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Super PAC Contributions Slump As GOP Primary Fight Ends

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Contributions to super PACs fell in April from the month before as the Republican presidential primary race ended. The unlimited money p...

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Top 10 donors make up a third of donations to super PACs

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012

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By John Dunbar and Michael BeckeliWatch NewsContrary to expectations, the much-criticized court decisions that gave us "super PACs" have not led to ...

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Santorum, Gingrich Super PACs Raised Millions In March

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.20.2012

The super PACs supporting Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, the not-Romney candidates in the Republican presidential race, continued raising money in M...

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Big GOP Donor Wants To Fill Dump With Radioactive Waste

Bloomberg | Julie Bykowicz | Posted 04.05.2012

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Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger than 1,000 football fields and he can't fill it....

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When Billionaires Say Stupid, Dangerous Things

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.23.2012

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Money can't buy you love. Nor can it buy you maturity or common sense. The latest example is on display on Thursday's front page of the Wall Street Journal.

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Super PAC Donor's Money Sows Chaos In GOP Primary

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 03.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Billionaire industrialist Harold Simmons is pumping millions into super PACs to fight, in his words, "that socialist," President Barack ...

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Obama-Hating Billionaire Throws Millions At Defeating 'That Socialist'

The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 03.22.2012

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The reclusive, super-wealthy Republican donor Harold Simmons sat down for an interview with the Wall Street Journal in which he explained why he decid...

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Super PACs Are Tool Of The 1 Percent

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 03.23.2012

WASHINGTON -- Tales of super PAC spending in the Republican presidential race talk about the millions of dollars pouring into their coffers. A few spe...

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Worrying Signs Despite $17.2 Million Haul For Rick Perry

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Despite a late entrance into the Republican presidential primary, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has reported an impressive $17.2 million in camp...

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Under Rick Perry, Former Staffers Raked In Millions As Lobbyists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 11.16.2011

WASHINGTON -- Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has been good for the Austin lobbying business. Forty Perry aides have e...

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Rick Perry Sought To Sideline Nuclear Waste Site Critic

Reuters | Chris Baltimore, Peter Henderson & Karen Brooks | Posted 11.01.2011

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Texas governor Rick Perry tried to sideline a state commissioner who opposed expanding the scope of a nuclear-waste landfill owned by one of the gover...

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What Does a Vote for a GOP Candidate in November Really Mean?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

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A vote for the GOP in November will be a vote for the richest one percent of the country at the expense of the rest of us. And it will be a vote for the kind of fear that we, as a country, would eventually come to regret.

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Nukes Mess With Texas

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons wants to make Texas the dumping ground for as much of America's nuclear waste as he can.

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August May Be "Swift Boat" Health Care Month

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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A "Swift Boat" type effort could well be nigh as the dog days of summer settle in. We saw what happened in August 2004, as John Kerry took time off to gear up for the presidential campaign.

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Ayers Attack Funder's Daughter Backs Obama

Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Matzzie reports on the latest development in Barack Obama Bill Ayers attack ad saga: Irony of ironies. Harold Simmons, the Texas billionaire and...

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Is the American Issues Project Breaking Campaign Finance Law?

Rick Hasen | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Texas billionaire, Harold Simmons, donated nearly $2.9 million to the American Issues Project,Inc., to run ads tying Sen. Obama to a former member of the Weather Underground, William Ayers.

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Obama Asks DOJ To Block Terrorist Ad, Investigate Donors

Posted 05.25.2011

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***Check back for updates*** The Politico has the story that Barack Obama has appealed to the Department of Justice in his efforts to fight a Republi...

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Swift Boat Sugar Daddy's Other Water Issues?

Patt Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harold Simmons has written a check for all of the $2.87 million it's costing to run ominous-sounding ads in Ohio and Pennsylvania about Obama's relationship with William Ayers.

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