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Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Anti-transparency Senators and their campaign cash 
Every original co-sponsor of the Senate bill to block Obama's draft executive order on transparency counts a government contractor in their top donor list.

Why Democrats are losing the messaging war on federal contractor disclosure
Good analysis from Ryan Reilly at TPM on the draft executive order.

Campaign finance experts see few implications for Virginia ruling
Must read on last Friday's decision. "Campaign finance experts are saying privately that despite outrage over a judge's decision this week that corporations could donate money directly to federal candidates, the verdict would probably not have any real effects on the 2012 elections."
- More from the Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/va-judge-rules-against-us-ban-on-direct-corporate-contributions-to-candidates/2011/05/27/AGEPEpCH_story.html
- And the Times editorializes: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/opinion/29sun2.html

Congress/2012
Small-scale donations dwindling for Brown
Scott Brown's small donor fundraising has gone from 54% when he was elected to just 15% of his total.

When "coordinate" is a dirty word
Good piece on "coordination" bans - highlighting the household that runs both the DCCC independent expenditure effort and the House Majority PAC

Breaks for Big Oil won't affect gas price
This letter to the editor in Des Moines on ending oil subsidies reads: "Oil companies paid for those votes: $39.5 million was spent on lobbying Congress in the first quarter this year, paying $219,300 in campaign contributions to Sen. Chuck Grassley."

Election donors: who are they?
On 2012, secret donors, etc.

Republican legislators push to tighten voting rules
A good piece in the New York Times on the voter suppression efforts going on across the country ahead of the 2012 election.

Velasquez missed travel reports
"Former House Small Business Chairwoman Nydia Velasquez recently filed disclosure reports for thousands of dollars worth of international travel that she had failed to report for several years."

Palin's path may be unclear, but her ride is revving
Sarah Palin launched her fundraising trip...err..family vacation over the weekend.

Fantasy sports leagues lobby for real
The Fantasy Sports Trade Association has its first registered lobbyist.

Other
Business groups contribute to GOP leadership
North Carolina Republican leadership is being showered with big business money.

Killing public financing of elections is wrong
"The demise of the state's three decades of public financing of state office elections is another attack on Wisconsin's progressive history."
- More from Common Cause Wisconsin: http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/article_431b038d-678f-5231-8079-c7ba968d6ae8.html

A proven way to control election costs
An op-ed from North Carolina tying state lawmaker's efforts to restrict voting with efforts to kill off public financing in the state. ""Should the voice that NC citizens have in their government depend on how much money they have in their wallets?"

Campaign finance laws at heart of John Edwards case
An update on John Edwards. "The main questions in a criminal case would be whether payments to Edwards' mistress and a campaign staffer were intended to keep his 2008 campaign alive, and whether he knew about them - substantive legal issues aside from the Edwards soap opera, which includes the affair while seeking the presidency as his wife battled cancer, conceiving a child with the mistress, and publicly denying paternity as an aide, Andrew Young, claimed it."