NEWS ROUNDUP Campaign Finance Berkeley won’t like Adelson when he’s angry: Billionaire Sheldon Adelson spent $20 million to support the... View Article
Continue readingGuess Who’s Coming to TCamp12: The Marko Rakar and Maria Baron Edition
“Guess Who’s Coming to TCamp12” is a mini-series we started to introduce some of the faces that you’ll see at... View Article
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NEWS ROUNDUP Campaign Finance Super PAC backlash? Endangered Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is fighting immense super PAC spending against her by... View Article
Continue readingOrgs Call on House to Pass the DATA Act
24 organizations today called upon the House of Representatives to pass the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act. The DATA Act... View Article
Continue readingPennsylvania Rep. Tim Holden is a magnet for outside spending
Tuesday's battle for the Democratic nomination in Pennsylvania's newly-redrawn 17th Congressional District has emerged as the biggest money magnet so far for outside groups spending on House primaries, data compiled by the Sunlight Foundation's Follow the Unlimited Money tracker shows.
Outside groups have spent more than $572,000 in the semi-rural central Pennsylvania district, most of it to defeat Rep. Tim Holden. The only other House races that have drawn more outside spending so far have been special elections in which Democrats and Republicans were competing.
By contrast, the Pennsylvania race is a Democrat-on-Democrat affair: Holden, a ...
Continue readingNews Without Transparency: GSA Chief Resigns Amid Reports of Excessive Spending
News Without Transparency – GSA Chief Resigns Amid Reports of Excessive Spending This post was written in conjunction with Policy... View Article
Continue readingSuper PACs first quarter haul: More than $100 million in political contributions
Super PACs raised more in the first three months of 2012 than they did in all of 2011, and after just two years of existence have emerged as a financial force that rivals the political parties and candidates' campaign committees.
An unusual conjunction of Federal Election Committee filing deadlines -- reports from campaign committees that file quarterly were due at midnight Sunday while those that file monthly were due Friday -- has given us the first comprehensive look at the impact of super PACs in the first presidential campaign year where they've been a factor.
An analysis of data gathered by ...
Continue readingTea Party standout joins leadership of disruptive super PAC
Tea Party activist Mark Meckler has joined the leadership of the Campaign for Primary Accountability (CPA), a disruptive super PAC aimed at ousting long-term incumbents from Congress. He has become part of a four-person, conservative leadership team of a group that says its aims are nonpartisan.
Meckler officially joined the $2.5 million super PAC, one of the outside groups spending the most in congressional primaries, as a senior advisor earlier this week but said he has been friends with its founders for quite some time and got to know them through the Tea Party movement. He resigned from the ...
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Setting up AdWords, Analytics & Webmaster Toolkit
Google’s nonprofit program offers a variety of services your organization can leverage to the benefit of your community. If you... View Article
Continue readingGuess Who’s Coming to TCamp12: The Michael Mulley Edition
“Guess Who’s Coming to TCamp12” is a mini-series we started to introduce some of the faces that you’ll see at... View Article
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