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FEC chair Cynthia Bauerly talks transparency on campaign finance with Public...
FEC chair Cynthia Bauerly speaks to a packed house at Public Citizen With a record amount of money being poured into our elections, the Federal Election Commission, the agency in charge of monitoring...
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Money and Democracy Update: Government contractors used to disclose donors,...
Stunning Statistics of the Week: $35 million: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s net worth $9.9 million: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s net worth $3.7 million: Senate Majority Leader Harry...
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Colbert’s Super PAC stealing the news cycle, plus how much money is already...
Stunning Statistics of the Week: $20 million: The amount that the political action committee Crossroads GPS, co-founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, spent on television ads against President...
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Money and Democracy Update: Under investigation, subpoenaed and spending out...
Stunning Statistics of the Week: 80: number of top fundraisers for former President George W. Bush who have donated the maximum allowed to the Romney campaign 40: Number of top Bush fundraisers who...
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Money & Democracy Update: Nationwide organizing parties, Koch database,...
Stunning Statistics of the Week: $3.2 billion: The amount one media analyst predicts will be spent on political television ads during the 2012 election cycle $2.1 billion: The amount spent on TV ads in...
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Money and Democracy Update: Jack makes a splash, 25K people demand Obama fix FEC
Stunning Statistics of the Week $10,000: The amount people had to raise to participate in a “policy roundtable” at a Washington, D.C., fundraiser for GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney this week...
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Money and Democracy Update: The super power of Super PACs
Stunning Statistics of the Week: $310 million: Amount that the three main GOP presidential contenders had raised by this point in the 2008 race $146 million: The amount that GOP presidential candidates...
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Obama is right to investigate Crossroads GPS
Public Citizen is happy to have the Obama administration join the chorus of voices calling for an investigation of Crossroads Grassroots Political Strategies (GPS). Crossroads GPS is a so-called...
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Supreme Court’s choice: plutocracy or democracy
Plutocracy or democracy; the rich or the rest of us; legalized bribery or law and order; corruption or common sense. The choice facing the U.S. Supreme Court today in McCutcheon v. Federal Election...
View ArticleBreaking: Public Citizen and The US Chamber of Commerce Agree on Something!...
The US Chamber of Commerce just published another blog post slamming an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rulemaking that could clarify the rules for nonprofits and reduce the influence of undisclosed...
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FEC chair Cynthia Bauerly talks transparency on campaign finance with Public...
FEC chair Cynthia Bauerly speaks to a packed house at Public Citizen With a record amount of money being poured into our elections, the Federal Election Commission, the agency in charge of monitoring...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Money and Democracy Update: Government contractors used to disclose donors,...
Stunning Statistics of the Week: $35 million: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s net worth $9.9 million: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s net worth $3.7 million: Senate Majority Leader Harry...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Colbert’s Super PAC stealing the news cycle, plus how much money is already...
Stunning Statistics of the Week: $20 million: The amount that the political action committee Crossroads GPS, co-founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, spent on television ads against President...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Money and Democracy Update: Under investigation, subpoenaed and spending out...
Stunning Statistics of the Week: 80: number of top fundraisers for former President George W. Bush who have donated the maximum allowed to the Romney campaign 40: Number of top Bush fundraisers who...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Money & Democracy Update: Nationwide organizing parties, Koch database,...
Stunning Statistics of the Week: $3.2 billion: The amount one media analyst predicts will be spent on political television ads during the 2012 election cycle $2.1 billion: The amount spent on TV ads in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Money and Democracy Update: Jack makes a splash, 25K people demand Obama fix FEC
Stunning Statistics of the Week $10,000: The amount people had to raise to participate in a “policy roundtable” at a Washington, D.C., fundraiser for GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney this week...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Money and Democracy Update: The super power of Super PACs
Stunning Statistics of the Week: $310 million: Amount that the three main GOP presidential contenders had raised by this point in the 2008 race $146 million: The amount that GOP presidential candidates...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obama is right to investigate Crossroads GPS
Public Citizen is happy to have the Obama administration join the chorus of voices calling for an investigation of Crossroads Grassroots Political Strategies (GPS). Crossroads GPS is a so-called...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Supreme Court’s choice: plutocracy or democracy
Plutocracy or democracy; the rich or the rest of us; legalized bribery or law and order; corruption or common sense. The choice facing the U.S. Supreme Court today in McCutcheon v. Federal Election...
View ArticleBreaking: Public Citizen and The US Chamber of Commerce Agree on Something!...
The US Chamber of Commerce just published another blog post slamming an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rulemaking that could clarify the rules for nonprofits and reduce the influence of undisclosed...
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