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Sep28
Clips Round-up for 9/28/12
The New York Times broke the story yesterday that George Soros wrote a $1 million check to Priorities USA Action and two $500,000 checks to Congressional super PACs.
Sep27New App: Politicash 2012!
MapLight has just launched Politicash 2012, a brand new, free app to track money in the presidential race.
The app's feautres incude:
Sep27Clips Round-up for 9/27/12
Last night, Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown had fundraisers scheduled. Warren's was a low-dollar trivia night in Somerville, Brown's was a $1,000 a ticket event at Chef Michel Richard's Central in DC. PCAF used the opportunity to take a look at the lobbyist cash in the race.
Sep25Clips Round-up for 9/25/12
Sep24Clips Round-up for 9/24/12
The New York Times looked at how Mitt Romney talks to donors and voters. There's overlap, sure, but "a review of his remarks at dozens of fund-raisers, in well-off neighborhoods from Los Angeles to Miami over the past year, highlights differences both subtle and significant in how he speaks to voters and donors, the two most important constituencies in his bid for the White House."
Sep21Rep. Price Introduces Congressional Public Financing Legislation
Last night, Rep. David Price (D-N.C.) and six other Members of Congress, including Fair Elections sponsors Reps.
Sep21Clips Round-up for 9/21/12
Here’s a round-up of the discussion yesterday with Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.), Public Campaign’s Nick Nyhart, and other reformers. The press release also has a summary of the mechanisms in Sarbanes’s Grassroots Democracy Act.
Campaign Finance/Fair ElectionsSep20Public Campaign Statement on FEC Approval for Low Fees for Text Message Donations
Public Campaign released the following statement today after the Federal Election Commission approved an advisory opinion in response to AT&T's request to charge low fees for text message campaign contributions:
Sep19Declaration for Accountable Democracy
Public Campaign Action Fund, Public Citizen, Common Cause, and People For The American Way--organizations representing hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens—announced a new campaign today urging federal candidates to declare their support for legislation to restore transparency and accountability in political spending, limit corrosive influence of big money on campaigns, make elections fair, and enhance the opportunity to participate.
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