fundraising
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Sep14
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Sep13
Clips Round-up for 9/13/11
Last night at the GOP debate, Rick Perry said <http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/09/13/quote_of_the_day.html> , "if you're saying I can be bought for $5,000, I'm offended." Exactly. It takes a lot more than that!
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Rep. Issa hit with ethics allegations -
Sep07
Supercommittee Member Rob Portman Cancels Fundraisers
When asked about our demand that supercommittee members give up fundraising while they do their work, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) told the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Members aren't going to have the time to be involved in (as many) fundraising events that they would have been. Personally, I've canceled a bunch of events.
Good.
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Sep02
Clips Round-up for 9/2/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Obama executive order gets push from interest groups
Good government groups are still pressing the White House on an executive order on disclosure of government contractor political spending. "If he doesn’t have the guts to do it this year, I don’t see why he’s going to have the guts to do it next year."
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Aug29
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Aug25
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Aug25
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Aug19
Clips Round-up for 8/19/11
Fair Elections/Campaign Finance
Maine Ethics Commission Seeks Clean Election Law Fix
On the proposed solutions: "We can't have a publicly-funded system that sort of, on-purpose, keeps the candidates kind of barefoot and pregnant," said Allison Smith, the co-president of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections.
A Recusal Required -
Aug12
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and the "Silly Criticism" That Isn't Silly At All
Here's a round-up of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's work for the week of Aug 8-Aug 12, 2011.
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Aug09
Clips Round-up 8/9/2011
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Appeals court upholds campaign finance ban on foreign donations