Talk:Campaign finance in the United States

message: This sentence seems to be missing something:
: "An independent expenditure is an expenditure for a communication which FEC's Public Records Office or online at the FEC's web site."
Here's the relevant section of FEC site if someone wants to take a shot at it. Thanks. Sighrik 03:47, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Independent Expenditures 

message: I'm pretty sure that McCain did not accept public financing for the primaries. This is all over the news, but here's one source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/20/politics/main3852212.shtml. The link that's currently in there shows that he did indeed qualify, but says nothing about him accepting it. I'm changing this, just thought I'd let everyone know.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.204.94.158 (talk) 21:42, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public financing for McCain 

message: Isn't it true that Obama initially said during the primary season he would not accept matching funds, but later reversed himself and did? That ought to be mentioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.140.254.10 (talk) 12:55, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public financing for Obama 

message: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/21/campaign.finance.ruling/index.html?hpt=T1
The Supreme Court has given corporations considerably more power in campaign finance. CntRational (talk) 17:13, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major change in US campaign finance 

message: This article is largely out of date.  is a November, 2013 paper which may be useful for updating. 173.197.107.11 (talk) 17:53, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're right.  However, while that paper may be a good starting point for further research, it may not meet the requirements of WP:RS as a reliable source (for everything it says in it) to which we could attribute information we provide here. That said...feel free to be WP:BOLD and contribute as you see fit!  AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 22:38, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Campaign Finance Laws, Policy Outcomes, and Political Equality in the American States 

message: I found an article that compiles lots of U.S. campaign finance related terms. It made me realize that many terms — such as 527s — may be unfamiliar to people, so they might not realize that they have to search for it. I wanted to pass along the piece in case there was an effort to compile all of the campaign finance related pages on Wikipedia. I work at WMF but would love to volunteer to help this effort outside of work, and appreciate feedback on whether or not this is a good idea. Melodykramer (talk) 02:33, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glossary for all campaign finance related terms 

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message: I think this article needs a discussion of the impact of money on electoral outcomes.  I plan to add a brief section on that.  If that issue is discussed in some other Wikipedia article, I trust someone will add a link to such other article{s}.  DavidMCEddy (talk) 18:36, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Impact of finance on the results 

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message: Short and Sweet.  Granted, I am not a wikipedian but a simple search references (and yes, to paraphrase Bill Murray in the film Stipes:  Accused but not convicted) the following 'individuals' can 'fit' in such a categorization
John Edwards
Dinesh D'Souza
Hillary Clinton
Anyone Else?  AnyOne ?
All for now.  (You draw your own conclusions and/or points)?
Update:  Missed some big 'fish'(es) in Devin Nunes and AG Steve Marshall
:I think this depends on the level of documentation and who are claiming violations:  
:* If it's one campaign against another, that's standard dirty politics, and I don't think we need that in Wikipedia.  
:* If it's a list of actual sanctions following charges in some way investigated by the US Federal Elections Commission, I think those should be listed in that FEC article, e.g., in a section with a title something like "Partial list of official sanctions following FEC investigations", perhaps right before "See also" and after "Commissioners". (The list should not be limited to "persons", I think.)  
:* If it's a list of sanctions for violations of state campaign finance laws in the US, then that list may belong in this article, but starting with a summary of any such list in the FEC article with a link to it.  
:* Official legal processes against individuals or organizations for violations of campaign finance law might be included with some notice of "status", being either "pending" or "dismissed" or the amount of any fine and / or incarceration.   
:However, nothing should be listed without a "credible source".  
:If you have a list of cases with credible sources for each but you aren't sure of how to make the changes, please post it here or (better?) on Talk:Federal Election Commission.  Then invite others to make the changes.  
:I think such a list would be useful.  If it gets large enough, it could become it's own article.  However, starting small would be good.  Then as others identify credible sources for other alleged violations, those can be added.  DavidMCEddy (talk) 01:51, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  A section or at least a list of campaign finance law infractions and those who have served prison time for such events 

