Meet The Billionaires Behind The Best Presidents Money Can Buy
The last time we checked on the (funding) status of America’s real presidential race – the one where America’s uber-wealthy try to outspend each other in hopes of purchasing the best president money can buy – the totals were substantially lower. With November 6 rapidly approaching, however, the scramble to [...]
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The Romney-Koch Handshake: Network TV Misses Revealing Moment Between Nominee & Billionaire at RNC
When Mitt Romney walked down the aisle toward the stage Thursday night, among the people whose hands he shook was the conservative billionaire and major political donor David Koch. But it was a moment missed by the tens of millions of viewers at home. While Democracy Now! was there on the floor and captured [...]
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Who’s Donating To The Election?
“The Billion-Dollar Buy,” on outside spending in this election cycle – “Myth of the small donor,” by Kenneth P. Vogel : “Susan Daole last month gave $100 to President Barack Obama because she wanted to fight the flood of million-dollar checks supporting Mitt Romney. ‘I think my contribution in its [...]
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Public Relations Consultant Pleads Guilty In Shadow Money Campaign
Finally! We get some positive enforcement in the “Shadow Money” and shady campaign finance: A public relations consultant pleaded guilty in a scheme to secretly spend $653,000 to help elect Vincent Gray mayor of Washington D.C. in 2010, the Washington Post reports. “Federal prosecutors first disclosed the existence of a [...]
Sick View of a Romney Donor
The Los Angeles Times spoke to an unnamed Mitt Romney donor at a weekend fundraiser in the Hamptons: “I don’t think the common person is getting it. Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them. We’ve got the message. But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody [...]
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Rich Donors Aren’t Helping Romney In Some Cases
RICH DONORS DON’T HELP ROMNEY BY TALKING TO REPORTERS: “As protesters assembled on a beach in advance of Mitt Romney’s evening event at the home of conservative billionaire David Koch, the candidate slipped to East Hampton for his first of three fundraisers on this tony stretch of Long Island,” the [...]
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Stealthy Super PACs Influence Primaries Without Disclosing Donors
It didn’t take the Spirit of America PAC long to make a big impact. Shortly after filing its paperwork to register with the FEC in mid-May, the super PAC was already up and spending more than $160,000 supporting Republican Rep. Paul Cook with a series of media buys during his tightly [...]
IRS Signals Increase In Scrutiny of Tax Exempt Political Organizations
Finally we’re getting a little more action here, where political groups hide behind a Tax Based Mask: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Internal Revenue Service is signaling that it will increase its scrutiny of tax-exempt political organizations, which are becoming a force in elections by raising tens of millions of dollars from undisclosed donors. [...]
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Who’s Really Winning the White House Money Race?
It’s time, once again, for some perspective. Campaign finance disclosures released last week by the presidential campaigns, parties and one of the joint fundraising committees raised a lot of eyebrows and generated speculation about the financial challenge facing the President’s reelection campaign. Viewed in a broader framework, though, it’s [...]
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Conservatives Now Fight for Donor Secrecy
“During their long campaign to loosen rules on campaign money, conservatives argued that there was a simpler way to prevent corruption: transparency. Get rid of limits on contributions and spending, they said, but make sure voters know where the money is coming from,” the Los Angeles Times reports. “Today, with [...]
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Top 10 Outside Political Groups Expenditures
PRO-OBAMA SUPER PAC DOMINATES EARLY JUNE: The pro-Barack Obama Priorities USA Action super PAC has caught major flak for its lackluster fundraising compared to its numerous, right-leaning counterparts. But a PI analysis of federal independent expenditure data indicates the super PAC, run by former White House staffers Bill Burton and [...]
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What Does $10,000, The GOP, Skynyrd, Brooks & Dunn and Night Ranger Have In Common
PI SCOOP… SKYNYRD, ADKINS, KID ROCK LINE UP FOR RNC CONVENTION: Liberty Plaza Events has signed on musical acts Lynyrd Skynyrd (Aug. 26), Trace Adkins (Aug. 28) and Kid Rock (Aug. 29) for the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. Other artists such as Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn, [...]
