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Today, Democracy 21 joined with other reform groups to urge members of the House Committee on the Judiciary to pass the bipartisan “Clean Up Government Act of 2011” (H.R. 2572). This critical legislation would, among other things, restore important tools for federal prosecutors fighting public corruption by strengthening the Honest Services and illegal gratuities […]
Ryan J. Reilly The Federal Election Commission is set to tell Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), a member of the Tea Party Caucus, that he can’t become the first politician in the country to form his very own “super PAC” during their public meeting next week. A draft ruling posted by the FEC on Wednesday in […]
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To read the letter click here: National_Organizations_Oppose_BBA_-_11-16-11_-_FINAL.pdf
According to Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer: Candidate-specific Super PACs are a dangerous fraud on the American people. These vehicles are designed to launder into a candidate’s campaign the very kind of unlimited contributions that the campaign finance laws have long prohibited candidates from receiving because they are corrupting. Candidate-specific Super PACs provide a false […]
On October 28, 2011, American Crossroads, a federally registered political committee backed by Republican political operative Karl Rove, submitted an Advisory Opinion Request (AOR) to the FEC. The AOR brazenly requested the Commission to find that ads by American Crossroads to promote candidates that would be “fully coordinated” with the candidates and would even have […]
In a landmark decision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld North Carolina’s ban on campaign contributions from lobbyists to candidates for the North Carolina General Assembly or the Council of State. The contribution ban, upheld in Preston v. Leake, appears to be the toughest restriction on campaign giving by lobbyists in the country. […]
American Crossroads is the brainchild of political operative Karl Rove. On October 28, 2011, the Rove inspired organization asked the FEC to declare that expenditures by American Crossroads for TV ads to promote certain candidates that would be “fully coordinated” with those candidates and that would even have those candidates appearing in the ads are […]
By Eliza Newlin Carney The website of Americans Elect, a nonpartisan group that is set out to mount an alternative presidential candidate in 2012, exhorts visitors: “You have the power to help break gridlock and change politics as usual.” But campaign finance watchdogs complain that, far from changing the status quo, Americans Elect may be […]
According to the BNA Money and Politics Report, “the Democratic and Republican parties have received $35.4 million—about $17.7 million each—in public funding to pay for next year’s presidential nominating conventions, the Federal Election Commission announced Nov. 8.” It is more than ironic that at the same time Republican leaders in Congress are trying to kill […]
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