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Tag: Campaign Finance Reform
The White House/Pete Souza
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By Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
When President Obama told supporters that he would morph his campaign into a new nonprofit that would accept unlimited corporate donations, the announcement set off a familiar round of griping from campaign finance reformers.
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
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Flickr/DoubleSpeak Media
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By Kim Barker, ProPublica —
Democratic incumbent Jon Tester is trying to keep his seat in a hotly contested race that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Romney surrogate playing the race card and an interesting Electoral College proposal that could reshape the way presidential candidates campaign.
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
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Flickr/ 401(K) 2012
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Demonstrators recently took to the streets of Washington, D.C., to protest activities of the nonprofit business lobbying group, which one called “the poster child for Citizens United.”
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
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The former Federal Election Commission chairman sits down with the “Moyers & Company” host to discuss the November ballot, the need to reform the campaign finance system and his well-known appearances on “The Colbert Report.”
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an update on the messy voter purge in Florida and a “death panel” revival of sorts.
Posted on Jun 26, 2012
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Talk Radio News Service
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Will Citizens United stand the test of time? John Paul Stevens, the former Supreme Court justice who led the dissent in the court’s highly controversial decision that eased restrictions on corporate donations in political campaigns, thinks the answer is “no.”
Posted on Jun 4, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — “The president is wrong.” So says one of the newly appointed co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
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Wikimedia Commons/April Sikorski
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By Stuart Whatley — As it is an election year amidst the Great Recession, talk of the American plutocracy is very much in vogue. But to label the situation as unique belies centuries of history.
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AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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The ridiculous Supreme Court decision to let corporations spend whatever they want on behalf of political candidates just got more ridiculous: Lawyers say that under the ruling there’s a loophole that would allow companies to do so anonymously.
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AP / Alex Brandon
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In his weekly radio address, President Obama showed his dismay at the Supreme Court’s decision to remove corporate campaign finance limits, warning of a pending deluge of special interest money into our democracy—a subject he knows quite well as he continues to fight for health care reform.
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As the country awaits a key Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance law, several recent lower-court decisions have rolled back longstanding restrictions on political ad spending, a possible boost for Republicans in this election year.
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Benghazi: Dissecting Congressional Follies, Media Coverage and ‘Cover-Up’ Charges
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