Fair Elections/Campaign Finance MoveOn.org urges Levin to fight corporate influence Folks from MoveOn protested outside Rep. Sander Levin’s (D-MIch.) district office to sign the Fight Corporate Corruption pledge.  MoveOn to urge Rep. Kirk to sign anti-corruption pledge MoveOn rallied outside of Rep. Mark Kirk’s (R-Ill.) office yesterday to urge him to sign the pledge. Dept. of Really Big Other Shoe(S) Dropping And Jim Bopp strikes again, filing to overturn the new CU response legislation in Iowa.

• Here’s a clip from Iowa: http://www.radioiowa.com/2010/09/08/iowa-right-to-life-suit-seeks-to-put-campaign-law-on-hold/

Congress Right pours cash into Senate races Senate Democrats may have big war chests, but outside GOP groups will try to make up the difference.

• “These outside groups can spend unlimited sums, and they have new flexibility to raise and spend money after Citizens United. … And it’s simply untenable to think they can do so with anonymous donations.”

Wall Street donations drop for Dems Politico picks up the Center for Responsive Politics' report on Wall Street money switching from Democrats to Republicans

• And this: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/117769-wall-street-fills-coffers-of-top-gop-senate-candidates-

Companies spend directly on politics 40 companies have responded to the Center for Political Accountability survey saying they won’t spend money on independent ads. Corporations may not be spending money directly, but their trade associations are a good place to funnel to.