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AETA “Donated” $7 Million “For Education Causes”
What topics do you suppose they want them to teach? I’m guessing it’s about the benefits of a for-profit, barely-regulated health insurance industry, but that’s just a wild guess. I wonder how many cancer treatments they disallowed to pay for this? NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Insurance giant Aetna inadvertently disclosed more than $7 [...]
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Election 2012 Outside Spending, The Big Picture
Outside Spending: The Big Picture (So Far) Mitt Romney wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination with a good bit of help from Restore Our Future, the super PAC supporting him. But just how big a role has outside spending overall played in the election so far? According to Center [...]
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AETNA Under Fire For $7 Million Undisclosed Campaign Donations
AETNA FACING FIRE FOR POLITICAL DONATIONS: The nonprofit advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is calling out insurance company Aetna today for not disclosing $7 million in political spending. The group sent a letter to the company’s chairman, president and CEO, Mark Bertolini, stating that Aetna contributed more than $3.3 million to the conservative [...]
Where Is The Money?
The Biggest Story of the Campaign First Read: “When it’s all said and done, perhaps the biggest story this presidential season will be all the outside groups — and the big checks funding them — trying to influence this election. And the biggest check-writer of them all so far? Casino [...]
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Massive Political Campaign Spending
Massive Spending So Far This Cycle A Huffington Post survey of federal spending reports “shows that the top 150 consulting companies — media, fundraising, digital/social, direct mail and others — have grossed $465.76 million so far in the 2011-12 electoral season, out of a total of $1.24 billion spent.” “These figures presage [...]
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Is More Secret Election Money On the Horizon?
Did Edwards Mistrial Open Door to More Secret Money? David Frum: “The Edwards deadlock sets an effective new rule: candidates can raise vast sums of money, undisclosed, outside the campaign finance system, to conceal election-losing secrets without fear of legal consequence. The more intimate and personal the secret is — the more [...]
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Romney’s Victory Inc. Under Review
The Mysterious Non-Disclosure of Romney Victory Inc. By now, we should have a complete picture of what the presidential candidates and political party committees raised and spent through the end of April, thanks to filing deadlines earlier this month. But wait: One committee isn’t following the monthly pattern, causing confusion [...]
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“Anti-Incumbent Super PAC” Tries To Fly Under Radar?
Anti-Incumbent Super PAC Strikes Again Tuesday’s defeat of eight-term Democratic Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas was another victory — arguably the most surprising one yet — for the mysterious Campaign for Primary Accountability super PAC. Funded almost exclusively by monthly cash infusions from conservative construction magnate Leo Linbeck III, [...]
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Mystery Health Group Funneled Millions into Conservative Political NonProfits
Exclusive: Mystery Health Group Funneled Millions into Conservative Political NonProfits A secretive, well-funded group whose name gives the misleading impression that it is solely concerned about health care gave more than $44 million in 2010 to other tax-exempt groups, many of which spent millions on TV ads attacking Democrats running [...]
Donate To Your Favorite Politician By Text…Soon…
POLITICAL DONATIONS BY TEXT MESSAGE? THE DAY APPEARS NEAR: After a lengthy hearing, the Federal Election Commission today delayed voting on a case that would legalize political donations by text message. But most of the six commissioners appeared supportive – in principle – to the idea, which companies Red Blue T, ArmourMedia and m-Qube asked the FEC [...]
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Some Anonymous Campaign Donors Must Be Revealed In New Court Ruling
Court Rules Some Anonymous Campaign Donors Must Be Revealed Posted: 16 May 2012 03:00 PM PDT @ Crooks and Liars Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse discusses one of the proposed solutions to the problem of anonymous campaign contributions The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia refused to grant a stay on an [...]
Commentary on How A Big Casino Magnate Become A GOP Donor
HOW A CASINO MAGNATE BECAME A BIG GOP DONOR — From POLITICO’s series, “The Billion-Dollar Buy: Like never before, big dollars are having a big impact on politics and governance. This series examines how the new wide-open fundraising landscape will affect the 2012 campaigns” — Kenneth P. Vogel and Steve [...]
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