Broadcast media still dominates the world of political campaign ads, which are financed more than ever by interest groups that will play an increasing role in the 2012 presidential election, according to media reports issued this week. More…
The Los Angeles Times explores the prospects for campaign finance reform after Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) lost his re-election in November and now that more Republicans are in Congress. (At Monday’s Republican National Committee chair debate More…, when asked what the biggest mistakes of Republicans over the past ten years
Michael Isikoff of NBC News reports that undisclosed donors to American Crossroads GPS, a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization founded by Karl Rove and former Republican National Committee chair Ed Gillespie, came from a small group of private equity and hedge fund managers:
A substantial portion of Crossroads GPS’ money came More…
The groups formed by Bush White House Senior Advisor Karl Rove and former Republican National Commitee Chair Ed Gillespie — American Crossroads and its 501(c)(4) spinoff, American Crossroads GPS — have begun to draw the attention of President Obama, who called outside groups “a threat to our democracy More…”
Yesterday, when the Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the IRS against the 501(c)(4) group Crossroads GPS, alleging that it was abusing its tax-exempt status because its “primary purpose” was election related, GPS spokesman Jonathan Collegio dismissed the complaint as politically motivated:
“This is a baseless complaint, filed by More…
Two groups conceived by former Bush White House Senior Advisor Karl Rove and former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie have new independent expenditure ads opposing Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and supporting Florida candidate for U.S. Senate Marco Rubio (R). The ads appear the same day as campaign finance watchdog organizations wrote More…
The latest FEC filings from American Crossroads continue to tell a similar story: the nonprofit political spending group is funded almost entirely by billionaires. Salon did the math More… yesterday and calculated that in August the group took in approximately $2.6 million in total, and that a full $2.4 million —
