The new 114th Congress begins with some notable deletions archived by Politwoops including a freshman breaking the rules, a mayor backtracking a campaign announcement and a congressman celebrating a bill's passage when it didn't pass.
Continue readingRarer than a day in June? FEC goes after congressional campaign for failure to disclose
It isn't every day that the federal campaign watchdogs actually bite.
Continue readingOffice of Congressional Ethics: Subpoena Steve Stockman
Citing Sunlight reporting, the Office of Congressional Ethics recommends that Rep. Steve Stockman be subpoenaed to testify about potentially illegal campaign contributions.
Continue readingStockman faces ethics inquiry over campaign finances
Rep. Steve Stockman is facing an ethics inquiry after a series of Sunlight reports on the Texas Republican's questionable campaign finance practices.
Continue readingMoney talks: Introducing Real-Time’s new competitive primaries page
As the primary season gets underway, Sunlight's Real-Time FEC tracker rolls out a new tool to target the contests that are the most competitive. One headline: Democratic Senate challengers are MIA.
Continue readingFired Stockman staffer resurfaces as “newspaper” publisher
A former staffer for Rep. Steve Stockman has been printing a publication designed to look like a newspaper, albeit one with a curiously singular focus - to criticize Stockman's Senate primary opponent, Sen. John Cornyn.
Continue readingPresto! Stockman campaign finds some missing money
Amending a campaign finance return for a seventh time, Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, reports some donations his spokesman had denied getting.
Continue readingPACs say Stockman campaign cashed checks it never reported to FEC
Two of the PACs behind missing contributions to Steve Stockman's congressional campaign have confirmed that their checks were cashed, contradicting a previous statement from the congressman's spokesperson.
Continue readingStockman campaign flouts the Federal Election Commission
A Sunlight Foundation analysis of 2012 and 2013 campaign filings from Rep. Steve Stockman's campaign committee suggests that the Texas lawmaker hasn't been reporting all of his contributions in a timely fashion to the Federal Election Commission.
Continue readingPolitwoops 2013: the year’s top politicians and their best deletions from Twitter
As the year winds down and Washington retreats to spend the holidays with family and friends, let's look back at the many gifts politicians left for Politwoops in 2013 as they deleted messages once shared eagerly with their followers.
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