Political Action Committees

Sam Stein

Romney's Secret Weapon

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Romney Nikki Haley, Romney Surrogates, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Romney Marijuana, Mitt Romney Pacs, Video, Republican Primary, Political Action Committees, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney 2012, Romney New Hampshire, Romney South Carolina, Romney States, Romney Pacs, Romney Alabama, Romney Iowa, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's increasingly likely victory in the Republican presidential primary is a testament to the value of a well-organized and hea...

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Money for Love? Romney Campaign Gives Over $1.7 Million to Republicans

Corbin Hiar | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Delegates, Political Action Committees, Center for Public Integrity, Leadership Pac, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum 2012, John Kasich, 2012 Republican Primary, National Institute on Money in State Politics, Free and Strong America PAC, Super Tuesday 2012, Nikki Haley, Iwatch News, Campaign Finance, Super Tuesday, Elections 2012, 2012 Election, Republicans, Politics News
Corbin Hiar

Political committees controlled by Mitt Romney's campaign have made generous donations to prominent Republicans in early primary states, but records show contributions have tailed off as the GOP nominees head in to Super Tuesday.

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Move Over Colbert, There's A New Super PAC In Town

Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Super Pac, Video, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Political Action Committees, Super PACs, Occupy Wall Street, Business News, Colbert Super Pac, Federal Election Committee, Occupy Movement, Business News

One Occupy Wall Street activist wants to put the protest's money where its mouth is. (CLICK HERE FOR LIVE UPDATES) John Paul Thornton, a member ...

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GOPowers to the People

Jim Jaffe | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Gop Presidential Candidates, Hillary Clinton, Political Action Committees, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Super Pac, 2012 Election, Super PACs, Elections 2012, Politics News
Jim Jaffe

You don't have to be enamored with any of the Republican candidates to enjoy the exercise and the proof it provides that power resides with the people.

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Perry Considering New Super PAC

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Super Pac, Video, Political Action Committees, Campaign Fundraising, In Case You Missed It Politics, Super PACs, Rick Perry 2012, Elections 2012, 10 Things, Rick Perry Super Pac, Rick Perry Fundraising, Rick Perry, Politics News

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is looking into using leftover cash from his failed Republican presidential campaign to create a PAC or super PAC. In a Monda...

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'New Reality' Of Citizens United 'Raises Concerns'

AP | By STEPHEN BRAUN | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Super Pac, Super Pac Donations, Video, Political Action Committees, 2012 Election, Super PACs, Elections 2012, Foreign Donations, Citizens United, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Money pouring into the presidential election from super political action committees and nonprofit campaign groups appears so far to be s...

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Paul Blumenthal

Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Mocks Anti-Coordination Rule

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Stephen Colbert 2012, Super Pac, The Colbert Report, Supreme Court Campaign Finance, Super PACs, Citizens United, Colbert, Campaign Finance, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Stephen Colbert, Video, Political Action Committees, Campaign Finance Reform, Colbert Nation, Colbert Super Pac, Colbert Report, Politics News

This is the final part of a five-part series by The Huffington Post about Stephen Colbert's ongoing exploration of the nation's campaign finance laws....

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Paul Blumenthal

Stephen Colbert Copies Karl Rove In Secret Money Quest

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Stephen Colbert 2012, Super Pac, The Colbert Report, Super PACs, Supreme Court Campaign Finance, Citizens United, Colbert, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Campaign Finance, Stephen Colbert, Video, Political Action Committees, Campaign Finance Reform, Colbert Nation, Colbert Super Pac, Colbert Report, Politics News

This is part four of a five-part series by The Huffington Post about Stephen Colbert's ongoing exploration of the nation's campaign finance laws. Read...

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Paul Blumenthal

Mr. Super PAC Goes To Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Stephen Colbert 2012, Super Pac, The Colbert Report, Super PACs, Supreme Court Campaign Finance, Citizens United, Colbert, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Campaign Finance, Stephen Colbert, Video, Political Action Committees, Campaign Finance Reform, Colbert Nation, Colbert Super Pac, Colbert Report, Politics News

This is part three of a five-part series by The Huffington Post about Stephen Colbert's ongoing exploration of the nation's campaign finance laws. Rea...

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Paul Blumenthal

Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Puts Comedy Central Host In Big Leagues (Part 2)

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.20.2012

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This is part two of a five-part series by The Huffington Post about Stephen Colbert's ongoing exploration of the nation's campaign finance laws. Read ...

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Paul Blumenthal

Colbert's War: Only A Comedian Can Explain Country's Campaign Finance Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Stephen Colbert 2012, Super Pac, The Colbert Report, Supreme Court Campaign Finance, Super PACs, Citizens United, Colbert, Campaign Finance, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Stephen Colbert, Video, Political Action Committees, Campaign Finance Reform, Colbert Nation, Colbert Super Pac, Colbert Report, Politics News

This is the first part of a five-part series by The Huffington Post about Stephen Colbert's ongoing explanation of the nation's campaign finance laws....

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Christina Wilkie

Santorum's Piggy Banks: Charity And PAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Video, South Carolina Primary, Political Action Committees, Charity, 2012 Election, Rick Santorum, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum 2012, Political Fundraising, GOP Candidates, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The hottest phrase in Washington during the first cold, gray week of 2001 was "compassionate conservatism." George W. Bush had just been...

