Outside groups aligned with Republicans are dominating spending on independent expenditures in the run-up to the 2010 midterm elections. As... View Article
Continue readingIntroducing Operation Transbearency: Follow the Honey
If you follow Sunlight in any capacity, you may have noticed a seemingly innocuous typo slip into our writing of... View Article
Continue readingDaily Disclosures
A roundup of what we’re noticing in the Reporting Group as we dig into government data and disclosures: Dark money:... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Blogger Round-up: Open Access week begins
In this week’s round-up, we highlight some of the activities of the Open Access Week while we look at the... View Article
Continue readingDark money: Super PACs fueled by $97.5 million that can’t be traced to donors
Of the $189 million spent so far by Super PACs, non-profits and labor unions to influence the 2010 mid-term elections, $97.5 million has come from groups that do not disclose any donors, an analysis of Federal Election Commission contribution records shows. That is, about 52 percent of the money spent so far on everything from political ads to phone banks to fliers promoting or opposing federal candidates has come from groups that don't disclose the sources of their funds.*
Of the 218 non-party committees that have spent money on independent expenditures or electioneering communications, only 100 have disclosed ...
Continue readingDead end disclosure: Super PAC’s biggest giver is a shadowy nonprofit with links to Sarah Palin
Citizens for a Working America PAC, a political organization that's spent $250,000 to oppose the reelection of Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., discloses its contributions to the Federal Election Commission. Its contributor (it has only one) is New Models, a Virginia-based non-profit organized under section 501(c)4 of the Internal Revenue Code, that doesn't disclose its donors.
Call it another wrinkle in the wide open world of 2010 money in politics: Disclosed donors can be anonymous too.
Citizens for a Working America PAC filed a statement of organization with the FEC on Sept. 2, 2010; about ...
Continue readingNo, Follow the Money
Another week, another poor attempt by a New York Times columnist to be contrarian. Last week it was Frank Rich... View Article
Continue readingCitizens United: Before, After, What’s Next?
The Citizens United case was a game changer in terms of money being spent by outside groups on the 2010... View Article
Continue readingDaily Disclosures
A roundup of what we’re noticing in the Reporting Group as we dig into government data and disclosures: Lopsided: Right-leaning... View Article
Continue readingKnight Foundation Awards Sunlight New Grant for “National Data Apps” & Sunlight Live
I’m thrilled to announce that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation just announced a new $1.2 million two-year... View Article
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