Public Funds

In The Public Interest: Gas Prices Show Cutting High Speed Rail Is Short-Sighted

Rob Kerth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, High Speed Rail, Florida, Rick Scott, Public Funds, Governor Walker, Transportation, Green News
Rob Kerth

High speed rail makes sense. By refusing to invest in it when they have the chance, Governors Scott and Walker are keeping their states at the mercy of gas prices.

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Pork Industry Bailout Request Full of Fat

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Horse Protection Act, Iowa Pork Producers, Animal Welfare Act, National Debt, Commodity Programs, Public Funds, Pork, Usda, Critics, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

Our government actually bails out the pork industry when it overproduces and buys up volumes of surplus pork, typically by dumping these surplus commodities into our nation's schools and food programs.

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Urgent: New York City Needs a Public Advocate

Bill de Blasio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Budget, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg Term Limits, Public-Funds, Public Advocate, New York, New York News
Bill de Blasio

In these tough economic times, I want to use the Public Advocate's office to ensure that our City agencies are open, accountable, and efficient, and that our tax dollars are spent wisely and fairly.

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Will Thomas

Online Progressives File FEC Complaint Against McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: McCain Public Funds, McCain FEC, Mccain Public Financing, McCain DailyKos, John McCain, McCain Firedoglake, Public Funds, Public Financing, Federal Election Commission, Fec, McCain Federal Election Commission, Breaking Politics News, Politics News

The media may have lost interest in Sen. John McCain's fervent efforts to dodge campaign finance restrictions, but liberal bloggers are ratcheting up ...

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McCain Loan Raises FEC Questions

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: McCain Public Funds, Democratic Primary, Mccain Public Financing, Mccain Public Finance, 2008 Election, Public Financing, Public Funds, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The government's top campaign finance regulator says John McCain can't drop out of the primary election's public financing system u...

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McCain Campaign Banked On Taxpayer-Funded Bailout

TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: McCain Public Funds, Democratic Primary, John McCain, Mccain Public Financing, Public Funds, John McCain Frontrunner, McCain Campaign, McCain 2008, 2008 Election, Public Financing, Politics News

As The Washington Post reported on Saturday, John McCain's campaign struck a canny deal with a bank in December. If his campaign tanked, public funds ...

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Financial Straightjacket: McCain May Be Locked Into Public Financing

Daily Kos | DHinMI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: McCain Public Funds, Republican Primary, John McCain, Mccain Public Financing, Mccain, Public Funds, John McCain Frontrunner, McCain Obama, Public Financing, 2008 Election, Politics News

The day of the Florida primary I wrote about John McCain's financial dilemma: Some months back McCain's campaign applied for federal matching cam...

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