Today’s badly broken campaign finance system benefits wealthy interests, and leaves hundreds of millions of ordinary Americans on the outside looking in at Washington’s rigged system.
The Washington PostBoth national party committees spend big chunks on fancy meals, hotels, travelBy R. Jeffrey SmithApril 21, 2010 Both the national Democratic and Republican party committees spend about two-thirds of the money they take in on the care and comfort of committee staffs and on efforts to raise more funds, with lavish spending on […]
An article that appeared in CQ Politics entitled "Democrats Claim At Least One Vote for Campaign Finance Bill." CQ PoliticsDemocrats Claim At Least One Vote for Campaign Finance BillBy Matthew MurrayApril 19, 2010 House Democrats have locked down at least one Republican vote for a new campaign finance bill that is expected to debut this […]
The Washington Post Citizens United challenges the strident side of Supreme Court rulingBy Dan EggenApril 1, 2010 Fresh off a landmark victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, the conservative advocacy group Citizens United is trying to get around one part of the ruling it didn’t like. The group’s attorney, former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson, […]
Houston Chronicle The first trickleIn Texas, a campaign ad precedes a coming flood of corporate cashEditorialMarch 27, 2010 The U.S. Supreme Court shook American politics to the core with a 5-4 ruling in January freeing up corporations and other groups to independently spend as much cash as their directors wish in support of chosen candidates. […]
The Washington PostRuling allows contributions to activist groups for campaignsBy Dan EggenMarch 27, 2010 A federal appeals court on Friday handed another victory to conservative opponents of campaign-finance restrictions, striking down limits on individual contributions to advocacy groups that want to use the money for or against candidates in federal elections. But in a unanimous […]
By Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court recently issued a radical decision that overturned two decades of Court precedents and a national policy that had its origins more than a century ago. The Court in a 5 to 4 decision declared unconstitutional a longstanding ban on […]
PoliticoElite donors dodge the DNCBy Jeanne CummingsMarch 16, 2010 Former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers took plenty of blame for the gate crashers at President Barack Obama’s first state dinner and for posing for fashion shoots in glossy magazines. But a previously undisclosed gripe about her provides another explanation for her abrupt departure last […]
National JournalBrave New World Of Political Spending For NonprofitsCharities And Other 501(c) Groups Could Find Themselves In An Uncomfortable SpotBy Eliza Newlin CarneyMarch 15, 2010 In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to deregulate corporate political spending, public attention has focused squarely on whether businesses and for-profit companies will now lavish big money […]
The HillChamber: Unions to gain from campaign finance decisionBy Kevin BogardusMarch 14, 2010 The senior attorney at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the Supreme Court’s loosening of campaign finance restrictions will have little effect on the group’s politicking. Steven Law, chief legal officer and general counsel for the Chamber, said the biggest beneficiary of […]
Associated Press Legislatures push back against campaign rulingBy Tom Breen March 13, 2010 The U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of decades-old campaign spending limits gives states scant time to face an election-year puzzle: Brace for a flood of new money in politics or find new ways to rein it in. Within days of the ruling, state […]
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