Super Pac

Key Rule Could Delay Crucial Disclosure

ProPublica | Posted 05.29.2012

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by Justin Elliott ProPublica, May 29, 2012, 10:32 a.m.After years of consideration, the Federal Communications Commission finally voted last month t...

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Citizens United Decision Leaves Industries Free To Battle In California Primary

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.26.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The race for a newly drawn congressional district in California's Inland Empire is shaping up as a clash of titans. It's not the candida...

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Dem Backers Step Up As Urgency Builds

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

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* House Majority PAC airms to win back House for Democrats * Democrats will need net gain of 25 seats to take it back * ...

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It Turns Out, We Can Indeed Haz Super PAC: Part I

Remy M. Maisel | Posted 05.25.2012

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My legal advisor and I spread out FEC Form 1 on the dining room table. "You mean this is really, really it?" I was asking in disbelief. "This one form, which asks nothing more difficult of me than to spell my name and address properly, is all I need?"

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Donald Trump Ponders His Own Super PAC

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.24.2012

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Reality television star, real estate mogul and Republican celebrity du jour Donald Trump told the conservative news site NewsMax that he was consideri...

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Congressional Battles Rage Away From Presidential Race

Reuters | Posted 05.23.2012

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* High stakes in elections in "orphan" congressional districts * Rep. Walsh vs. Democratic Iraq War veteran among key races ...

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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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Has Karl Rove Gone 'Subtle'?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.22.2012

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Karl Rove has millions of dollars to indulge his political id. So while we may be in a weird period of focus-group recommended restraint these days, don't expect the restraint to continue. There are reasons for this. It's an article of faith among a large portion of the GOP base that Sen. John McCain lost in 2008 because he wasn't willing to throw heat at Barack Obama and turn the month of October into an all-Jeremiah-Wright-all-the-time sick-a-doo fiesta. Last week's revelation of a proposed ad campaign to do just that served as a reminder that there are plenty of people with money to burn who've a yen to fight the 2012 battle from the gutter. And if Republicans are reminded too much of McCain's perceived failures as they watch Romney prosecute the Obama administration in a too-gentle fashion, they could end up discouraged.

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Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee To Donors: 'Wake Up!'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.23.2012

WASHINGTON -- The top Democrat in charge of protecting his party's majority in the Senate thinks it can be done. But he's deeply concerned his organiz...

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An Investor Perspective: WellPoint's Political Disclosure Controversy

Jack Ucciferri | Posted 05.21.2012

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By the nature of WellPoint's core business, it is connected to some of the most intimate moments in its clients' lives. WellPoint is in a risky business and by not being fully transparent about how they participate in politics, they amplify their risks even more.

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Priorities USA Action, Pro-Obama Super PAC, Continues Lackluster Fundraising

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.21.2012

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The super PAC supporting the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama had another lackluster month of fundraising in April, pulling in only $1.58...

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What's Missing From Mitt Romney's Fundraising?

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announced on May 17 that it had raised $40.1 million in April, when i...

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Restore Our Future, Pro-Romney Super PAC, Raises $3.8 Million In April

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.21.2012

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The super PAC backing Mitt Romney's presidential run retained its place as the number one super PAC, in terms of financing, as it pulled in an additio...

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Congressman's Experiment Aims To Reverse Role Of Big Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In the age of super PACs and K Street fundraisers, the hunt for grassroots donors, those giving small sums, has become less and less imp...

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Citizens United II: Sens. McCain And Whitehouse Slam Supreme Court Decision, Super PACs

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 05.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In an all-out broadside against the current state of campaign finance, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) submi...

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Meet The Billionaire Behind The Jeremiah Wright Attack Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Perhaps it wasn't how he hoped to make a splash, but TD Ameritrade founder J. Joe Ricketts hit the political big time this week when The...

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The Daily Szep -- The Fat Pac Cats

Paul Szep | Posted 05.17.2012

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Romney Repudiates Planned Reverend Wright Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Top aides to President Barack Obama's presidential campaign have long prepared for a general election battle far more divisive and nasty...

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Ameritrade (Moral) Stock Is Plummeting

Mike Lux | Posted 05.17.2012

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It is clear Republicans and their supporters will go to any length to win this election, but, as consumers, we do have a chance to change that. We have to say we will not permit our money be co-opted by firms whose founders, owners or major stakeholders promote division.

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Why Super PACs Aren't the Problem

Todd Phillips | Posted 05.16.2012

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We can cast votes in elections and the winner will run the government, but if citizens are uninformed, what's the point? Democracy will be phony. And if democracy is phony, it seems inevitable that our government and our society will be overflowing with problems. Is there another way?

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Big Donors Have Shunned Pro-Obama Super PAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The push to raise unlimited contributions by a super PAC backing President Barack Obama's reelection has run into a number of hurdles si...

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Texas Primary Race Heats Up With Mudslinging From Both Sides

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.16.2012

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With a new TV ad, an independent anti-incumbent super PAC is lobbing allegations of corruption into the congressional primary race heating up in El Pa...

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Dem Groups Planning Bold Move For Obama

Politico | Posted 05.16.2012

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Strapped for cash and facing a tidal wave of big-money Republican attack ads, Democratic super PACs are putting an unlikely plan in motion: the Super-...

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Rove-Conceived Group Making Huge Move

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.16.2012

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WASHINGTON — An independent group favoring Republican Mitt Romney is launching a $25 million, monthlong advertising campaign against President B...

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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Floyd Elliot | Posted 05.14.2012

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Once vote-selling has become an established part of the electoral process, we will eliminate paper contracts and sell our votes online, allowing us to immediately trade in the proceeds for merchandise from Amazon or SkyMall.

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