message: Hello, I am wishing to gauge any interest among the Wikipedia community here in a collaborative effort to clean up some elements of this article. After reviewing the input on the talk page, there are some very good and helpful recommendations and resources that just need an action plan to implement and apply the edits. However, the topic is lofty and complicated and could benefit from having a coordinated and collaborative plan of approach. Meanwhile, I will pursue some minor edits in the article to assist with clarity and readability, beginning with organizing some definitions and concepts.  Thanks and best wishes Aquarius2018 (talk) 17:39, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not prepared to make a substantive commitment to helping rewrite this article, but I routinely review changes others to articles that are on my watchlist.  My responses vary from nothing to "Thanks", to minor additional edits to major edits or reversions with a discussion on the "Talk" page.  The standard Wikipedia advice for things like this is "be bold but not reckless."  Do what you feel you have time and energy to do -- with the article or with discussing specifics on this Talk page.  Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 18:55, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gauging Interest From Wiki-Community in Collaborating to Revise/Edit/Polish Campaign Finance Article  

message: Thanks for your recent edits.  Most of them seem to me to add clarity.  
However, I'm confused by your recent insertion of "aimed at political action" in, "Federal law restricts how much individuals and organizations aimed at political action may contribute to political campaigns, political parties, and other FEC-regulated organizations. Corporations and unions are banned from donating money directly to candidates ("hard money") or national party committees."  
I'm reverting this change, because I do not understand it.  For me, the sentence made sense without it.  This addition confuses me.  
If the current verbiage is wrong, please explain how it's wrong and suggest alternative verbiage.  
Thanks again for your contributions to Wikipedia and this article in particular.  DavidMCEddy (talk) 19:33, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "aimed at political action"?   

message: Hi,@ IRS tax codes for organizations that file with IRS for purposes of political action (501 c- groups, effectively termed PACS) are aimed at organizing for political action. The language is specfic about political action. If an organization is filing to create an affiliated PAC with the singluar goal to engage in political activities associated with raising and expending funds, the purpose is literally "aimed at political action".  This above verbiage could be used in place of the phrase this editor orginally employed. This editor's goal was concision, but not confusion. That is why "aimed at political action" was used. If the above verbiage is not satisfactory, we could incorporate the IRS language from the tax code requirments for PACS if you think it would clarify. Thanks.Aquarius2018 (talk) 20:09, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the clarification.  I did some wordsmithing on that.  Feel free to revise it further if you think you have a way to improve what I just wrote.  DavidMCEddy (talk) 20:44, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

text: Thank you. I think your edits work very well to bring the clarification and necessary distinction my words were striving for. Thank you :)Aquarius2018 (talk) 21:16, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re:  

message: During a campaign there are restrictions on what funds can be used for, resulting in campaign finance violations.  (Does the article mention this?) As I understand it, though, and would like to see in this article, after a campaign, a candidate can use all remaining funds for personal use without any questions.  The article also doesn't say this.  Gah4 (talk) 02:24, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: @Gah4 created ethics section for this. Louis P. Boog (talk) 03:06, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  end of the campaign 

message: On 2020-11-14T06:42:51 AnomieBOT replaced a reference to  on this Talk page by one referring to  without checking to see if such a reference already existed.  Now this article has two different references to .  I don't know enough about "WikiProject" anything to do anything sensible with this, except to try to call attention to this apparent duplication and conflict here and in User talk:AnomieBOT.  DavidMCEddy (talk) 08:21, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication and conflict re. "WikiProject United States| ..." 

message: Have been attempting to broaden scope of the article which appeared  to me when I started in late October 2022 to not so much be an article on Campaign finance in the United States in general  (history, danger it poses or doesn't, why people want to regulate it, etc.) as types  of campaign contributions and especially federal laws on campaign contributions. Please forgive my mistakes and  shortcomings as I am researching this as I go and have limited internet access.  --Louis P. Boog (talk) 21:45, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent  edits to broaden scope 

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