Get your fix of CCP vice president for policy Allison Hayward today…
Hayward will appear as part of a panel on the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission at 12 p.m. today. The discussion will be aired live on C-SPAN.
Here’s the description:
Listen to campaign finance experts, journalists, political theorists, and historians discuss the impact of this controversial case, the legislation that has been proposed to amend it, and the critical relationship between campaign expenditures and American democracy.
Moderator: Sidney M. Milkis, White Burkett Miller Professor of Politics and Assistant Director for Academic Programs at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.
Panelists include: Michael J. Malbin, Executive Director of the Campaign Finance Institute, Professor of Political Science, University at Albany (SUNY); Nancy Rosenblum, Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Department of Government, Harvard University; Gerald Berk, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon.
Responses will be offered by: Allison Hayward, Vice President of Policy, Center for Competitive Politics; Peter Overby, NPR’s Washington Correspondent on Power, Money and Influence; Spencer Overton, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School; Trevor Potter, head of the Political Activity Law Practice at Caplin and Drysdale, President and General Counsel of the Campaign Legal Center.
Hayward will then appear on Baltimore-area radio station WBAL at 2:30 p.m. to discuss her recent commentary in National Review Online, “Democrats’ Glass Houses” over the concerted campaign to discredit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by falsely alleging some of its political funding comes from foreign donors.
A snippet:
“By waging unsubstantiated rhetorical assaults on his opposition, and then demanding that they prove their innocence, Obama is headed into the domain of demagoguery—maybe even McCarthyism,” White House reporter Keith Koffler wrote in Politico. The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board termed Obama’s effort “fear-mongering.” Pat Caddell, an advisor to President Carter, didn’t mince words: “I was the youngest person on Richard Nixon’s enemies list. I take this stuff seriously. What they’re doing is Nixonian—it’s McCarthyite.”
A president should rise above such shallow vindictiveness—especially if he himself has been subjected to rumors about foreign influence. In fact, the current firestorm over the Chamber harks back to a 2008 controversy over alleged foreign donors to Obama’s presidential campaign.
If you’re in the D.C.-Baltimore-area, you can pick up the discussion at 2:30 p.m. Otherwise, listen on WBAL’s website.
