Mitt Romney bundler a registered agent for United Arab Emirates
Campaign financial disclosure week is always fun. Just look what we've found out about Republican front-runner Mitt Romney. A full 25 percent of his campaign funds comes from just 41 obscenely wealthy people. Just 58 donors gave more than $14.8 millio...
Super PAC funding dominated by six figure donors
So Mitt Romney isn't the only Republican presidential candidate bankrolled by a very, very small subset of the very, very wealthy. Check out this chart put together by TPM.
The bottom line here, a relative handful of individuals contributed massive am...
Wall Street donors swamp all others in election spending
This is enough to turn your stomach.
FIRE stands for the finance, insurance, and real estate sector, or in other words, Wall Street. The Sunlight Foundation study reveals that in the past two decades, the number of donors giving $10,000 or more from t...
Wall Street donors swamp all others in election spending
This is enough to turn your stomach.
FIRE stands for the finance, insurance, and real estate sector, or in other words, Wall Street. The Sunlight Foundation study reveals that in the past two decades, the number of donors giving $10,000 or more from t...
Secretive right-wing groups pour millions into Ohio’s Issue 2 fight
Pay no attention to the man corporate person
behind the curtain
In Ohio's Issue 2 fight, as in so many elections these days, it's hard to take the classic advice "follow the money." On one side we know: Unions and grassroots donors have made sure tha...
Herman Cain campaign may have violated campaign finance laws
Herman Cain aide Mark Block isn't just the smoking star of a bizarre campaign ad;
his nonprofit organization may have illegally underwritten the early days of the Cain campaign.
Herman Cain's campaign may be raising $5 million per month now, but thin...
Super Congress membership leads to super fundraising for Republican Dave Camp
The Super Congress succeeded in creating a ton of jobs for lobbyists. Looks like it's also lucrative for its members.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions since his...
The further collapse of campaign finance regulation
First the Supreme Court affirmed that the First Amendment allowed corporations to engage in unlimited independent expenditures on behalf of candidates. Two months later, the DC Circuit held (and the FEC did not appeal) that if individual corporations ...
Newt Gingrich preaches principled opposition to mounting debt while $1 million in the red
Sure, he's sinking like a rock in a well in the polls, and he'll be battling Jon Huntsman and Fred Karger for the cellar in the GOP sweepstakes before long. But can't we keep Newt Gingrich around just a little bit longer, please? The entertainment val...
Newt Gingrich preaches principled opposition to mounting debt while $1 million in the red
Sure, he's sinking like a rock in a well in the polls, and he'll be battling Jon Huntsman and Fred Karger for the cellar in the GOP sweepstakes before long. But can't we keep Newt Gingrich around just a little bit longer, please? The entertainment val...
Supreme Court Takes Death Row Appeal, Turns Down Campaign Finance Challenge
Filed under: Law, Supreme CourtAn Alabama man, convicted of two killings in 1997, will get his day before the high court, after paper-work mix-ups halted his earlier appeals. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |&n...
Supreme Court Takes Death Row Appeal, Turns Down Campaign Finance Challenge
Filed under: Law, Supreme CourtAn Alabama man, convicted of two killings in 1997, will get his day before the high court, after paper-work mix-ups halted his earlier appeals. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |&n...
