Super PACs Pro and Con
USA Today editorial: 2016 presidential campaigns chase money, with no cop on the beat: Our view
Brad Smith response: Super PACs are Not the Problem
Category Archives: campaigns
“Big GOP Donors Giving to New Accounts Congress Created to Help Political Parties”
Bloomberg BNA:
Big Republican donors are taking advantage of new, high-dollar limits on political party contributions established by Congress last year, with David Koch, Sheldon Adelson and Henry Kravis counted among the latest donors providing a total of more… Continue reading
“Koch Brothers Plan to Fund ‘Several’ GOP 2016 Presidential Hopefuls”
Bloomberg:
The good news for Republican presidential candidates seeking to get a slice of Koch brothers cash is that the siblings, two of the world’s richest individuals, seem to be in a sharing mood.
In a Saturday interview on… Continue reading
“Schock’s ties to donors raise questions about travel, condo, ‘swaps'”
“Media Executives are Salivating over Big Money Flooding the 2016 Election Cycle”
“How Scott Walker and His Allies Hijacked the Wisconsin Supreme Court; And what it means for the probe into alleged campaign violations by Walker and conservative dark-money groups.”
Pema Levy for Mother Jones.
“Liberal operatives paid big bucks by embattled pro-Clinton super PAC”
“Karl Rove’s Crossroads Empire Adds a New Senate Defense Arm; A new secret-money nonprofit branch will focus on defending the GOP majority.”
Shane Goldmacher with an important addition to Eric Lichtblau’s earlier story on Crossroads.
“Rove’s Crossroads PAC Is No Longer G.O.P.’s ‘Big Dog’”
“Win Lunch with Bush; Owe Uncle Sam; For political sweepstakes winners, there really is no such thing as a ‘free’ lunch.”
Shane Goldmacher for National Journal:
Marcus Owens, a lawyer with the IRS for 25 years and now an attorney at Loeb and Loeb in Washington D.C., said that those issued a 1099 form could be caught fairly easily by the… Continue reading
Cleta Mitchell in Breitbart Interview Suggests Jeb Bush Breaking Campaign Finance Law
Very interesting.
UPDATE: A reader points me to the disclosure at the end of the article about the article’s author:
[Disclosures: Sarah Rumpf was a summer clerk at the Orlando office of Foley and Lardner, Cleta Mitchell’s law firm, and… Continue reading