Tag: campaign finance

The year in campaign finance had highs and lows (mostly lows).

The Trump campaign and representatives of the firms had not responded to request for comment.

“HR 1 restores the people’s faith that government works for the public interest, the people’s interest, not the special interest.”

It will restore public faith in our government. It will mark a major step towards fixing what's broken in Washington."

This report analyzed coverage of campaign finance reform on Sunday morning talk shows and four nightly news programs.

California voters will be able to vote for overturning Citizens United.

There was a new category of staffing added to Big Money in politics. Campaigns are now hiring “donor maintenance managers” as personal concierges to millionaire supporters—another example of plutocratic corruption of our democratic elections.

Presidential candidate Scott Walker wants you to think he cares about people like you, so he is inviting people to sit down and talk to him face-to-face—it only costs $1 million. It's time we end this corrupt mockery of our electoral democracy.

"Doug Hughes’ gyrocopter stunt was no flight of fancy." It seems the majority of Americans are behind his bold “very special delivery” through the heart of our nation’s most restricted airspace in an effort to shake up and shape up Congress.

Big money is threatening the Democratic party by saying that major campaign donations are dependent on “a friendlier attitude toward the banks.” This just shows what little respect banks actually have.