This week's roundup of notable deleted tweets from politicians archived on Politwoops includes a shopping trip, another deluge of deletions from long ago and more.
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: Sen. Cruz’s tiger rug, a Spanish lesson and more
Welcome to another roundup looking at the last week's deletions from U.S. politicians archived by our Politwoops project.
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: an Obamacare math and messaging muck up, a plea for a new font and more
Another roundup of notable deletions from Sunlight's Politwoops project to archive the deleted tweets of U.S. politicians.
Continue readingMoney, politics and the Missouri special election
Voters are going to the polls today in southeastern Missouri to select a replacement for their former congresswoman, Jo Ann Emerson, and as is always the case, they've been preceded by monied interests trying to influence the outcome. So let's review the bidding:
Although Sunlight's Follow the Unlimited Money tracker shows that there are many other races (including some that won't take place until next year), there's still a bit of intrigue. On Monday, our colleagues over at the Center for Public Integrity revealed that Conservative Strikeforce Super PAC, the group spending in the race on behalf of the GOP standard-bearer (and odds-on favorite in the ruby Republican red corner of the Show-Me State) Jason Smith, timed the expenditure so that the donors won't have to be revealed until after Election Day. We've seen this trick before.
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