Below is a piece by Peter H. Stone from today’s iWatch News at the Center for Public Integrity entitled, "Romney fundraiser jumps from campaign to Super PAC." According to Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer: Presidential candidate Super PACs are simply a vehicle for massive circumvention of the limits on contributions to presidential candidates. Central to […]
Allies of President Obama and a slew of Republican hopefuls are taking advantage of loose campaign-finance laws, a toothless Federal Election Commission and a 2010 Supreme Court decision that equated big money with free speech. The result? A system that Ohio political boss Mark Hanna would have loved in the wild,anything-goes campaign days of the 1890s. Among the system’s newest […]
Below is a memo sent today to reform groups from Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer, asking them to endorse a national effort led by Howard Schultz to boycott federal campaign donations until the nations’ fiscal and economic problems are addressed. Also below is a letter sent today by Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, to all […]
Enclosed is a column by Joe Nocera from today’s New York Times entitled, "Boycott Campaign Donations!" The column describes a proposal by Howard Schultz, Chairman and CEO of Starbucks, to boycott campaign donations to federal officeholders until they seriously address the nation’s fiscal and economic problems. "Democracy 21 wholeheartedly supports the Schultz proposal to boycott campaign […]
Today, Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center called on the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department to investigate whether two $1 million contributions made by two different Utah corporations to Restore Our Future, a Pro-Romney Super PAC, violated the campaign finance laws. The groups filed their wrote to the Justice Department requesting an […]
By Susan Crabtree Two campaign-finance watchdogs want the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice to crack down on the so-called phantom companies that are sprouting up apparently for the sole purpose of allowing anonymous million-dollar donations to the pro-Mitt Romney Restore Our Future Super PAC. The Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 have filed […]
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center are pleased that the secret $1 million donor who funded the corporate contribution by W Spann LLC to the pro-Romney Super PAC, Restore Our Future, has identified himself following the request by the two organizations for investigations by the Justice […]
Today, Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center called on the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department to investigate whether a $1 million contribution made by Spann LLC to Restore Our Future, a Super PAC, violated the campaign finance laws. The groups filed a requesting an investigation. Restore Our Future was formed by supporters […]
Below is an article by Michael Isikoff for NBC Newsentitled, "Firm gives $1 million to pro-Romney group, then dissolves." According to Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer: This story involves a $1 million donation apparently made in a manner designed to blatantly circumvent the campaign finance disclosure laws. The apparent effort to keep secret the actual donor or donors […]
By Kathleen Ronayne on August 3, 2011 3:00 PM Attorney Trevor Potter has been a part of the campaign finance world for two decades. During the early 1990s, he served as a commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, and was chair of the FEC in 1994. During the 2000 and 2008 presidential elections, Potter served as general […]
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