Campaign Finance Reform Flashcards
After Watergate, the federal government passed laws to prevent election corruption. The laws (disclosure of funds, no foreign money, spend as much of your own $) were titled…
FECA. Has a president register for FECA so their funds can be monitored.
Immediately, FECA was challenged and upheld by the Supreme Court case…
Buckly v Valeo
Fast forward to 1992 and the laws need to be updated. A democratic and a republican senator came up with this 4 letter acronym…
BCRA (Stops soft money contributors)
What are PACs?
Organizations that pool funds from contributors and uses it for or against the candidate.
Among the things that the BCRA did was ban soft money and alert citizens as to whom advertisements were coming from by this end of commercial statement…
My name is _____ and I approve this message.
Campaign finance becomes the wild west when the Supreme Court rules that the donation of money by unions is a form of free speech in this landmark Supreme Court case…
Citizens United v. FEC
What happened in Citizens United v. FEC
anti corruption interest is not sufficient to displace the speech in question from Citizens United and that “independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.”
Groups of like minded individuals who join together for a common purpose such as the AARP and NRA are called…
Interest groups
For an interest group to be effective they need to hire wonderful talkers and influencers. These people are called…
Lobbyists
Some lobbyists come from being members of Congress. This process of going from a member of Congress to a lobbyist is called…
The Revolving Door
Unions can act as powerful interest groups when possessing skilled workers. A threat to unions are those members who reap benefits but do not pay dues. Those members are called…
Free Riders
