GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, who has been called “weak” by immigration-enforcement supporters, has picked up the support of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, notorious for his immigration-detention measures and his birther conspiracy theories.
The Phoenix New Times reports:
According to multiple national news outlets, Arpaio
The Americans for Prosperity Foundation launched a new higher education reform initiative, “Rock the Ivory Tower,” aimed at making college education “more accessible, affordable and transparent for college students,” the group said Tuesday.
In a video, one student points out that the average college graduate today carries a student More…
Despite accepting nearly a quarter-million dollars from PACs since the November election, Texas’ three newest GOP congressmen had some $2 million in combined campaign debt at the end of 2010, according to Federal Election Commission data. Meanwhile, U.S. Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) and Ron Paul (R-Clute) are at the More…
In the wake of Dick Wadhams’ exit from GOP leadership, a shootout is erupting over the soul of the state Republican Party.
Wadhams this week said he is done with the political sniping – particularly from Tea Party and 9-12 sectors – and is not seeking a third term More…
Conventional wisdom says the lame-duck session of Congress will not produce any legislation of consequence. Regardless, speakers and activists at an Americans for Prosperity-organized protest outside the U.S. Capitol railed Monday against the prospect of the outgoing Democratic Congress trying to pass anything.
“It’s about trust but verify,” Dallas Woodhouse, More…
While the Tea Party-backing Americans for Prosperity and the group’s secretive billionaire founder, David Koch, have regularly made headlines this election cycle for their big outlays, the quintessential boogeyman among right-wing folks, George Soros, who donated heavily to Democrats during the last few election cycles, has been largely sitting More…
After a spate of requests by Democrats and campaign finance groups for an IRS investigation of a number of section 501(c) organizations accused of abusing their status by engaging primarily in political advocacy, some Senate Republicans are pushing back:
Such a review threatens to “chill the legitimate exercise of
The issue of foreign money finding its way into U.S. elections is always sure to get people’s blood boiling. When President Obama suggested that Americans for Prosperity — a 501(c)(4) group that sponsors Tea Party rallies but declines to disclose its individual donors — might be receiving foreign funding in More…
All those stories about tax-exempt organizations skirting election law seem to be finally getting some attention up on Capitol Hill. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) announced today that he has sent a letter to the IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman asking for a thorough investigation into the use More…
The Nevada Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission on Wednesday against the state’s Senate GOP candidate Sharron Angle and her onetime primary competitor Danny Tarkanian. The complaint alleges that Tarkanian violated FEC rules by campaigning for Angle and running a political committee against Senate Majority More…
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