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Money and Democracy Update: People take to the streets, Citizens United...
Stunning Statistics of the Week: $27.5 million: The amount that Super PACs have spent to influence the 2012 presidential election $8.1 million: The amount Restore Our Future, the Super PAC backing GOP...
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Money and Democracy Update: Jack makes a splash, 25K people demand Obama fix FEC
Stunning Statistics of the Week $10,000: The amount people had to raise to participate in a “policy roundtable” at a Washington, D.C., fundraiser for GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney this week...
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Money and Democracy Update: Drug money abounds, citizens push for ethics
Stunning Statistics of the Week $9.4 million: Amount the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) gave to nonprofit groups in 2010, including some that bought ads to influence the...
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Money and Democracy Update: Super Tuesday meant Super Momentum
Stunning Statistics of the Week $36,380: The amount that GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney and the Super PAC supporting him spent on advertising per delegate won on Super Tuesday In Vermont, Super...
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Money and Democracy Update: The super power of Super PACs
Stunning Statistics of the Week: $310 million: Amount that the three main GOP presidential contenders had raised by this point in the 2008 race $146 million: The amount that GOP presidential candidates...
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Voter Suppression & Corporate Election Cash: Two Sides of the Same Coin
By Dalvin Butler Billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch are looking to call the shots in the 2012 elections. The Koch brothers are using their vast financial resources to push...
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Setting it Straight: Hard-Hitting Campaign Facts Given at Senate Hearing
By Neil Heckman Who funds our elections these days? If you go by the numbers, once again, it’s the 1 percent. Photo By Calvin Sloan At a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this past Tuesday...
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Good news and bad news: The state of corporate reform
There’s good news and bad news in the campaign finance world. Here’s the bad news. Since January 2010 we’ve been living with the consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United vs....
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USA Today overlooks dark money in corporate spending story
Flickr photo via Truthout.org In USA Today, the recent story “Mystery company the largest corporate donor of 2012,” missed a major part of the crisis in our elections following the Supreme Court’s...
View ArticleMultiplying Risks by Twenty-Four: Absurd Implications of a Bad McCutcheon Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court could soon issue its decision in Shaun McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, a case that challenges aggregate contribution limits to federal candidates, political parties,...
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