Who Had The Most Effective Election Spending? (Hint: Not Karl Rove)
After all the talk about the impact of independent groups on this year's midterm elections, the debate over at least one important question can now be...
After all the talk about the impact of independent groups on this year's midterm elections, the debate over at least one important question can now be...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
The economic meltdown that short-sighted "free market" policies brought upon us has now given the rich and powerful the opening to push their advantage more aggressively than ever.
WASHINGTON POST | T.W. Farnam | Posted 05.25.2011
The Supreme Court's decision this year in Citizens United, which lifted campaign spending restrictions for companies and interest groups, has indirect...
Anne Kibbler | Posted 05.25.2011
A tax-exempt organization accused of filtering anonymous corporate donations into political advertising has spent more than $350,000 to oppose Indiana...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Memories of viral videos don't die easily, just ask Rep. Bob Etheridge, the target of a new third-party ad that revives a summer sidewalk scuffle betw...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The shadowy pro-business group, Americans for Job Security, got tough front-page treatment in the New York Times on Friday for funding a host of conse...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Alaskans grew suspicious two years ago when a national organization called Americans for Job Security showed up and spent $1.6 million pushing a refer...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
This past week, Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) condemned an outside group for running racially-tinged attack ads against her primary opponent, Lt. G...
Posted 05.25.2011
The Virginia-based conservative independent group Americans for Job Security is doubling down on its support for Ken Buck in Colorado's Republican Sen...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
As Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) pivots from her surprise primary victory on Tuesday night to her general election run against Rep. John Boozman (R-Ar...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The pro-business group Americans for Jobs Security made news once again on Thursday night for releasing a racially-tinged mailer attacking Arkansas Se...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The already racially-tinged attacks being launched against Lt. Gov Bill Halter in the Arkansas Democratic primary race took a turn for the worse on Th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Americans for Job Security, a conservative, pro-trade, free market organization, is apparently sending out mailers declaring that a vote for Democrats...
Kathy Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011
Americans for Job Security is running attack ads against Shaheen during an election year, yet claiming that it is not trying to influence an election, and refusing to release the names of its members or its donors.
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011