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Axelrod Says Undisclosed GOP Contributors Trying to Sway Regulation of Industry
By Bruce Drake
Continuing the Democrats' assault on Republican fundraising, senior White House adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that the ability of political action groups supporting the GOP to raise millions for the campaign without full disclosure of contributors is giving special interests "a louder voice" on ...
Interest Group Spending on Campaigns Setting Records in 2010
By Sandra Fish
The money flowing into campaigns to buy TV ads and send brochures to your mailbox is staggering. And as David Corn notes elsewhere, we may never know where much of this money comes from or exactly how much is spent. That's because of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision earlier this year, ...
There's Already a Big Winner in 2010: GOP and Its Secret-Money Allies
By David CornThe midterm elections are still 2½ weeks away, but one set of 2010 winners can now be declared: monied interests that want to shape the government to their liking. If you've paid attention to the political back-and-forth of the past week, you know that the Obama White House and the Democratic ...
Jim DeMint's Support of Tea Party Candidates Could Boost His Senate Profile
By Kevin Brennan
When Marco Rubio embarked on his campaign for the Republican nomination in the U.S. Senate race in Florida, he had very little public support among Republican power brokers, who overwhelmingly backed Charlie Crist, Florida governor and odds-on favorite at the time. Enter Jim DeMint. The junior ...
Under Fire From Democrats, Chamber of Commerce Helps Blue Dogs
By Andrea StoneRepublicans and their allies in business are howling that a Democratic charge that "secret foreign money" is fueling GOP campaigns is a dog that just won't hunt. Now the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is helping conservative Blue Dog Democrats in a bid to prove it is bipartisan after all. The powerful ...
Palin's PAC Raises $1.2 Million; She Spends a Million on Candidates, Consultants
By Tom Diemer
Sarah Palin raised a hefty $1.2 million over the summer and also spent about a million, paying consultants for advice on finance, international affairs and media, and also contributing to favored candidates in the midterm elections. It was Palin's strongest three months of fundraising since her ...
Karl Rove: Spinning a 2010 'Enemies List'
By David CornKarl Rove has done it again. He's turned legitimate political debate into partisan propaganda. In an e-mail to Politico this weekend, the former George W. Bush uber-strategist who has long been accused of assorted dirty tricks, blasted President Obama for cooking up an "enemies list." And on "Fox ...
White House Calls Partisan Campaign Groups a 'Threat to Our Democracy'
By Alex WagnerFaced with an onslaught of campaign funding from partisan non-profit groups, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Thursday called the influx of election spending from unnamed donors "a threat to our democracy." Speaking specifically about the conservative group American Crossroads and its ...
IRS Is Asked to Probe Campaign Spending by Group Linked to Karl Rove
By Politics Daily Staff
Disappointed in Congress' failure to pull the veil off of interest group campaign spending, two watchdog outfits have asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate Crossroads GPS, a conservative organization that is pouring millions of thousands of dollars into Republican races. The complaint, ...
Wisconsin's Russ Feingold in Peril, But Still Practicing 'I Did It My Way' Politics
By Walter Shapiro
RACINE, Wis. – After 18 years in Washington, Russ Feingold remains the senator who has built his career and his voting record around (hat tip: Oscar Wilde) the importance of being earnest. High-minded, idiosyncratic and sometimes exasperating to his fellow Democrats, the 57-year-old Feingold ...
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