Elite Donors Do Double Duty: Presidential Super PACs Attract Wealthy Donors Who Have Maxed Out to Candidates

  During the second quarter of 2011, more than 50 individuals donated the legal maximum to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and also dug into […]

Center for Public Integrity: Allies of Rick Perry form group that accepts unlimited, undisclosed donations

Below is an article by Peter H. Stone for the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News. According to Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer: This article […]

Democracy 21 Letter to IRS

POLITICO Op-ed: Democracy loses with Super PACs

By Fred Wertheimer The first person I remember who compared large campaign contributions to bribes was the late Sen. Russell Long of Louisiana. Chairman of […]

Democracy 21 and Campaign Legal Center Challenge Tax Exempt Status of Groups by Internal Revenue Service

Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center sent a letter today to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) challenging the eligibility of four organizations engaged in […]

Huffington Post: Super PACs And Secret Money: The Unregulated Shadow Campaign

By Paul Blumenthal WASHINGTON — In the span of a week in September, two independent political committees announced unheard-of fundraising plans for the coming campaign […]

Reform Groups Urge Chairman Durbin to Oppose any Effort to Repeal or Kill the Presidential Public Financing System

Americans for Campaign Reform – Brennan Center for Justice – Campaign Legal Center Common Cause – CREW – Democracy 21League of Women Voters – People For […]

Campaigns and Elections: Enter the Era of Super PACs

How Super PACs are overpowering candidate campaigns and changing the consulting biz….   by Josh Boak    Faster than a speeding teleprompter, more powerful than […]

Center for Public Integrity: Karl Rove-linked Crossroads has more than doubled its earlier fundraising goal of $120 million

By Peter H. Stone American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS have set a new fundraising goal at least twice the $120 million announced earlier this year. […]

Letter from Reform Groups to Chairman Sensenbrenner and Democratic Ranking Member Scott in Support of Clean Up Government Act of 2011

September 7, 2011   Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., ChairmanHonorable Robert C. Scott, Ranking MemberHouse Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland SecurityWashington, DC 20510 […]