Whatever the impact of the mayor's spending on his own fortunes, the longer-term question is, what effect will it have on the system that tried to limit the importance of money in city politics?
Bob Kerrey | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics
You say you want to serve your country in Congress? Show me the money. Otherwise, you will be shown the door.
Lawrence Lessig | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics
It's that time of the year again. Every quarter, just as the FEC reporting deadlines approach, politicians go on a mad scramble for last-minute donations.
Robert Weissman | Posted 06.17.2009 | Business
There's no question that Wall Street is going to mobilize -- is already mobilized -- to defeat the administration's positive proposals.
Nick Nyhart | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
The battle ahead on financial regulation pits consumer interests against wealthy lobbying interests that have made a huge investment in campaign contributions.
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
Today, I received the note from Senator Bob Menendez promising Obama-time for a select few picked from those who kick in five bucks to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Jay Mandle | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
Advocates of publicly funded political campaigns are handicapped because changing the way electoral efforts are paid for is a "process" issue.
Jay Mandle | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics
This legislation will not be adopted without a hard fight. The special interests who benefit from the "pay to play" political system will not willingly concede defeat.
Lawrence Lessig | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics
For years, financial institutions like Bank of America and AIG donated millions to the very people who were supposed to regulate them. The result is obvious.
Nick Nyhart | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics
With powerful Congressional leaders now behind public financing, the chances to roll back the pay-to-play politics norm in Washington, D.C. have never looked better.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
Have things changed so dramatically that Obama will have room to dump his biggest campaign contributers overboard? That question will be answered in the coming weeks.
Paul Blumenthal | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics
Did you know that Senators still file their campaign finance reports on paper, delaying the disclosure of contributors to their campaigns, sometimes for months?
Robert Weissman | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business
What can $5 billion buy in Washington? Quite a lot. Over the 1998-2008 period, the financial sector spent more than $5 billion on U.S. federal camp...
Robert Weissman | Posted 03.04.2009 | Business
Financial deregulatory mania over the last three decades led directly to the current financial meltdown. Were the deregulators acting out of principl...
Duncan Quirk | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
Senators and Representatives are elected to represent their constituents, so why should Madoff and Stanford and others be allowed to donate to campaigns for which they are not constituents?
Kim Stolz | Posted 02.10.2009 | Home
On Monday, news broke of a Web site called EightMaps.com that reveals personal information about people and organizations who donated money in support...
CNN | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics
The Federal Election Commission announced Friday increased contribution limits for the 2009-2010 federal campaign cycle. Donors may now contribute $2...
Daniel Lubetzky | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
I am so enormously turned off by all the emails I keep getting from the Obama "campaign" asking me for more money! What are they going to do with this money?
James Love | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics
Obama will soon be President, working with solid democratic majorities in the House and the Senate. He should use his power to advance consumer interests in ways that have been neglected for decades.
Lawrence Lessig | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
I and others will soon announce a large grassroots campaign aimed at channeling the amazing desire for change that Americans are feeling right now into tangible and fundamental reform of our political system.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration is dreadful. His explanation is even worse. He shrinks Warren's statements about gay people down to a "disagreement," as if we're talking about ethanol subsidies.
Dave Johnson | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
Everyone understands that the root cause of this economic catastrophe was corporate money's influence on our politics. Corporations are able to con...
Laura MacCleery | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
There is a widely acknowledged symbiotic relationship between donors and politicians that tends over time merely to reinforce and reward the natural political inclinations of both.
Nick Nyhart | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
While public financing won't eradicate blind ambition or bloated egos, it will make a political class more accountable to voters instead of big campaign contributors and take out a key thoroughfare for corruption.
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
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