It looks like the left-wing independent spending infrastructure, long moribund, is starting to show its first signs of new life. According to The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, Media Matters founder David Brock is in the planning stages of forming a new group designed to counter the successful network of More…
With thousands of votes still to be tallied, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) has won the first political campaign of his life — and it was a political battle for the history books. He beat back a serious Democratic Party primary challenge and emerged victorious in the general election this morning More…
There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the announcement made by American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS — the sister groups that Republican strategists Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie helped conceive — that they will continue advertising against Democrats after the elections when Congress returns and debates over extending the Bush-era More…
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…
Outside political groups are forbidden from coordinating their ad campaigns with the political candidates or parties they support, but they’re perfectly free to coordinate their activities with one another. And with enough cash pouring into a nexus of conservative groups for many in the media to term it the “shadow More…
The League of Conservation Voters released a new web video today mocking Republican Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck’s statements on climate change. In the video, the environmental group shows a spoof version of Buck’s Facebook page, complete with a video of him saying, “I don’t think man-made cause is More…
When Obama reprimanded groups like Crossroads GPS and the Chamber of Commerce for soliciting secret funds to fuel GOP attack ads, Karl Rove bragged on Fox News, “The president, by attacking American Crossroads, has helped drive people to our website and has helped to raise the amount of money that we More…
Karl Rove gets all the attention, but Politico argues that the guy who’s really pulling the strings behind the Republican-boosting outside spending effort is a little-known Republican operative named Carl Forti:
Forti has played a critical role in shaping the ad campaigns of two of the biggest-spending outside groups
Mudslinging about undisclosed campaign donors and the potential for foreign interference reached a new pitch yesterday in an already surprisingly heated national debate about campaign finance.
Piling on to the GOP pushback against requests for the IRS to investigate nonprofit groups like Crossroads GPS, Karl Rove spoke on the Fox News Channel’s Your World with Neil Cavuto:
KARL ROVE, FMR. BUSH DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF: Crossroads GPS is a 501(c)(4) with lots of lawyers telling its leadership what they
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