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• in Politics
  The Constitutional Amendment to Reverse Citizens United
  Fixing campaign finance isn't nearly enough. To fix America, we need to fix the idea that corporations are people.
  by jimmyzuma / on Nov 3, 2011
• in Technology
  Facebook Secretly Nostalgic for Yesterday's Internet
  Facebook appears to be angling to corner the market on targeted political advertising, free from campaign disclosure rules.
  by wac6 / on May 11, 2011
• in Politics
  Who Shall Mediate Roberts v. Obama?
  Take notice when the SCOTUS and POTUS are trying to goad us.
  by sussman / on Mar 10, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “campaign finance”

 

• January finance reports: Harris County state races

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 124
  In addition to county candidates, my 2012 Democratic primary election page has information about state and federal candidates who will be on the ballot in Harris County. There are numerous contested primaries, and while I’m not tracking information about Republican races on that page, I thought it would be useful ...
  20 hours ago

• Non-filers in Harris County races

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 124
  As of today, the following candidates for county offices in Harris County have not filed campaign finance reports with the County Clerk: Candidates for Sheriff Charles Massey El (D) Guy Clark (R, formerly D) Daniel Lemkuil (R) Candidates for HCDE Jarvis Johnson (D) Silvia Mintz (D) Timothy Rose (R) Tom Cruz ...
  1 day ago

• Pop Quiz

  
  Bark Bark Woof Woof — Authority: 501
  Is it more important to amend the Constitution to A) prevent two people of the same sex from getting married and enjoying the same rights and responsibilities as two people of the opposite sex, or B) to prevent the enshrinement of granting personhood to corporations and thereby giving them unlimited purchasing ...
  1 day ago

• The irony of Newt Gingrich and the Democrats

  
  alias Bruce. — Authority: 89
  is that the Dems still dont understand Newts crystal-clear, in-your-face tutorial about the raw force of audacity. Gingrich is surely doing his best to teach them. What better lesson could there be than the example of a hamster-faced, philandering, hypocritical ingrate soaring to top-level contention on the mere ...
  2 days ago

• Messed up priorities

  
  Massachusetts Liberal — Authority: 414
  Millionaires drop cash on candidates like candy, while elected officials look to tax candy to pay the bills. How did our priorities get so messed up? While our nation slowly, slowly emerges from the depths of a Great Recession triggered by lax government oversight, governors are looking in every nook and cranny ...
  5 days ago

• Who Is Sheldon Adelson, the Newt Gingrich Super PAC Billionaire Backer?

  
  Breningstall.com — Authority: 110
  Thats the question that The Atlantic asks today on its website. Here are a few sentences from the article that you may want to take note of: Hes a union-buster. Some of Adelsons bitterest political battles have been fought in his adopted home...
  5 days ago

• ‘Super PAC’ for Gingrich to Get $5 Million Infusion

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 449
  The supporter, Dr. Miriam Adelson, is the wife of Sheldon Adelson, a longtime Gingrich friend and patron who contributed $5 million to the super PAC, Winning Our Future, this month.
  1 week ago

• News You Can Use Digest – January 23, 2012

  
  Lobby Comply — Authority: 120
  Federal: Big Spending on Presidential Candidates Can Have Little Effect Google Protest of Anti-Piracy Bills Upends Traditional Lobbying New Super PAC Breed Pushed by Group From the States and Municipalities: California Business Interests Add to Speaker’s Rubber Duck Flock Connecticut SEEC ...
  1 week ago

• Dems Launch Citizens United Repeal

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 689
  Federal constitution amendments are the most difficult thing to achieve in American politics, which is why there hasnt been one in decades. But if ever there was a good shot at one, this might be it .
  1 week ago

• January finance reports: Harris County

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 124
  January is a very busy month for campaign finance reports, since they are due for all levels of government. I’ve been busy updating the 2012 Primary Election pages for Harris County and elsewhere in Texas with reports as I can find them. Here’s an overview of some races of interest in Harris County. I’ll ...
  1 week ago

• Arizona Republican Lawyers Association – 2012 Candidate Training Seminar

  
  Sonoran Alliance — Authority: 473
  
  1 week ago

• Con Law I Roundup

  
  The Debate Link — Authority: 519
  I taught my first class of Constitutional Law today (thus, as one of my colleagues put it, making me officially a "professor of constitutional law"). I think it went well -- particularly the part where we had a vibrant discussion about the merits and demerits of what they did not know to be the North Korean ...
  1 week ago

• Some of Roy McDonald’s contributors are strangers

  
  Capitol Confidential — Authority: 142
  “I’ve gotten checks from people who I have no idea who they are,” Sen. Roy McDonald told me a few moments ago. Indeed, the Saratoga Republican — one of four members of the GOP conference that controls the Senate who voted in favor of same-sex marriage — was feted by gay rights advocates in the last six ...
  1 week ago

• Inside VP Joe Biden’s San Francisco fundraiser

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 462
  I’ve just sent the White House my pool report on Vice President Joe Biden’s fundraising luncheon in San Francisco’s financial district. Read the full report, after the jump… Vice President Joe Biden was only slightly late arriving at the fundraising luncheon in the Bently Reserve, a former Federal Reserve Bank ...
  1 week ago

• City Room: Campaign Fund Balances Hint at City Races

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  New fund-raising disclosures by city politicians shed light on who might be considering a run for higher office.
  1 week ago

• Statewide Smoking Ban Dead Before It Gets Filed

  
  Page One — Authority: 498
  Effects of the Citizens United ruling are being felt two years later. Even Republicans now regret their involvement. [ Roll Call ] Tomorrow, Susan “chickens in the yard” Westrom will file legislation pushing a statewide smoking ban. This is a good thing. [Press Release] Make your own racist newsletter with ...
  1 week ago

• Activists and Investors Team Up to Tackle Citizens United

  
  Public Citizen — Authority: 406
  Lisa Gilbert If you’re not a campaign finance wonk, you may not have noted that a significant anniversary will arrive this weekend on January 21: on Saturday, the ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission turns two. This week two years ago, I and many other reformers spent days constantly ...
  1 week ago

• Buck Mckeon admits he would take special benefits????

  
  Patricia Mckeon for State Assembly? Really Patricia? — Authority: 109
  This story is just getting stranger and stranger. In a Signal "article," Buck denies doing anything wrong, says he never knew about the program, then oddly admits that if he had know about it he would have utilized it more heavily. "If I had known we had got a good deal (on the loan) then I would have gotten all my ...
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• Shaffer nets $112K in fourth quarter amid rumors he may jump from CD4 race

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 579
  Democratic state Senate President Brandon Shaffer, who is running fpr Congress against freshman Republican Rep. Cory Gardner in Colorado’s Fourth District, reported today that he pulled down $112,000 from more than 600 donors in the final quarter of 2011. The report comes as news circulates that Shaffer is testing ...
  1 week ago

• Time For Real Campaign Finance Reform

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 711
  Monday’s debate in South Carolina spent what I thought was an inordinate amount of time focusing on the details of SuperPAC ads and who was responsible for what, which at one point led Mitt Romney to make this comment: ROMNEY: We all would like to have Super PACs disappear, to tell you the truth. Wouldn’t it ...
  1 week ago

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