fundraising
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Aug08
Clips Round-up 8/8/2011
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
I.R.S. handling of donations draws ire of both parties.
A "group of four anonymous political donors is accusing the [I.R.S.] of playing politics on behalf of those Republicans and demanding that it make a decision immediately about whether the gift tax applies to donations to advocacy groups or not."
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Aug05
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and...It's a Lobbyist, It's a Campaign Check, It's a..."Super Congress!"
Here's a round-up of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's work for the week of Aug 1-Aug 5, 2011.
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Aug05
Clips Round-up for 8/5/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Edwards donor pleads guilty to illegal donations -
Aug04
"12 really large checks"
"12 really large checks"
That’s how a lobbyist was quoted in a news story describing how he was preparing for the 12-member congressional deficit committee that will be charged with finding further ways to reduce the deficit.
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Aug01
Clips Round-up for 8/1/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Editorial: Why is Congress tied up in knots?
This Sacramento Bee editorial provides a few solutions to our broken Congress. One includes providing more campaign finance transparency--particularly by requiring Senators to file reports electronically
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Jul25
Clips round-up for 7/25/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Plan to cut budget of ethics office fails House vote
Rep. Mel Watt's (D-N.C.) efforts to slash the ethics office budget failed after people weren't allowed to vote anonymously.
Lobbyists campaign contributions are the real issue- 2012
- Big Oil
- Bob Edgar
- bundlers
- Citizens United
- Clips
- Common Cause
- consumer financial protection agency
- David Donnelly
- FEC
- Fred Upton
- fundraising
- Jack Abramoff
- Koch Brothers
- Maine Citizens for Clean Elections
- McComish v. Bennett
- Michele Bachmann
- Nick Nyhart
- Office of Congressional Ethics
- PACs
- President Obama
- public campaign
- Rupert Murdoch
- Wall Street
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Jul22
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and How Wall Street Celebrates an Anniversary Every Day of the Year
Here's a round-up of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's work for the week of July 18-July 22, 2011.
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Jul19
Clips round-up for 7/19/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Lawmaker requests end to ethics panel investigation
Citing misconduct, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is calling for a termination of the ethic committee investigation of her. -
Jul15
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and the British-coloured Scandal That Crossed the Pond
Here's a round-up of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's work for the week of July 11-July 15, 2011.
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Jul08
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and the Special Interest Lap Dog and Pony Show
Here's a round-up of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's work for the week of July 5-July 8, 2011.