I guess if you invite donors it’s technically a campaign event.
Campaign finance laws are a total joke. I think in the age of the internet we can put a hard cap on campaign spending. You can have a website. You can publish position papers and make videos. You can hold rallies and give speeches. But not much else. No advertising. No private parties. Extremely limited campaign staff. Unlimited unpaid volunteers.
We need to take the money out of campaigns as much as possible and make the campaigns about issues and positions the candidate stands for.
FWIW, I think party affiliation should be removed from ballots. The political party you belong to is about as relevant as which moose lodge you belong to. Gotta get rid of party politics and party money and pac money.
Politics and politicians are a total joke. A sad sick joke. I don't know how we get out of this. This is more than the 'DC swamp'. Swamps generally have boundaries. The current US political swamp covers all of America, without boundaries.
It’s also hilarious that you can’t buy peoples votes but you can promise them wealth transfer to them if you’re elected.
This goes beyond ‘reasonable’ though. Regular sports tickets are nowhere close to this. It is lavish and should be considered a bribe. Certainly a grey area.
If we’ve learned anything from the cynical debacle that was McCain /Feingold, it’s that the more laws you pass the less transparent campaigning becomes. The same people clamoring for CFR were immediately looking for loopholes in the in the legislative fabric so they could continue funneling money to their candidates and causes. Don’t be fooled by laws and certainly don’t out any faith in laws written by the very people they are purportedly designed to control.