Public Funds

Pork Industry Bailout Request Full of Fat

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


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.

Urgent: New York City Needs a Public Advocate

Bill de Blasio | Posted 08.02.2009 | New York


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.

Will Thomas

Online Progressives File FEC Complaint Against McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics


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

McCain Loan Raises FEC Questions

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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

McCain Campaign Banked On Taxpayer-Funded Bailout

TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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 ...

Financial Straightjacket: McCain May Be Locked Into Public Financing

Daily Kos | DHinMI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...