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Railroading John Edwards: Welcome to the Starship Enterprise

Lonna Saunders | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Rielle Hunter, The Bold and the Beautiful, Rachel Mellon, Scott E. Thomas, Madonna, Bill Clinton, Fred Baron, Bunny Mellon, Eliot Spitzer, Father Al Lauer, Presentation Ministries, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, Fec, Ex Post Facto, Star Trek, Beam Me Up Scotty, Starship Enterprise, Captain Kirk, Chicago News
Lonna Saunders

Wouldn't it be better if Edwards were providing free legal backup to those who need it than in prison at a cost of thirty thousand dollars per year to us taxpayers?

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Edwards Makes Big Payback

AP | MICHAEL BIESECKER | Posted 04.10.2012

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RALEIGH, N.C. — John Edwards' campaign has repaid more than $2.1 million in public matching funds received after the Democrat dropped out of the...

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Miami-To-Orlando Rail On Downtown Tracks By 2014

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Private Passenger Rail Service in Florida, Florida News, Amtrak, Fec Passenger Rail, Florida East Coast Industries, Greyhound Bus, Miami News, Fec, Florida Public Transportation, Poll, Video, Florida Travel, Florida-Rail, Train From Miami to Orlando, Transit Miami, Florida Train Travel, All Aboard Florida, Miami Transit, Miami News

Finally, a rail project Rick Scott can't kill: a Coral Gables company is planning a new privately owned, operated and maintained passenger train servi...

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Less Than 4 Percent Of Commuters Use Public Transit

Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Tri-Rail, South Florida Public Transit, Metrorail, Miami-Dade Transit, Miami News, Metrobus, Fec, Miami Commuting, Commuting, Miami Public Transit, Florida Public Transpertation, Clewiston, Miami News

Anyone who's ever been on South Florida roads between 8 and 9 a.m. and 5 and 6 p.m. will not be shocked that the region ranks 41st in the nation for p...

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Occupy Our Courts Comes To Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Video, Move to Amend, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Occupy Our Courts, Occupy Our Courts Detroit, Petition-to-Amend, AJ O'Neil, Fec, Occupy Detroit, Citizens United, Occupy the Courts, Detroit News

Protesters gathered outside the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in downtown Detroit Friday afternoon, joining the nationwide Occupy Our Courts protest ...

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Protesters To Demonstrate Outside Courthouses

AP | By MEGHAN BARR | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Move to Amend, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Fec, Citizens United, Occupy the Courts, Petition to Amend, Business News

NEW YORK -- Facing freezing temperatures and snowy weather, several hundred protesters gathered at courthouses across the nation Friday and some clash...

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Iowa Kicks Off the Media's Mud Season

Timothy Karr | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Elections, Presidential Elections, Television, Fcc, Super PACs, Iowa, Political Ads, Citizens United, Fec, Media News
Timothy Karr

It's estimated that American television viewers will see political ads aired more than 200,000 times by the first week in November. What we're far less likely to see is any explanation of who really sponsors these ads.

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Working to Eviscerate the Laws They Are Supposed to Support

Fred Wertheimer | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Transparency, Corruption, Chris Van Hollen, Disclosure, Fec, Secret Donors, Citizens United, Republicans, Politics News
Fred Wertheimer

The three Republican Commissioners on the six-member FEC have once again shown their disdain for the nation's campaign finance laws they are supposed ...

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Can Occupy Overturn Citizens United? "Dear 99%ers..."

Mark Green | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Buckley v. Valeo, David Koch, Justice Roberts, Karl Rove, First Amendment, Public Citizen, Michael Bloomberg, Occupy Wall Street, Free Speech for People, Dylan Ratigan, Citizens United, Floyd Abrams, Corporatism, Brennan Center, Dr. Martin Luther King, Joseph Stiglitz, Sandra Day O'Connor, George Will, 99%, Common Cause, Jr., Samuel Alito, Fec, DISCLOSE Act, Antonin Scalia, Politics News
Mark Green

Nothing could enhance American democracy more than if Occupy Wall Street helped enact the 28th Constitutional Amendment to end the pretense that corporations are people who speak with money. The 99% can stop the privatization of government.