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Serious Questions Exist About Legality of Presidential Candidate Super PACs

Fred Wertheimer | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Congress, Political Action Committees, 2012 Election, Superpacs, Federal Election Commission, Iowa Caucuses, 2012 Presidential Race, Citizens United, Politics News
Fred Wertheimer

Congress needs to pass legislation to protect the integrity of the nation's campaign finance laws and ensure that candidate-specific Super PACs are not used as vehicles to circumvent candidate contribution limits.

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Sam Stein

Mitt Romney Turns Against The Hand That Funds Him

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Politics News, Romney Political Action Committees, Romney Super PACs, Mitt Romney 1994, Video, Political Action Committees, Romney Campaign, Super PACs, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Obama Public Financing, Romney Pacs, Restore Our Future, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- When a political action committee supportive of Mitt Romney announced in early July that it had raised $12 million during the first half...

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Sam Stein

Mitt Romney Campaign Being Boosted By Type Of Fundraising He Wanted Outlawed

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Struggling to hang on in the polls, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been saved, in part, by a friendly...

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John Celock

Jan Brewer Seeks To Influence 2012 Elections

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Federal PAC, Arizona Republicans, Video, Jan Brewer, Redistricting, Arizona Redistricting, Political Action Committees, 2012 Elections, Campaign Fundraising, Arizona Politics, Jan PAC, Arizona Redistricting Commission, Colleen Coyle Mathis, Politics News

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has created a federal political action committee seeking to support Republican congressional candidates in the 2012 electi...

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Paul Blumenthal

New Powers For Super PACs

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Elections 2012, Super Pac, Video, Political Action Committees, Citizens United, Federal Election Commission, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission announced new rules Wednesday allowing traditional political action committees to open a segregated acco...

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State For Sale: Art Pope, Citizens United, And North Carolina Politics

newyorker.com | Jane Mayer | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Politics, Republican National Committee, Redistricting, Political Action Committees, Art Pope, James Arthur Pope, North Carolina Free Enterprise Foundation, Democrats, North Carolina, Politics News

In the spring of 2010, the conservative political strategist Ed Gillespie flew from Washington, D.C., to Raleigh, North Carolina, to spend a day layin...

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'The Most Dangerous Vehicle For Corruption In The Political System'

AP | JACK GILLUM and BETH FOUHY | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Super PACs, Gop 2012, President Barack Obama, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Presidential Campaign, Rick Perry, Barack Obama, Pacs, Video, Political Action Committees, Mitt Romney 2012, Rick Perry 2012, Barack Obama 2012, Fundraising, Gop 2012 Presidential Candidates, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Think of super PACs as shadow cash machines for presidential candidates. They're going to be big this year. Real big....

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Paul Blumenthal

Rick Perry Presidential Bid Supported By Three Super PACs In Key Primary States

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Rick Perry for President, Super Pac, Republican Primary, Political Action Committees, Jobs for Florida, Rick Perry 2012, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Elections 2012, Jobs for Iowa, Jobs for South Carolina, Rick Perry, Campaign Finance, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A new Super PAC, Jobs for Iowa, released an ad yesterday touting Texas Governor Rick Perry for an as-yet-unannounced run in the Republic...

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Paul Blumenthal

Major Conservative Groups Divided On Boehner Debt Limit Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Debt Ceiling Talks, John Boehner Debt Ceiling, Debt Ceiling, Republican Donors, John Boehner, Senate Republicans, Senate Races, Elections 2012, Obama Debt Ceiling, House Republicans, Campaign Finance, Political Action Committees, 112th Congress, Club for Growth, Chamber of Commerce, Debt Ceiling Debate, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In the home stretch of the debt limit debate, two of the biggest conservative groups have opened a fissure on the Republican side of the...

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Amanda Terkel

Democrats Challenge RNC On 2012 Campaign Transparency

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Pacs, Dnc, Political Action Committees, Lobbyists, Rnc, Elections 2012, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Reince Priebus Rnc, Reince Priebus, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Democratic National Committee (DNC) issued a challenge to its Republican counterpart on Wednesday, calling on the party and its pres...

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Paul Blumenthal

Sarah Palin's PAC Raises $1.6 Million So Far This Year

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Political Action Committees, Sarah Palin, Elections 2012, Sarah Palin 2012, Fundraising, Sarahpac, Palin, Sarah Palin News, Campaign Finance, Pac, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The political action committee of former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin raised $1.6 million over...

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Paul Blumenthal

Fresh Ways To Donate: GOP Frosh Form PACs

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Political Action Committees, Rand Paul, Kristi Noem, Rob Portman, Mike Lee, 112th Congress, Allen West, Kelly Ayotte, Tim Scott, Dan Coats, Campaign Finance, Republicans, Politics News

Keeping Republican Ideas Strong Timely And Inventive. Reinventing A New Direction. Protecting Our Republican Team. American Liberty And Nation. Grassr...

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Amanda Terkel

Al Franken Calls For More Robust Senate Agenda

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.18.2011

Read More: Russ Feingold, Super Pac, Political Action Committees, Netroots Nation, Al Franken, Elections 2012, Netroots, Corporate Donations, 112th Congress, Undisclosed Donations, 501c4, Politics News

MINNEAPOLIS -- Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) seems to have few Democratic allies in Congress interested in rejecting corporate dollars and undisc...

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