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Tag Archive: 2012 elections

Profile: Tim Scott

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Party: Republican
State and District: South Carolina, 1
Born: Sept. 19, 1965 Charleston, S.C.
Campaign cash raised: $2,545,657
Money from businesses that lobby: $688,625
Money from leadership PACs: $75,000
Money from in-state / out-of-state: $938,175 / $354,102
At-risk in November? No
Outside group spending: None reported
Net worth in 2010: $915,004 to $5,949,997
Net worth in 2011: $450,004 to $950,000

 

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Profile: Diane Lynn Black

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Party: Republican
State and District: Tennessee, 6
Born: Jan. 16, 1951 Baltimore, Md.
Campaign cash raised: $5,039,692
Money from businesses that lobby: $817,042
Money from leadership PACs: $97,400
Money from in-state / out-of-state: $2,041,813 / $109,450
At-risk in November? No
Outside group spending: $69,590.78 in support, $232,789 in opposition
Net worth in 2010: -$7,315,946 to $69,860,990
Net worth in 2011: Not yet reported

 

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Profile: Tim Huelskamp

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Party: Republican
State and District: Kansas, 1
Born:  Nov. 11, 1968  Fowler, Kan.  
Campaign cash raised: $1,873,301
Money from businesses that lobby: $348,455
Money from leadership PACs: $48,000
Money from in-state / out-of-state: $707,689 / $211,275
At-risk in November? No
Outside group spending: None reported
Net worth in 2010: $114,015 to $460,000
Net worth in 2011: $123,010 to $420,000

 

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Profile: Scott Rigell

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Party: Republican
State and District: Virginia, 2
Born: May 28, 1960  Titusville, Fla.  
Campaign cash raised: $6,466,058
Money from businesses that lobby: $390,699
Money from leadership PACs: $143,500
Money from in-state / out-of-state: $4,407,915 / $330,355 
At-risk in November? No
Outside group spending: None reported
Net worth in 2010: $7,819,054 to $36,119,998
Net worth in 2011: $5,745,074 to $51,592,996

 

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Influence profile: Paul Ryan

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Rep. Paul RyanRep. Paul Ryan, whom Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney reportedly will name as his running mate Saturday, is a prolific fundraiser whose most ardent backers are a curious mix of the conservative elite and the blue collar plebian.  

Since winning election to the House in 1998, the Wisconsin Republican has attracted more than $11 million in donations, Sunlight's Influence Explorer shows. Among Ryan's most generous backers: the beer wholesalers, Koch industries -- headed by conservative bankrollers David and Charles Koch -- and the Carpenter and Joiners union. Over the years, Ryan also has received steady support from the Laborers union ...

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Super PAC profile: American Bridge 21st Century

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The recent buzz that one of the frontrunners to be Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, had registered as a foreign agent for the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti came from American Bridge 21st Century, a super PAC that's spent most of its money not on attack ads, but on opposition research.

The registration was old news: A July 17 Washington Post profile of Portman, seen at right, noted it, along with a Patton Boggs attorney's statement that, though registered, Portman hadn't represented Haiti. But it shows that independent ...

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Stealthy Wealthy: To Robert Rowling, political giving makes business sense

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Robert RowlingTexas-based billionaire Robert Rowling has given a total of $6.8 million to American Crossroads, the super PAC that has run ads criticizing President Barack Obama for, among other things, bailing out and bankrolling private businesses with public money. Yet Rowling, seen at right, a member of the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans who inherited his fortune, hasn't been averse to seeking taxpayer assistance in his own business ventures. And he's been willing to use his private fortune to seek public dollars. 

Though he's a less well-known name than mega donors like George Soros or ...

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Missouri primary: McCaskill and Democrats helped Republican Todd Akin to Senate nomination

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Rep. W. Todd AkinSen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Democratic outside groups, pouring in over $1 million during Missouri's Republican Senate primary, got the guy they wanted: Rep. Todd Akin, who Tuesday upset two other Republicans to take the GOP nomination.

Recent polls have shown McCaskill trailing all three Republicans in head-to-head matchups, but Akin has the smallest edge. She is betting voters will see the six-term congressman -- who gave "thanks to God our creator" in his victory speech and has been endorsed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, an evangelical Christian -- as too conservative.

Late in the primary, McCaskill hit TV and ...

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First light on dark money: Bloomberg gun control group discloses donors

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NYC Mayor Bloomberg visits Sikh templeWhen Mayors Against Illegal Guns Action Fund, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vehicle for pushing for tighter gun control regulation, ran ads Sunday morning calling on President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, to offer plans to reduce gun violence, they became the first dark money group to publicly disclose its donors.

Bloomberg's group, a social welfare organization set up under section 501(c)4 of the tax code, is the first to comply with a U.S. District Court ruling requiring such organizations, which normally keep their donors secret, to disclose them ...

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Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson defends gun ownership

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Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican whose state is the site of the nation's most recent deadly shooting spree, this time at a Sikh temple, has benefitted from more than $1.3 million from gun rights groups, far more than any other member of Wisconsin's congressional delegation.Official photo of Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc.

Overall, gun rights groups and associated individuals, dominated by the National Rifle Association (NRA), have poured $1.6 million into campaigns involving members of the Wisconsin congressional delegation, according to a search on Influence Explorer. In contrast, gun control groups have spent $11,300 since 1989.

Tea party enthusiast Johnson won ...

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