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DCCC targets Steve King with radio ad campaign

By | 11.09.11 | 10:28 am | More from The Iowa Independent

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Kiron) with a radio ad campaign that began airing in Iowa’s newly-drawn 4th Congressional District on Nov. 7.

DCCC will target Vern Buchanan

By | 11.04.11 | 3:45 pm | More from The Florida Independent

On Monday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will unveil its latest in a series of ads targeting House Republicans — one of whom is Florida’s own Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota.

VIDEO: DCCC chair on key Florida congressional races

By | 10.20.11 | 12:32 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel sat down with the St. Petersburg Times yesterday to discuss the Democratic fight to take back the House in 2012. Israel says the DCCC has “six prime targets” in the state of Florida: David Rivera, Allen West, Dan Webster, C.W. Bill

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Two Democrats Lose Anti-Illegal Immigration Endorsements

By | 10.27.10 | 10:07 am

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, or ALIPAC, rescinded two of its endorsements to Democrats yesterday, claiming their Republican challengers better represent the group’s anti-illegal immigration, pro-enforcement stances. Reps. Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.) and Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) were two of the six Democrats backed by the group, which mostly endorses Republicans. Both More…

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As outside money flows in, party committees lose influence

By | 10.26.10 | 6:00 am

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, many groups, from independent political action committees to the Republican National Committee, decided to test the waters and file cases against the Federal Elections Commission arguing that they, too, should enjoy the ability to solicit unlimited donations for spending on More…

Everyone Is Violating FEC Rules!

By | 10.21.10 | 4:56 pm

It’s less than two weeks until election day, which means the time for levying complaints with the Federal Election Commission against political opponents is well underway.

First off, Alaska GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller is accusing Alaskans Standing Together, a group that’s poured nearly $600,000 into attacking him and More…

Anti-Illegal Immigration Group Denies Ties to White Supremacists, Nazis

By | 10.19.10 | 3:36 pm

It may be a bad time to be endorsed by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, or ALIPAC. The group is once again being accused of ties to white supremacist groups and Nazism, this time by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The DCCC released a statement Monday alleging that More…

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Red to Blue: Sowers Tries to Oust Republican in Rural Missouri District

By | 10.04.10 | 4:32 am

Born and raised in Missouri’s conservative, rural eighth district, Tommy Sowers served in the Army as a Ranger and a Green Beret, and then as a professor at West Point. Now the unorthodox Democrat — a critic of the bank bailouts and President Obama’s troop surge in Afghanistan — is More…

GOP-Allied Groups Outspending Democratic Counterparts 6 to 1

By | 09.28.10 | 10:42 am

As of this point, ad spending by GOP allied groups is outpacing the spending of Democrat aligned ones by a ratio of about 6 to 1:

Helped by looser fundraising rules, about two dozen organizations intended to benefit Republicans are active this fall in House and Senate races; fewer than

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The Timing of the DISCLOSE Act Vote

By | 09.22.10 | 9:42 am

Perhaps not as ironic as Politico’s Ben Smith makes it out to be, but Senate Democrats will vote Thursday on the DISCLOSE Act because a number of them will be busy at a big fundraiser in New York today: