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Campaign-Finance Ruling Looms
Rochester :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
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Montana voters, fed up with the grip of out-of-state mining interests on local politicians, passed an initiative in 1912 banning corporate spending on candidates for state office. As soon as Tuesday, that law -- and similar ones in nearly half the states...
Tags: Michigan Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Supreme Court, Austin, Montana, action committees, political action, Rochester, John McCain, Lobbying, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, Politics, Business Finance, Corporation, Federal Election Commission, Independent expenditure
Donations to PerduePAC raise fund-raising ethics questions
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility Perdue, who will be finishing his second and final term in office next year, took in about $400,000 last year through PerduePAC, a political action committee his former staffers formed in 2007. Much of it was given a few days before the legislative session...
Tags: PerduePAC, political action, action committee, campaign contributed, Bill Bozarth, campaign money, State Ethics Commission, Atlanta, Sonny Perdue, Political action committee, Bev Perdue, Republican Governors Association, Lobbying, Politics, Politics of Georgia, Georgia Republican Party
Fueled by unions, PACs set record for campaign spending
Lexington :: MA :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility Union and labor committees were the top contributors, accounting for 17 of the top 20 political action committees, as measured by contributions. Labor-based committees representing firefighters, police officers, teachers, plumbers, ironworkers, retired...
Tags: political action, action committees, PAC, Lexington, Federal Election Campaign Act, Lobbying, Political action committee, Elections in the United States
Simple Economics
New York City :: NY :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility The risk of this economic crisis is that people stay isolated, hunkered down and afraid," Collins says. "What's different from the serious economic crises of the past is the much greater potential for fragmentation and isolation--because we've lived through...
Tags: Collins, collins says, political action, mutual aid, New York City, Solidarity, Democracy
Spencer Bachus: 'No More Bailouts'
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility Bachus competed with Rep. Richard Baker (R-La.) for the spot and won after arguing that he has a better working relationship with interest groups and with chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), according to the Almanac of American Politics . Prior to that time,...
Tags: Spencer Bachus, Congress, House Financial Services Committee, housing financial, wall street, political action, commercial banks, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Growth & Prosperity PAC, action committee, Birmingham, Bailout, Citigroup, Finance, Financial services, Hedge, Politics, Derivatives, United States House Committee on Financial Services, Business Finance
US softball players try sports diplomacy in Cuba
Muñoz :: Philippines | 23 days ago
Credibility Softball has been a passion for Michael Eizenberg since he was a child, but the 63-year-old has never been as excited about a game as the one played Monday on a children's ball field at a faded sports complex under Havana's warm Caribbean sun. Eizenberg...
Tags: Cuba, Congress, Public Campaign, political action, U.S, action committee, democracy political, cuba embargo, cuba democracy, Anti-Castro, Philippines, Muñoz, Eastern bloc, Havana, Gulf of Mexico, Cuba ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Fidel Castro, allnews, United States embargo against Cuba, Mario Diaz-Balart, US-Cuba Democracy PAC, Opposition to Fidel Castro, Mauricio Claver-Carone, Politics, Cuban Revolution, Tourism in Cuba, Galician people, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Bob Menendez, Economy of Cuba, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, International sanctions
Pawlenty files PAC forms
Saint Paul :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility A team of Republican consultants with experience on the presidential level will help run Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's new political action committee. Pawlenty filed paperwork Thursday with federal regulators to form the Freedom First PAC, a national...
Tags: Tim Pawlenty, AM Minnesota, Mitt Romney, political action, action committee, Canada, Saint Paul
Often in public eye, but off the radar
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility As Gov. Tim Pawlenty appears to explore a presidential run, much of what he is doing occurs out of the public eye. An intricate set of state and federal laws gives potential presidential candidates wide latitude, allowing them to avoid disclosing much...
Tags: Tim Pawlenty, political action, Minnesota, presidential run, action committee, Minneapolis
KC political action committee hit with huge fine
Jefferson City :: MO :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Ethics Commission has levied large fines against two political action committees that didn't properly report their finances. Unity Political Action Committee of St...The Kansas City Pride Democratic Club and its treasurer...
Tags: The Missouri Ethics Commission, political action, attorney general, action committee, Jefferson City
Bad weather stops Palin visit to Valdez
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Officials say bad weather has caused Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to cancel a visit to Valdez. Heavy fog surrounded the port city on Monday, preventing the governor's plane from landing. Palin was to have signed two bills in Valdez related to fisheries and...
Tags: Sarah Palin, Alaska, political action, Federal Elections Commission, action committee, gas line, committee raising, Valdez, raising nearly
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