On July 19th, 2011, Mitt Romney attended More…a dinner party for potential donors put on by the super Political Action Committee (PAC), Restore Our Future. Under the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) coordination guidelines, Romney’s presence at the fundraiser didn’t cross any boundaries, as long as he didn’t explicitly ask for
More…Since assuming the chairmanship of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee following the retaking of the lower chamber by the GOP last November, the number of Rep. Fred Upton’s top donors that are energy companies have more than doubled from the 2009-2010 donating cycle to the 2010-2011 period.
The inmate population in the United States has grown steadily over the past fifteen years, increasing by 49.6 percent, while the proportion of those prisoners in private prisons has exploded -– according to the Justice Policy Institute’s More… analysis of federal statistics; the number of people in privately-run prisons has increased
The latest attempt to push the boundaries of campaign finance law comes from the Republican Senator Mike Lee, who filed an advisory opinion request More…with the Federal Election Commission asking whether his Leadership Political Action Committee can start a second bank account, under the same PAC, which accepts independent expenditures.
An analysis of Obama’s proposed surtax on millionaires to fund his job program will be “paid by an infinitesimally small percentage of American taxpayers, and that the surtaxes themselves would constitute an infinitessimally tiny percentage of the income of the wealthy,” according to The Washington Posts‘s Greg Sargent. More…Despite this, political
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been hammered More… for using campaign funds to promote personal projects, but the real scandal may be the finance industry cash he is taking to fund these efforts, and how it influences his anti-regulation stances on finance and housing.
More…Aleshia Napier was 18 years old in 2006 when she hung herself with a bed sheet at the Broward Correctional Institution in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after being placed in solitary confinement despite her diagnosis of clinical depression and bipolar disorder.
President Obama and the Democratic National Committee flexed their fundraising muscle in the third quarter by raising a combined $70 million, according the disclosure reports. But a large amount of money, coming through so-called bundlers More…, leaves the original sources shrouded in mystery.
Under a new ruling More…, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) will allow traditional political action committees to merge with super PACs, effectively allowing unlimited corporate contributions directly to candidates.
If the 5,000 plus demonstrators that marched to the Mortgage Bankers Assocation (MBA) annual meeting in Chicago on Monday are any indication, the city has had enough of the MBA. More…
On the surface, Chicago has gone through a number of changes in the past year — a new mayor, a renamed Sears Tower and a fresh coat of paint for the coming Bankers summit. But Occupy Chicago More… and its supporters say that under the cosmetics, it’s business as
