2012
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Jun24
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and How to Call the Fat Cats Fat
Here's a round-up of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's work for the week of June 20-24, 2011.
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Jun21
Clips Round-up for 6/21/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections"Stephen Colbert is assuring the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that the dollar bills he collected in exchange for handshakes outside of their building last month went to him and not the 'super PAC' he's hoping to form."
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Jun20
Clips Round-up for 6/20/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections"The FEC this week sent a letter demanding Crossroads GPS, the Karl Rove-backed nonprofit that pumped millions of dollars in anonymous donations into last year's Congressional campaigns, disclose its contributors. The request appears unlikely to be honored but it could signal an effort to tighten regulations on controversial third-party groups."
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Jun07
Clips Round-up for 6/7/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Why the 2012 election will be the most expensive ever -
May31
Clips Round-up for 5/31/11
Make sure to check out the launch of ThinkProgress's redesigned site: http://www.thinkprogress.org.
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May11
Clips Round-up for 5/11/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
New poll: Maine voters overwhelmingly want to keep Clean Elections
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May03
Campaign Ad Controversy
On Friday, Democrats launched a new outside spending group, Priorities USA, in hopes of competing with conservative outfits that spent big influencing the 2010 election. Public Campaign Communications Director Adam Smith discussed the group on CBS News.
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May02
Clips Round-up for 5/2/11
Priorities USA Roundup
Obama's campaign ad controversy
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7364466n&tag=contentMain%3BcontentBody
Adam Smith was briefly on CBS Evening News on Saturday to talk about the new Democratic outside group, Priorities USA. Lots of those on this list in the news over this. Here's a sampling: -
Apr25
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Apr06
Clips Round-up for 4/6/11
Campaign Finance/Ethics
Durbin, Alec Baldwin: Pushing Plan to Cute Big Money Out of Campaigns
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/04/durbin_alec_baldwin_pushing_pl.html
The Chicago Sun Times covers Sen. Dick Durbin’s press release on the introduction of the Fair Elections Now Act.
Ben & Jerry on the “Personhood” of Citizens United