Article: Election panel widens probe

Article: Contractors kicked in $84,000 to city summit
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  August 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... election campaign. RM Towill Corp., Park Engineering, CH2M Hill, Water Resources Inc., Mitsunaga ... contributions to the environmental summit. State campaign spending records show that Park Engineering's officers and their relatives gave more ...

Article: Supreme Court refuses to reconsider ruling banning ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 17, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... from 33 states seeking to control campaign spending, refused Monday to reconsider its ... reform, who contend that unlimited campaign spending fuels both real and perceived political ... political contributions but held that campaign-spending limits were violations of freedom ...

Article: Estimating the effect of campaign spending on ...
American Political Science Review;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... congressional reelection rates is the large campaign spending advantage enjoyed by incumbents ... academic literature that incumbent campaign spending has an important effect on congressional ... will influence their behavior. If campaign spending effects are trivial, then concerns ...

Article: In Landmark Ruling, Federal Appeals Court Upholds Campaign ...
U.S. Newswire;  August 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... issued a landmark ruling upholding campaign spending limits, the first such appellate ... Circuit in Manhattan upheld Vermont's campaign spending limits for its state elections ... years of experience demonstrate that campaign spending limits are constitutionally justified ...

Article: Federal Appeals Court To Hear Campaign Spending ...
U.S. Newswire;  May 3, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... constitutionality of Vermont's campaign spending limits, the first such limits ... current system of unlimited campaign spending. The outcome of the Vermont ... have a dramatic impact on campaign spending across the country. "The ...

Article: Federal Court Opens Door to Revisiting Constitutionality of ...
U.S. Newswire;  August 10, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... of the constitutionality of campaign spending limits. While striking down ... invalidated congressional campaign spending limits and which sanctioned the current system of unlimited campaign spending across the country. The court ...

Article: Justices strike blow to campaign spending caps
The Boston Globe;  November 17, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... challenge to its 1976 ruling that campaign spending limits violate the right to free ... reconsider their position that unlimited campaign spending is a form of free speech. In a related ... nation's first mandatory limit on campaign spending in state elections. Vermont enacted ...