Are you somewhere in New York State? Then you should make sure to check out one of the stops on the Caravan of Corruption traveling through next week. "From Buffalo to Brooklyn, and everywhere in between, we’re taking our creepshow on the road to show what happens when we don’t hold greedy politicians accountable for their actions." You might even run into some Public Campaign staff!

The New York Times reported that Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to start a super PAC that will drop $10 to $15 million into the last few weeks of the election to boost a select few candidates and "reshape a national political debate he finds frustratingly superficial."

Dave Levinthal at Politico reported last night that outside groups have already spent $212.8 million this month, "enough to buy every resident of Flint, Mich., or Green Bay, Wis., a high-end LED flat screen television."

And filed with the FEC yesterday, "The Democratic National Convention relied on at least $5 million in corporate donations, despite repeated pledges by top party officials only to use money raised from individuals." Oops! HuffPost on GOP convention money.

Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
ProPublica: Money is speech: a musical history of campaign finance
Ok, this is pretty good. And I've seen more than my fair share of campaign finance music videos over the years.

Congress/2012
Mother Jones: "47 Percent" host and get-rich-quick schemers holding Romney fundraisers
Back to Boca for the Romney campaign: "Marc Leder, who held the 47 percent fundraiser, and Mike and Irene Milin, who have been targeted by state attorneys general for peddling "free" government money, will host campaign events." HuffPost.

Politico: Obama still taking it in, Ms. Obama that is
"President Obama may have headlined his last fundraiser of 2012, but his wife is still raking it in. First lady Michelle Obama joined a panoply of stars at an exclusive Park Avenue fundraiser Wednesday in New York."

AP: GOP Sen. Brown outpacing Warren in PAC donations
"Each candidate's most recent campaign finance filing with the Federal Election Commission shows Brown collected more than $451,000 from PACs in the six week period between mid-August and the end of September. That compares with nearly $83,000 for Warren during the same period."

Politico: DNC host committee owes $8 million
"The host committee for the Democratic National Convention owes nearly $8 million after it fell short of its fundraising goal for the September event."

PCAF: David Koch maxes out to Scott Brown
It's not as splashy as the $500,000 from his brother Bill, but "David Koch and his wife Julia maxed out to Brown’s campaign committee in August, each giving $5,000..."

In These Times: In conference call, Romney urged businesses to tell their employees how to vote
Talking to the NFIB, the Crossroads-backed group behind ACA repeal lawsuit, "Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney instructed employers to tell their employees how to vote in the upcoming election."

HuffPost: Majority PAC, Democratic super PAC, spends $8.4 million in nine races
"Majority PAC, the Democratic super PAC backing U.S. Senate candidates, is dropping $8.4 million into nine races across the country."

LAT: "This is the last minute," Obama says in final fundraising plea
"With just hours before the final pre-election fundraising reporting deadline, President Obama made an urgent plea to supporters for donations that could make the difference in an election that he said 'is really going to come down to the wire.'"

CPI: Christian college asks for refund of donation to super PAC
A Christian college that gave $5,000 to Jan Brewer's PAC has asked for a refund.

CRP: Backed by Adelson, Republican pro-Israel group targets Obama
"With hefty backing from billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson – the 800-lb gorilla of this year's GOP megadonors -- the conservative Republican Jewish Coalition is spending millions of dollars in four crucial states to cut into the Jewish vote that President Barack Obama won lopsidedly in 2008. "

Roll Call: Interest groups inundate northeast Ohio race
In the Sutton-Renacci race, "outside spending has hit $5.4 million, by the center’s tally, double the $2.7 million the candidates have doled out from their campaign accounts." Ohio members are being "drowned out."

NaJo: Dem Senate campaighs raise big, spend big
"Senate candidates, especially Democrats, raised boatloads of cash in the third quarter. And in many cases, they are spending huge amounts, too." The Hill.

Dallas Morning News: Dick Cheney to host Dallas fundraiser for Mitt Romney
"Former Vice President Dick Cheney will headline a Dallas fundraising event for Mitt Romney on Oct. 25, along with Josh Romney, one of the GOP nominee’s sons."

Sunlight: NAM authorized $1 million in political spending
"The National Association of Manufacturers authorized close to $1 million on ads in Ohio over a two-week period, according to files uncovered with Sunlight's Political Ad Sleuth."

Sun-Times: Duckworth: No super PAC will "bury" me
Tammy Duckworth is standing strong against the mountain of outside money coming in to help Joe Walsh: "I wasn’t buried in Iraq, and I won’t be buried by Joe Walsh’s Out-Of-State Right Wing Super PAC."

CBS: Jesse Jackson Jr. campaogn finance report lacks detail on credit charges, furniture purchase
"And CBS 2 has learned the congressman’s campaign finance reports do not provide details for hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit card charges, or for an $8,000 purchase from a suburban furniture store. That, amid reports the federal probe is focused on alleged misuse of campaign cash to redecorate his home."

NaJo: Outside money pouring into Va. Senate race
"Last week, the Campaign Finance Institute said more outside funds had been spent in the Virginia Senate race than any other contest in the country ($4.3 million). "

WMUR: 3 of 4 major N.H. Congressional candidates set fund-raising records
"Of the four leading Republican and Democratic candidates running for Congress in the Granite State, three just posted personal best fund-raising records."

Other/States
Press-Herald: Donors to Maine races focus on big picture
"Maine is following a national trend that shows political parties and outside interest groups are spending more money than in past elections to influence the makeup of state legislatures. "

CPI: Pennsylvania governor benefited from $1.5 million untraceable donation
On a shady donation funneled through the RGA to Gov. Corbett. "By the time the donation reached Corbett, it was impossible to identify the original source of the cash or whether the donation was permissible under state law." More on governors' associations giving.

McClatchy: Nonprofit exploits campaign finance loophole to fund ads opposing Brown's tax initiative, watchdogs say
A really shady Arizona group that lists no address on its website, "gave $11 million this week to defeat Gov. Jerry Brown's tax initiative and curb unions' political power without saying where a single dime originated."