Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, gave a combined $5 million to the "YG Action Fund", a super PAC with ties to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., according to Federal Election Commission filings made Sunday night.
The contributions, dated April 30th but first revealed in the group's second quarter filings, dwarf the super PAC's fundraising to date; all other donations together come to just $394,150.
This is the second big donation to come from Miriam and Sheldon Adelson in the second quarter; filings made last week showed Sheldon Adelson gave $1 million to ...
Continue readingThe protons are coming! The protons are coming!
In the Sunlight Foundation computer systems, the people are protected by one unconventional, yet endlessly impressive Timball, our sysadmin. The man investigates the problem and keeps us safe from the offenders. This is his story.
Dear fellow earthlings. We are under attack and the thing that is attacking us is our Sun.
I was alerted via friends on IRC, early this morning they shared with me a Facebook image link:
which showed a scary red spot pretty much completely covering North America (my favorite america), but i wanted to know what the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was doing to monitor the situation. So i jumped on the google and quickly found a pile of realtime data directly from NOAA!
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NEWS ROUNDUP Campaign Finance: Opinion: Pension fund payments can be used by corporations to fund elections: Because nearly all public... View Article
Continue readingWhat You Should Know About the DISCLOSE Act Part 3: Does the DISCLOSE Act Favor Unions?
Opponents of the DISCLOSE Act are so desperate to keep the light from shining on massive amounts of secret, dark... View Article
Continue readingWhat You Should Know about the DISCLOSE Act Part 2: How does the DISCLOSE Act Shine a light on Super PACs and Dark Money?
As we wrote yesterday, the Senate will vote on the DISCLOSE Act on Monday. In a series of blog posts... View Article
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 7/12/2012
NEWS ROUNDUP State/Local Cuomo to tour New York to tout new campaign finance plan: To support of his plan to... View Article
Continue readingWhat Redistricting Means For Sunlight’s APIs
With the election 4 months away we're starting to get questions about when our various APIs and projects that depend upon them will return the newly redistricted legislative boundaries.
The short answer is that we will most likely not be able to support new district boundaries until after the November 2012 election (but before they technically go into effect for the purposes of representation in 2013).
If you're interested in the reasoning behind this decision, read on, but be warned, redistricting is a lot more complex than "the state has released new boundaries, let's load them."
Continue readingStay in the loop! Legislative Hill briefing on Scout TODAY
Are you a Hill staffer working on health care? The Farm Bill? DISCLOSE? Or do you track legislation for your... View Article
Continue readingWhat You Should Know about the DISCLOSE Act Part 1: What is the DISCLOSE Act?
The Senate is expected to vote soon on the DISCLOSE Act, a bill that will shine a light on the... View Article
Continue readingQuestions from Paris on PMOs
This past weekend I attended a legislative data transparency conference in Paris, where parliamentary monitoring organizations from around the world... View Article
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