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FEC Deadlocks on Advisory Opinion Request from American Crossroads, Provides No Support for Crossroads to Run 'Fully Coordinated' Ads

Fred Wertheimer | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Corruption, Fec, Karl Rove, American Crossroads, Rove, Federal Election Commission, Politics News
Fred Wertheimer

In a decision Thursday, the FEC refused approval to the effort by American Crossroads to run ads "fully coordinated" with candidates and have the ads treated as ads that were not coordinated with the candidates.

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Paul Blumenthal

FEC Deadlocks Discussing Rove, Colbert

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Super Pac, Video, Karl Rove, The Colbert Report, Donald Mcgahn, Federal Election Commission, Elections 2012, Fec, Citizens United, Colbert Report, Ellen Weintraub, American Crossroads, Crossroads GPS, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Stephen Colbert 2012, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In a Thursday session featuring a lengthy and testy exchange between two commissioners and the repeated invocation of comedian Stephen C...

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Paul Blumenthal

Tea Party Senator Loses Bid To Control Corporate Fundraising

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.01.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission drew a line Thursday on how far campaign finance laws will unravel in the wake of the Supreme Court's 20...

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Where Is George Orwell When We Need Him?

Fred Wertheimer | Posted 01.11.2012

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Fred Wertheimer

American Crossroads and the FEC are living in fantasy land and neither the FEC regulation nor the American Crossroads Advisory Opinion Request can stand the light of day.

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Paul Blumenthal

Karl Rove, Stephen Colbert Agree On Super PAC Independence

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sitting before the Federal Election Commission is a request from the Karl Rove-linked group American Crossroads for a ruling that allows...

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Paul Blumenthal

What Obama Can Do To Fix 'National Campaign Finance Scandal'

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Mitch McConnell, Public Citizen, Fec, Elections 2012, Fred Wertheimer, Citizens United, Barack Obama, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Campaign Finance, Democracy 21, Common Cause, Video, League of Women Voters, Federal Election Commission, Campaign Legal Center, U.S. PIRG, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has been criticized before for failing to live up to promises made in his 2008 campaign on such issues as pharmac...

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Paul Blumenthal

Tea Party Senator Wants To Ask Business For Unlimited Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Freshman Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a member of the Tea Party Caucus, is pushing the boundaries of campaign finance law by seeking to open ...

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Harry Chapin on What Made America Famous

Alan Grayson | Posted 11.27.2011

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Alan Grayson

As we used to say in the House of Representatives, today I'm going to yield to my esteemed colleague from Brooklyn, singer and songwriter Mr. Harry Chapin. For a song that he wrote 37 years ago, called "What Made America Famous."

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Giffords To Get Permission To Use Donations For Security

AP | Posted 10.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission is expected to rule Thursday that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' campaign can use donations to make $2,200 wor...

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Democrats and Republicans alike are exploiting new fundraising loophole

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 09.26.2011

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The Center for Public Integrity

By Peter H. Stone, iWatch News July 27, 2011It was a traditional fundraising trek to New York, but with a twist.While Mitt Romney was in New Yo...

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FEC Orders John Edwards To Repay Millions

AP | ANDREW MIGA | Posted 09.20.2011

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WASHINGTON — Former Sen. John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign should repay the U.S. Treasury more than $2 million, the Federal Election Comm...

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Boulder Vs. Supreme Court

The Huffington Post | Andrea Rael | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Boulder City Council, Fec, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, Political Spending, City Manager Jane Brautigam, U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Councilman Macon Cowles, Denver News

Deliberating into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Boulder's City Council decided to have their city attorney draft a referendum to protest the U.S...

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Christine O'Donnell: Feds 'Slammed The Door Shut'

AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 09.14.2011

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DOVER, Del. — An attorney for Christine O'Donnell, the tea party favorite who lost a U.S. Senate bid in Delaware last year, is asking federal pr...

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Paul Blumenthal

Can Lawmakers Raise Money For Super PACs?

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is looking at three votes at its Thursday meeting on one key issue that would dramatically alter t...

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Stephen Colbert To Take On The FEC

AP | By ANDREW MIGA | Posted 08.24.2011

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WASHINGTON — Comedy Central's tongue-in-cheek commentator Stephen Colbert is expected to raise serious questions at next week's meeting of the Feder...

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Dan Froomkin

Colbert Request to FEC Goes Too Far, Reform Groups Warn

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.12.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The campaign finance reform community is by and large cheering on Stephen Colbert's pursuit of a Super PAC, seeing it as an inspired way...

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