Thomson Reuters. She ...

CCP Media check: what is “huge” in campaign spending?  By Brad Smith In Illinois, Governor Pat Quinn has signed a law which lifts all ...

In the News Reuters: Can shareholder activism affect corporate political spending?  By Alison Frankel “Materiality has to be about the corporation’s budget,” Dickerson told me. ...