The Center for Responsive Politics revealed Thursday that corporate campaign spending has skyrocketed since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission decision in January 2010. The report comes at the same time as the first major state-level challenge to the controversial ruling.
Momentum is building for Democrats to try one last time to pass a version of the DISCLOSE Act once Congress resumes, this time without the extraneous (and some say, onerous) prohibitions on campaign spending by federal contractors or companies with partial foreign-ownership. The New York Times and Politico More…
Big corporations have been portrayed as the villains in the story of this year’s explosion in campaign spending, unloading vast sums of money to elect candidates who will then go to Washington to better their bottom line. Turns out a lot of businesses, however, feel like they’re the ones More…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is playing the role of unsuspecting victim in the face of attacks from Democrats over the undisclosed nature of its campaign spending, but the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein argues that it really shouldn’t be at all surprised:
When the business lobby was arguing
Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s GOP primary victory might be old news, but her campaign’s financial improprieties dredged up during the primary contest continue to haunt her candidacy going forward. Melanie Sloan, executive director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, says that even cursory reviews of O’Donnell’s More…
McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was buoyant in his assessment of the state of the race as it enters its final weekend.
In a McCain campaign conference call today, Davis said he was “jazzed up” and assured reporters that “we are witnessing, I believe, probably one of the greatest comebacks More…
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