"No recession here: Election spending sets records"

The AP lede on spending this cycle: "Turns out politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry."

The news comes with a cocktail of proposed reform: Monica Youn sums up, Dan Smith presses the Fair Election Now Act, and Jennifer Taub channels Lesley Gore in favor of the Shareholder Protection Act.

Posted by Justin Levitt at September 7, 2010 03:24 PM