Clips round up for 10/31/2012

Submitted by John Papagiannis on Oct 31, 2012

Jack Gillum at AP pulls together the top donors to the Obama and Romney campaigns (and super PACs). Obama: Fred Eychaner, James Simons, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Irwin Jacobs, Jon Stryker. Romney: Shel Adelson, Harold Simmons, Bob Perry, Robert Rowling, Bill Koch.

• Big Oil
• Crossroads GPS
• lobbyists
• Mitt Romney
• outside groups
• President Obama
• super PACs

Clips round up for 9/5/2012

Submitted by John Papagiannis on Sep 05, 2012

Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
The Nation: Change we can believe in, 2.0
Katrina vanden Heuvel on the president's talk of an amendment last week and its inclusion in the Democratic platform. National Journal.

• Citizens United
• constitutional amendment
• DNC
• FEC
• Mitt Romney
• President Obama
• super PACs
• text message campaign contributions
• Wall Street
• West Virginia

Clips round up for 8/21/2012

Submitted by John Papagiannis on Aug 21, 2012

First off, that "FBI is investigating congressman for skinny dipping in the Sea of Galilee" story? Yeah, it wasn't about skinny-dipping--it's about the ongoing investigation into Congressman Michael Grimm.

And yesterday was FEC day for presidential campaigns and many PACs. Here's a rundown of the top stories:

• Citizens United
• Clips
• FEC
• fundraising
• Karl Rove
• Koch Brothers
• Mitt Romney
• Rep. Michael Grimm
• super PACs
• Todd Akin
• voter suppression

Watchdog: 2012 Election Spending Should Be Alarming to Americans of Every Stripe

Submitted by John Papagiannis on May 30, 2012

Campaign finance watchdog Public Campaign released a statement in response to today’s Politico story on conservative groups planning to spend over $1 billion to buy the presidency and Congress.

• 2012
• Karl Rove
• Koch Brothers
• super PACs
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce