June 2012
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PCAF: Josh Mandel Doesn't Like Lobbyists...Unless... →
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Bill Clinton to lend star power, Wall Street... →
“Bill Clinton will appear with President Obama at a triple-header of fundraisers in New York on Monday, lending his star power and fundraising prowess just days after he tweaked Obama for going after Republican Mitt Romney’s private business record.
“Clinton brings to the Obama reelection campaign strong ties to wealthy New York donors, including those in the financial services...
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Cynics United: When Did Conservatives Change... →
“Disclosure was waved as a talisman against actual regulation, but when disclosure is an actual option, conservatives treat it as a mortal danger to liberty.”
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WatchA great report from ABC News on the “bundlers” to presidential campaigns and what they may want in return. Jake Tapper notes that while the Obama campaign has released its bundlers, the Romney camp has refused to do so and has not provided one good reason for the secrecy.
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Romney super PAC donor hosting fundraiser for him
An Oregon hotelier connected to a mysterious donation to the Romney-aligned “Restore Our Future” super PAC is on the host committee for a fundraiser for Romney’s campaign on Monday.
Restore Our Future received $50,000 in January from “Buena Vista Investments LLC,” a company registered to Sondland. Sondland donated $2,500 to Romney’s campaign just one month before, according to...
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“All told, the immense amount of money in American campaigns, the cozy...”
– AP, via @jackgillum
“It’s go time. It’s time to step it up,”
– - A top Democrat involved with one of the outside groups working to reelect the president, as reported in The Hill.
Such left-leaning outside groups are losing the money race to conservatives by a landslide. Organizers are under intense pressure to prod, poke and convince wealthy liberal donors to...
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“During my brief involvement with adolescent athletics, I never complained when I...”
– Jamelle Bouie, American Prospect.
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WatchGov. Buddy Roemer was on The Rachel Maddow Show last night about the corrupting influence of big money on our democracy.
May 2012
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Sensitive Donors →
The Courts have given wealthy individuals the ability to tremendously influence our political process—influence that most people can’t even dream of having—and in a free country, we deserve to know about it.
Conservative hero Justice Antonin Scalia once said about a case involving the disclosure of petition signatures, “running a democracy takes a certain amount of civic courage.” Courage...
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“Voters send people to Congress because they think they’ll do what’s in their...”
– Public Campaign Action Fund Communications Director Adam Smith on legislation introduced by Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) that would solely benefit a campaign donor.
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Politico: Bill would give single bank a $300M... →
“The bill has drawn no objections so far from bank regulators or the Obama administration, and proponents argue it is narrowly designed to help a community bank unfairly harmed by the controversial Dodd-Frank law.
“But it is also an object lesson in how the rich and powerful — backed by a team of high-powered lobbyists — can get Congress to act on their issues, even as Capitol Hill...
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Rolling Stone: Florida GOP Takes Voter Supression... →
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NYT: Obama Finds Campaigning Rules Clock →
Running for re-election takes up a lot of time—and a lot of that time is being spent raising money.
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Elections of, by, and for the elite
Politico reports this morning:
“Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives – including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – plan to spend roughly $1 billion on November’s elections for the White House and control of Congress, according to officials familiar with the groups’ internal...
