Category Archives: campaigns
“DNC: Sanders campaign improperly accessed Clinton voter data”
WaPo reports.
Officials with the Democratic National Committee have accused the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders of improperly accessing confidential voter information gathered by the rival campaign of Hillary Clinton, according to several party officials.
Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign… Continue reading
“New Poll: Broad Support for Small-Donor Driven Solutions to Money in Politics”
Every Voice:
Seventy-two percent of Americans, a broad, bipartisan majority, support small-donor solutions to overhaul our broken campaign-finance system, according to new polling released today by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Every Voice.
“Voters from across the… Continue reading
“Window for an independent Trump bid is wide open”
I think this Politico piece seriously underestimates the hurdles facing Trump should he choose to run in a third-party bid.
“Adelson son-in-law orchestrated family’s purchase of Las Vegas Review-Journal”
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (on itself).
“Donald Trump says there’s ‘no chance’ he’ll make a third-party bid”
“Analysis: Super PACs dominate airwaves in presidential contest”
Fredreka Schouten for USA Today.
“McConnell Can Make Super PACs Obsolete”
David Bossie for the National Review.
“Inside the 2016 black market for donor emails”
Shane Goldmacher for Politico:
cott Walker has begun selling access to his email list to pay off his leftover presidential debt, renting out the email addresses of hundreds of thousands of supporters to former rivals, including Marco Rubio, John Kasich,… Continue reading
“Much-Anticipated FEC Legal Report Suggests Crossroads GPS Is a Political Committee”
Craig Holman of Public Citizen:
Note: As a result of a recent order in Public Citizen v. Federal Election Commission (FEC), the FEC has released a report (PDF) that has been kept under wraps for two years. It indicates… Continue reading
“The Kochs’ War on Poverty”
Vogel:
The political operation created by the billionaire conservative mega-donors Charles and David Koch is quietly investing millions of dollars in programs to win over an unlikely demographic target for their brand of small-government conservatism ― poor people.
The outreach… Continue reading
“Reform Groups Urge Democratic Leaders to Oppose Any Efforts to Kill Presidential Tax Checkoff System in Omnibus”
“Emily’s List accuses Rep. Chris Van Hollen of going after its donors”
WaPo:
A powerful Democratic women’s group says Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has been targeting its donors to peel away support from his primary rival, Rep. Donna F. Edwards, for Maryland’s open Senate seat.
In a complaint to the… Continue reading