During a meeting of the Republican Governors Association in Orlando this week, Frank Luntz, one of the most well known political communications strategist in the country, talked to GOPers about how they could do a better job talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Earlier today, we reported that Merck, the manufacturer of the human papillomavirus vaccine that Gov. Rick Perry attempted to mandate for Texas girls in 2007, has given more than the $5,000 Perry said it had given him Monday night.
Potential presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty scored a coup yesterday when he announced that he has signed on Nick Ayers to be his campaign manager. Ayers, a deeply religious 28-year old, is the former head of the Republican Governors Association, a group that funneled money into Minnesota’s Future to run negative More…
News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, gave a cool $1 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this summer, according to Politico’s Ben Smith. When earlier reports revealed that the company, owned by Rupert Murdoch, had donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, it drew heavy More…
Following up on reports that the nonprofit group, Americans for Job Security, has been avoiding the donor disclosure requirements on its “independent expenditure” filings to the FEC, the New York Times has written a bombshell of a piece that details the group’s numerous financial improprieties. AJS, it turns More…
Time’s Michael Crowley has published a good overview of the current independent expenditure landscape heading into midterm elections. It covers mostly trodden ground, but in a supremely readable style that discloses a few nuggets of wisdom as well.
Politico has a long article today on Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who runs the Republican Governors Association (RGA), and how he is, well, powerful. The article points out that while governors’ races typically aren’t considered as sexy as the race for control of Congress, Barbour is playing a crucial More…
I’m a little late, but the Republican Governors Association (RGA) was the beneficiary of some big time contributions the other month — one from News Corp., the parent company for a number of media companies, including Fox News and the New York Post, and the other from libertarian billionaire More…
After days of speculation about his mysterious disappearance, Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) just admitted to an extramarital affair and resigned as the chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
In a drawn-out press conference that began with a long series of apologies and repeated references to his friend Tom Davis, Sanford More…
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