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Thursday, March 04, 2010
CQ Politics: Testing a Court Decision and Campaign Clout

CQ Politics notes that "Now that the case of Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission has opened the door for outside groups to spend unlimited sums on television advertising and other campaign expenditures in federal races, some Kentucky insiders believe that Democratic Rep. Ben Chandler’s 6th district will be the test case."

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Tags: Kentucky


Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Family Money Not The Same as Personal Funds, Says Kentucky Campaign Finance Regulators

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports "Metro Council member Jim King, a Democratic candidate for mayor, violated campaign-finance laws last year when he gave his daughter $145,000 during her election campaign for District Court, the staff of the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance has found in a preliminary report. . . . The report says the state’s limit on contributions 'contains no exceptions for family members.'" This is the rule in most jurisdictions, including at the federal level. At least two former FEC Commissioners, Brad Smith and Michael Toner, have questioned whether this makes any sense.

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Tags: Kentucky, FEC