Chutzpah Dept
Shaun McCutcheon complaining that Democrats may have sold access to big donors.
He had to realize his litigation would only make that easier.
Category Archives: campaigns
“Donald Trump Jacked Up His Campaign’s Trump Tower Rent Once Somebody Else Was Paying It”
S.V. Date for HuffPo.
Nearly quintupled.
“Emails reveal how foundation donors got access to Clinton and her close aides at State Dept.”
WaPo:
The crown prince of Bahrain, whose government gave more than $50,000 to the Clintons’ charity and who participated in its glitzy annual conference, wanted a last-minute meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
U2 rocker and philanthropist Bono,… Continue reading
“On 2nd try, Miami-Dade commissioners approve petition count”
Miami Herald:
Miami-Dade commissioners agreed Monday to start counting nearly 130,000 signatures tied to a proposed ballot item on new campaign-finance rules, but warned they still might kill the proposal over stern concerns raised by county lawyers.
The 9 to… Continue reading
Trump Running Pre-Citizens United Type Campaign But Without Soft Money
NYT on the worst of both worlds for Trump campaign:
The arrangement is a kind of throwback to the pre-Citizens United era, when party organizations — not independent “super PACs” and political nonprofits — assumed many of the financial and… Continue reading
“Sacramento’s new ‘slush funds’: Ballot measure committees”
San Jose Mercury News:
A Bay Area News Group analysis shows that the number of candidate-controlled ballot measure committees has skyrocketed from six to at least three dozen over the past decade. Of the nearly $3 million spent by… Continue reading
Something Unusual in Trump’s Latest Fundraising Report
Matea Gold for WaPo:
However, Trump does not appear to be harvesting as much cash from those joint fundraising efforts as Clinton does. His campaign said that that it raised $64 million with the RNC through online donations and direct… Continue reading
“Foundation Ties Bedevil Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign”
NYT:
With Mrs. Clinton facing accusations of favoritism toward Clinton Foundation donors during her time as secretary of state, former President Bill Clinton told foundation employees on Thursday that the organizationwould no longer accept foreign or corporate donations should… Continue reading
Condemn Despicable Attacks on Trump Supporters—But Don’t Attribute It to the Clinton Campaign
I have long condemned violence and the threat of violence during elections. As I started a tweetstorm back in June, when some people were physically attacking Trump supporters, Our democratic system depends upon the ability to peacefully gather for political… Continue reading
New Trump TV Commercial Suggests Hillary Clinton Rigging Elections
The new commercial begins with the words: “In Hillary Clinton’s America, the system stays rigged against Americans.” This part of the commercial features two pictures, the first a polling place with the words “vote here” and the second with a… Continue reading
“How One Family’s Deep Pockets Helped Reshape Donald Trump’s Campaign”
Must-read Nick Confessore on how one plutocratic family has great influence over even a purported billionaire.
“Trump advisers waged covert influence campaign”
AP:
A firm run by Donald Trump’s campaign chairman directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine’s ruling political party, attempting to sway American public opinion in favor of the country’s pro-Russian government, emails obtained by The… Continue reading
Google Partners with Perkins Coie to Offer Voting Information
This looks to be super useful to voters, and a fantastic project, but I suspect we will hear some Republican complaints on the partnership with one of the top Democratic law firms:
We’re less than three months away from… Continue reading
“How to Beat Extremism”
William Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove in The Hill:
When the federal appeals court in the capital of the former Confederacy struck down America’s most discriminatory voter suppression law, the judges noted that the bill passed by North Carolina’s 2013… Continue reading