Posted in Campaign Finance, Congress on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
From Craig Holman @ Watchdog Blog: In a major victory for those who believe in free and fair elections, Hans von Spakovsky – a Republican nominee for commissioner on the nation’s elections agency – has withdrawn his nomination. Von Spakovsky’s nomination has been so contentious and volatile that it shut down the Federal Election Commission [...]
Posted in Campaign Finance, Congress on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s an interesting breakdown on the FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) site of how the herd mentality of the media seems to have a double standard when it comes to the presidential candidates and their views on public financing of the general election. While Public Citizen is non-partisan, we do feel strongly about public [...]
Posted in Campaign Finance, Congress on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
This week at Public Citizen, we’re standing up for fair elections. The amount of money being spent in the presidential campaigns has become obscene. It’s time that we brought full public financing to elections to even the playing field and lessen the influence of wealthy special interests. Learn more about what you can do on [...]
Posted in Campaign Finance on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
As the election season heats up, candidates begin looking toward the general election. More specifically, they must decide how they want to finance it. As Jeff Zeleny and Michael Luo reported in today’s New York Times, both Barrack Obama and John McCain have flirted with the idea of using public financing to pay for their [...]
Posted in Campaign Finance, Congress, Ethics, Lobbying on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
It seems that so far this election cycle, there are already more lobbyists raising cash for candidates than in the entire 2004 campaign. That number spiked last night after some of Sen. John McCain’s lobbyist friends threw a fundraiser for the Arizona Republican over at Charlie Palmer Steak, near the Capitol.
Posted in Campaign Finance, Lobbying on January 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Mitt Romney, who is fond of painting himself as a D.C. outsider, is finding it hard to have his cake and eat it, too. He got into it the other day with Associated Press reporter Glen Johnson during a South Carolina photo-op over the question of his ties to lobbyists. Mitt insists he is running [...]
Posted in Campaign Finance on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
From Taylor Lincoln @ Watchdog Blog: Public Citizen today sent letters to the seven major presidential candidates who have yet to provide any insight into how much their top fundraisers have raised. The letters asked the candidates to promptly disclose the names of bundlers who have brought in at least $100,000. The letters note that [...]
Posted in Campaign Finance, Congress on January 7, 2008 | No Comments »
The Press-Register in Mobile, Ala. tapped into Public Citizen’s campaign finance data bank to show the role of the state’s fundraisers in the presidential campaign. Sean Reilly’s story, “Bama bundlers pull in funding,” found there were at least 24 campaign “bundlers” who hailed from Alabama.
Posted in Campaign Finance, Congress on January 2, 2008 | No Comments »
The good people of Iowa and New Hampshire can thank corporate America for making sure their airwaves and mailboxes were jammed this week with messages from the presidential candidates.
When it comes to raising money for their campaigns, presidential candidates rely heavily on “bundlers,” a chummy group of fundraisers who this campaign season have raised untold [...]
Posted in Campaign Finance, Congress on January 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Remember back when Sen. John McCain was the voice in the wilderness against special interests and their political contributions? That was then, this is now. Jeffrey H. Bimbaum and John Solomon write about how times have changed for McCain in “McCain’s Unlikely Ties to K Street” in today’s Washington Post.
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