Campaign Donations

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Kamala Harris & Asian Americans

Gautam Dutta | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Campaign Donations, Mixed Race, South Asian, Asian American Voters, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, Asian Americans, South Asian Americans, Racial Identity, Barack Obama Racial Identity, Asian-American Vote, Barack Obama, Mixed Ethnicity, Politics News

Harris is certainly the first African American woman to become a District Attorney in California. But she's also the first Asian American to accomplish that impressive feat.

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Ex-Lawmakers Hand Campaign Cash To Lobbyists

Jenna Staul | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Campaign Donations, Lobbyblog, Lobbying, Business News

USA Today reports that leftover campaign funds are being put to use for lobbying firms. Ex-lawmakers who now work as lobbyists or advisers to lobbyi...

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On Wednesday, the President Has to Move the Health Care Debate from a Marketplace of Lies to a Marketplace of Ideas

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

If outright lies end up killing health care reform, the Republicans will have won, but, more importantly, the American people will have lost.

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When "Yes We Can!" Meets "No We Won't!"

Mitchell Bard | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

If the Democrats in Congress don't find a way to become co-advocates with the president on these important issues, their future political problems will be the least of it.

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Health Insurance Industry Releases Ad Thanking Max Baucus For Screwing Over The American People

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 08.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Public Option, Humor, Lobbyists, Bribery, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Barack Obama, Campaign Donations, Satire, Political Humor, Health Care Reform, Obstructionist, Max Baucus, Political Satire, Max Baucus Health Care, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Comedy News

You have to admire the gumption of Baucus and the Blue Dogs. Ignoring the will of the people. Happily to derailing the Democratic party agenda. Stabbing their President in the back.

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Recalcitrant Blue Dogs Raked In Health Industry Cash

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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The seven Blue Dog Democrats holding up health care reform legislation in the House Energy and Commerce Committee have received tens of thousands more...

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How do Health Care Lobby Dollars Match Influence in Congress?

Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Baucus, House of Representatives, Budget, Lobbyists, Rangell, Obama Administration, Congressional Budget, Barack Obama, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Campaign Donations, Senate, Health, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Home News

A better question might be: Who's really paying for and benefiting from reform? Taxpayers? Or health care industry lobbies?

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TARP Recipients Testifying For Congressmen They Bankrolled

Open Secrets | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Spence Bachus, TARP Money, Melvin Watt, Wells Fargo, Barney Frank, Bank of America, Campaign Donations, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Jim Himes, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon, State Street Corporation, House Financial Services Committee, Citigroup, Politics News

The eight CEOs testifying Wednesday before the House Financial Services Committee about how their companies are using billions of dollars in bailout f...

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Look out Sarah Palin! Obama Offers 4-Year Calendar

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Campaign Donations, Dnc, Donations, Washington Times, Bellantoni, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama Four Year Calendar, Politics News

First published at WashingtonTimes.com I blogged last week about the Sarah Palin 2009 calendar, and this week Team Obama sent over a new fundr...

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Study's Claim on the 'Myth' of Obama's Small Donor Base Is Itself a 'Myth'

Greg Mitchell | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Campaign Donations, Funds, Fundraising, Barack Obama, Obama Small Donors, Obama, Hillary Clinton Huffington, Politics News

A new CFI study disputes the "myth" that Obama rode a wave of small donations to victory. But buried in the report, are all the figures and arguments for showing that the CFI's "myth" is actually a myth.

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New Breed Of "Mega-Bundlers" Supercharged Campaign Finance

Wall Street Journal | BRODY MULLINS and IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business

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Through Oct. 15, the two presidential candidates had raised a total of $350 million in their joint fund-raising accounts, about equally. In 2004, Pres...

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Military Overwhelmingly Supports the Other Guy

Bart Motes | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Campaign Donations, John McCain, Obama, Military, Barack Obama, Military Supports Obama, Media News

Clearly the people closest to the action believe in John McCain's plan to win the war and reject Obama's cut and run foolishness...Oh wait....

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Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain

Jon Soltz | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Campaign Donations, Iraq War, Barack Obama 2008, John McCain, Military, Troops, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, 2008 Campaign, Iraq, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Members of the military are speaking with their checkbooks, and reiterating just how strongly they believe we need to begin to redeploy from Iraq, and go on the offense against al Qaeda.

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More Than $1 Billion Donated So Far To Presidential Candidates

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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A milestone in the intersection of money and politics was reached last month: more than $1 billion has been donated to candidates running for the Whit...

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Lobbysts, Corporations Giving Heaps Of Cash To Conservative Dems

CQ | Alan Ota | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics

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Once a splinter group with Southern, populist roots, the Blue Dog Coalition has become a pinstriped national alliance with ties to K Street and a penc...

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Campaign Donors On FundRace

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The Battle For Harlem Heats Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Campaign Donations, Harlem Office, Bill Clinton, Super Tuesday, Perkins, Harlem, New York Primary, Bill Perkins, Hillary Clinton, Obama Country, David Dinkins, Barack Obama, Dinkins, Politics News

On the corner of 130th Street and Malcolm X Blvd in New York sits Sen. Barack Obama's Harlem headquarters. It is a lively place, with full glass windo...

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Bundled Donations Pose Risks For Candidates

Politico.com | Will Evans | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was recently suspended from practicing law. A backer of Democrat Barack Obama defaulted...

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Obama Campaign Changes Its Story Over Controversial Donations

Washington Post | John Solomon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign helped recommend several of the donations his political action committee made in recent months to...

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Obama Promises New Disclosure On Donation Bundlers

ABC News | Rhonda Schwartz and Justin Rood | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Presidential candidate Barack Obama, D-Ill., said Monday evening he would release new details on the levels of campaign contributions raised by "bundl...

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Neck-And-Neck

Congressional Quarterly | CQ Staff | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Campaign Donations, 2008 Fundraising, Dem Fundraising, Campaign Finance, 2008 Election, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Hillary Clinton, Fundraising, Democratic Party, Democratic Primary, Barack Obama, Home News

With less than 30 hours before the third quarter deadline, the top Democratic presidential candidates appear to be running neck-and-neck in the money ...

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High Holidays Over, Obama And Clinton Throw Big Bashes To Woo Jewish Donors

Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: 2008 Election, Jews, Campaign Donations, Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, Jewish Donors, Donors, Barack Obama, Home News

With the High Holidays over, the Clinton and Obama presidential campaigns are stepping up their competition for cash from the nation's elite and well-...

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