Elections and Campaign Money II

Second writing assignment.

For Monday, read Schatzinger, ch. 4-6.

Start thinking about what group you want to write about for the research paper (and possibly portray for the simulation)

Some postscripts on legal tactics:

• Google, a front group, and an amicus brief
• Monsanto v. a professor at Albany

Disclosure and disclaimer

• Reporting 
• The disclaimer rules
• More on 501(c)(4)
• LLCs to conceal identities 
• https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/04/surge-in-llc-contributions-more-mystery/ 
• Essential Consultants LLC https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/politics/michael-cohen-shell-company-payments.html
• The "issue advocacy" loophole

• American Action Network

The dark money churn.

The donor class

• The NYT article on donors to outside groups (Schatzinger 54) 54) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/11/us/politics/2016-presidential-election-super-pac-donors.html 
• Liberal dark money

Following the Money

• Limitations of public information
• Candid and Form 990
• More at Candid
• SourceWatch (liberals investigating conservatives) and Capital Research Center (conservatives investigating liberals)

What do they get for their money?

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