In a recently filed court document, a one-time business partner of Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, requests that the Federal Election Commission add Buchanan to a case that was initially filed against him and the duo’s former car dealership, Hyundai of North Jacksonville.
The Federal Election Commission agreed Thursday to investigate a complaint GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger filed last month against Fox News, according to Karger’s presidential campaign.
Though Rep. Vern Buchanan has yet to publicly comment on a watchdog group’s efforts to launch an FBI investigation into his past congressional campaigns, he has found time to sell his $4.49 million yacht, The Entrepreneur. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is now using that yacht sale to highlight the allegations More…
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (aka CREW) has filed an FBI complaint against Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, asking that the Bureau investigate Buchanan on charges of witness tampering, obstruction of justice and bribery, based largely on a deposition of one of his former business partners, Sam Kazran. #
Among Roll Call‘s list of the 50 richest members of Congress: Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota. With estimated assets of $77 million (and liabilities around $26 million), Buchanan lands at No. 10 on the list. #
In 2009, he took the More…
According to a recently filed court document, donations made to the 2006 and 2008 campaigns of Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, were indeed reimbursed by funds from a Buchanan-owned car dealership, but were not intended to be back-door contributions. #
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Politico is reporting today that U.S Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) raised about $3 million in the first three months of 2011, and also has about $1.7 million in his congressional campaign account. This morning, Paul said on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” that he’ll make a decision on another try at the More…
With her 20 minute “Story of Stuff” web-video, Annie Leonard explained some of the downside of consumerism to a lot of Americans. Now with her “Story of Citizens United” video, she explains why she and many others believe the corporate personhood extended by the 2010 Citizens United vs FEC Supreme 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…
NPR makes a pretty good case for the Commission on Hope, Growth & Opportunity, a major 501(c)(4) player in this year’s elections which not only avoids disclosing its donors to the Federal Election Commission — standard practice among Section 501 nonprofits — but has also thus far declined to More…
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