Political Fundraising

Good News For Bob Kerrey In Nebraska Senate Campaign

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 04.13.2012

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Former Sen. Bob Kerrey's (D-Neb.) campaign announced Friday that he raised more than $900,000 since entering the race on Feb. 29. to fill the seat of ...

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WATCH: GOP Freshmen Caught At Fundraiser

Posted 03.16.2012

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CBS News conducted an undercover camera investigation at a recent GOP fundraiser for freshmen congressmen at the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, Fla., o...

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Santorum's Piggy Banks: Charity And PAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 01.13.2012

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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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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Candidate Tries To Hide Top Secret Donor Party (PHOTOS)

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 12.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich learned his lesson last week, after holding a fundraiser in a glass atrium downtown and drawing scores of protesters from ...

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Occupy Needs Lobbyist

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Political Fundraising, Value-Added-Tax, Grover Norquist, Campaign Finance Reform, Lobbyists, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

Even if Occupy could agree on one purpose, Occupy wouldn't work because Congress no longer responds to the needs of the people. It only responds to the needs of the lobbyists. The people have lost control of their government.

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Obama Raising Far More Financial-Sector Cash Than GOP Hopefuls

The Washington Post | Dan Eggen and T.W. Farnam | Posted 12.19.2011

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Despite frosty relations with the titans of Wall Street, President Obama has still managed to raise far more money this year from the financial and ba...

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Boomshakalakah! 100k in One Week as the Wave Surges

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Dylan Ratigan, Get Money Out, Jimmy Williams, Occupy Wall Street, Political Fundraising, Campaign Finance Reform, Slidefreestyle, Politics News

One hundred thousand of us have decided to get money out of politics once and for all. This is a monumental task that we can only achieve with a single shared long-term goal: To force debate and passage of a Constitutional amendment to ban all private money in politics.

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Campaign Donors Called Upon For Expert Testimony

The Washington Post | T.W. Farnam | Posted 05.25.2011

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The contributors' presence at the hearing -- first reported by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call -- does not violate congressional rules, but watch...

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Secret Spending Could Drive Wedge Between Democrats For 2012

Mother Jones | Andy Kroll | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the midterms wreckage still smoldering, 150 or so Democratic donors will meet at Washington's Mandarin Oriental Hotel this week to ruminate on wh...

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Reversing History

Craig Barnes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, New Mexico, Susana Martinez, Political-Fundraising, Sarah Palin, Middle Class, Karl Rove, New Deal, Election 2010, Glenn Beck, Health Insurance, New Mexico Election Results 2010, Politics News

Glenn Beck and Karl Rove and Swift-Boat financier Bob Perry who is sending hundreds of thousands to Susana Martinez are explicitly about reversing all the gains of the 1930s New Deal and even before.

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Return Of The Secret Donors

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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To old political hands, wise to the ways of candidates and money, 1972 was a watershed year. Richard M. Nixon's re-election campaign was awash in cash...

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400 Fundraisers In 14 Days: Lawmakers, Candidates Attending Epic Number Of Fundraisers

Politico | Chris Frates | Posted 05.25.2011

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But outside the Capitol, in the private rooms of Washington's top steakhouses, political clubs and Capitol Hill townhouse salons, there is an epic mon...

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GOP's Fundraising Handicap Raises Election Concerns

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Republican National Committee's $5.3 million war chest for the final stretch of the midterm election campaign--which is half the amount of its Dem...

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Chuck Schumer Is New York's Fundraising Champion

nydailynews.com | By Michael Mcauliff | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON - Andrew Cuomo may be on a record fund-raising pace, but he doesn't have the best-heeled campaign in New York. Chuck Schumer does. The D...

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Wall Street and Legalized Loan Sharks

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gary Rivlan notes in his book, Broke USA, "the working poor have become big business." You wouldn't think that poor people would be a growth market, but businesses make big money off people who live paycheck to paycheck.

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Campaign Contributions Up Five Percent In Fourth Quarter As Big Donors Beg For The Begging To Stop

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Campaign contributions to members of the House of Representatives increased 5.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to a preliminary anal...

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Beer: It's Also For Political Fundraising

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beer: it's not just for diffusing racial tensions. It's also for political fundraising. As are wine, bourbon, cocktails, margaritas, and mojitos -- al...

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Dems To Raise Funds Directly Through Twitter

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011

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The new tech wave in politics is now going a step further: Democrats are raising money directly on Twitter....

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Mitt Romney Announces Essay Contest, Which Will Be A "Game Changer" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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What's this thing, on the YouTubes? From Wonkette comes Mitt Romney, who, while he "doesn't need to tell us that our nation faces a new generation of...

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Zelizer's Corner: Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement From the New Deal to Reagan

Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 05.25.2011

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This book traces a network of wealthy business leaders who, starting in the 40s and on through the 80s, poured their funds and energy into making conservatism a viable and powerful political force.

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Hot Flashes From the End of the Trail

Alison Teal | Posted 05.25.2011

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I told Clark how much I admired him and his campaign and with tears streaming down his face, he said, "That was just a lucky moment in time for me. This, this is history."

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New Group Plans Campaign Targeting GOP Donors

New York Times | MICHAEL LUO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Accountable America, Tom Matzzie, Political Fundraising, 2008 Elections, Campaign Gop Donors, Politics News

Nearly 10,000 of the biggest donors to Republican candidates and causes across the country will probably receive a foreboding "warning" letter in the ...

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