At its meeting today, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a rule requiring the top four broadcasters in the biggest fifty... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Roundup: Citizen journalist removed from public meeting
In Georgia, Cumming Mayor Ford Gravitt removed citizen journalist Nydia Tisdale from a recent public meeting. Georgia Attorney General Sam... View Article
Continue readingFCC requires online posting of political ad files
Handing open-government advocates a partial victory in a better than decade-long battle, the Federal Communications Commission voted Friday to require major network affiliates in the top 50 TV markets to post information about their political ads online.
The move could provide the public with crucial information on who's behind the ads purchased by nonprofit groups that, under new campaign finance laws, can spend unlimited amounts of money advocating for or against candidates without registering with the Federal Election Commission. But the rule will leave out many TV markets in presidential battleground states as our map shows.
Broadcasters had fiercely ...
Continue readingFCC ruling could exempt 160 markets from posting political ad data
Red shows TV markets left out if the FCC orders stations in the top 50 to post political ad buys. For a closer view, zoom in; for more information, click on an area.
The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Friday on a rule that would require broadcast stations to post online their public files, including records of political advertisements. That could provide a crucial source of information about the shadowy groups that can now spend unlimited sums to advocate for or against political candidates without having to register with the Federal Election Commission.
But the proposed rule would ...
Continue readingWhat do you think about this “parliamentary transparency pledge”?
This Monday will bring the start of the “PMO Leaders Conference on Parliamentary Transparency and Networking” here in Washington, DC. Among the... View Article
Continue readingPresidential campaign donors moving to super PACs
A few weeks after some individual donors hit their campaign contribution limits to President Obama’s reelection campaign, they made donations to the super PAC supporting him, extending their financial support to the shadow campaign that's backing his bid for another four years in the White House.
This new trend has just begun to emerge in the most recent super PAC financial disclosures filed over the weekend with the Federal Election Commission. It's another impact of the sweeping changes in campaign finance law set off by the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United, which opened the door ...
Coincidence? Sunlight map shows how Obama fundraising crosses paths with his super PAC
Obama and Priorities USA fundraising paths often cross.
Although super PACs are not allowed to coordinate with candidates when it comes to campaign spending, the Federal Election Commission has determined that it's permissible for candidates to raise money for the super PACs supporting them.
With that in mind, Sunlight analyzed President Obama's campaign fundraisers and cross-referenced them with the locations of donors to the Priorities USA Action super PAC, which supports Obama.
We drew on data from our Follow the Unlimited Money tracker as well as Political Party Time, our database of political fundraisers. We also got an ...
Continue reading2day in #OpenGov 4/26/2012
NEWS ROUNDUP We apologize for the inconvenience, but there will be no roundup today. We are all busy preparing for... View Article
Continue readingTransparencyCamp 2012 is this Weekend!
TransparencyCamp is THIS Saturday and Sunday — April 28th and 29th — and it is sold out. We are going... View Article
Continue readingSupreme Court Considers an ALEC Bill
The controversial Arizona immigration law that President Obama’s administration challenged came before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday was written by... View Article
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