Posts tagged campaign cash

Posts tagged campaign cash
Republican fundraisers say the changing views of gay marriage in their party could unlock big money from GOP donors in places like New York, California and Florida — where some Republicans have kept their checkbooks closed over what they saw as misplaced priorities, at best, or intolerance, at worst, at the highest ranks of the party.

- Invite to Sen. Barrasso’s “Oil and Gas Industry Lunch”, via Sunlight Foundation
“Hey Senator, thanks so much for voting to keep our billions in wasteful subsidies in place. Here’s $1,000 for your trouble.”
“After lobbying heavily before the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill became law in 2010, the top payday lenders did not slack off last year, and the companies have become a bigger source of campaign contributions for political candidates this election cycle, according to a report from the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).” (Washington Post)