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Oct05
Clips Round-up for 10/5/12
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Obama raised a "record" $150 million in September, but as Dan Eggen at Washington Post points out, "One aide said the campaign had its best fundraising month 'ever,' while another said only that it was a record for 2012.
Oct04Clips Round-up for 10/4/12
Watch the debate last night? Romney did hit Obama on Solyndra and favors for "contributors," but that was the extent of campaign finance chat. Though, NFL player and noted marriage equality advocate Chris Kluwe did have something to say. He tweeted: "You know what I want to see debated? Campaign finance reform. Citizens United. Term limits. Tax reform. Cure the disease, not the symptoms."
Oct02clips round-up for 10/2/12
Public Campaign Action Fund and Democracy Corps released new polling yesterday of 54 battleground districts. PCAF's David Donnelly: “The verdict is in: voters in the most competitive congressional districts have seen what an unfettered system of campaign spending looks like—and they don’t like it.
Oct01Clips Round-up for 10/1/12
Public Campaign Action Fund and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner are having a press call at 10 AM EDT today on some new polling on $$ in politics issues in top battleground Congressional districts. Here's the info.
Sep28Clips Round-up for 9/28/12
The New York Times broke the story yesterday that George Soros wrote a $1 million check to Priorities USA Action and two $500,000 checks to Congressional super PACs.
Sep27Clips Round-up for 9/27/12
Last night, Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown had fundraisers scheduled. Warren's was a low-dollar trivia night in Somerville, Brown's was a $1,000 a ticket event at Chef Michel Richard's Central in DC. PCAF used the opportunity to take a look at the lobbyist cash in the race.
Sep25Clips Round-up for 9/25/12
Sep24Clips Round-up for 9/24/12
The New York Times looked at how Mitt Romney talks to donors and voters. There's overlap, sure, but "a review of his remarks at dozens of fund-raisers, in well-off neighborhoods from Los Angeles to Miami over the past year, highlights differences both subtle and significant in how he speaks to voters and donors, the two most important constituencies in his bid for the White House."
Sep21Clips Round-up for 9/21/12
Here’s a round-up of the discussion yesterday with Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.), Public Campaign’s Nick Nyhart, and other reformers. The press release also has a summary of the mechanisms in Sarbanes’s Grassroots Democracy Act.
Campaign Finance/Fair ElectionsSep18Clips Round-up for 9/18/12
What interesting things that are said behind closed doors to a candidate's financial backers! The big news yesterday was the release by Mother Jones of leaked videos from a private Romney fundraiser, in which donors—who paid $50,000 to attend—heard him make disparaging comments about the 47 percent of Americans who do not pay a net income tax.