Donor profile: Robert Rowling
Ranking: 6Total contributions to super PACs: $4.1 million*$4 million to American Crossroads (pro-Republican)$100,000 to Restore Our Future (pro-Mitt Romney)$35,000 to Texas Conservatives Fund...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: GOP nonprofits continue attacks on Senate Dems
The conservative nonprofit Americans for Prosperity on Wednesday announced a $2.7 million ad buy that will target Democrats in five key Senate races across the country.The targets are Rep. Tammy...
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DHS employee convictions since 2004
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View ArticleDonor profile: Robert Mercer
Ranking: 9Total contributions to super PACs (includes family members), $3.2 million*$1 million to American Crossroads (pro-Republican)$1 million to Restore Our Future, Inc. pro-Mitt Romney)$615,000 to...
View ArticleDrugs, guns and child porn at Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security is the first line of defense against threats to Americans, entrusted with guarding the borders, protecting the skies and cracking down on potential terrorist...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: Super PAC ad compares Mack to Charlie Sheen
"Tiger Blood” is the name of a new ad from a Democratic super PAC, Majority PAC, targeting Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla., a reference to the always-entertaining Charlie Sheen’s explanation for his ability...
View ArticleBailed-out banks, Freddie Mac, AIG gave $6 million to 2008 conventions
The Republican nominating convention that kicks off Monday in Tampa (weather permitting), has been funded by tens of millions of dollars in corporate contributions, the exact source of which won’t be...
View ArticleManipulating Medicare in the election season
Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential nominee has vaulted Medicare to the top tier of election issues, thanks to Ryan's proposal that the entitlement program be converted...
View ArticleOPINION: Physicians' group will barnstorm conventions with truth-telling on...
As the Republican convention gets underway today in Tampa, we can expect to hear the politicians and delegates gathered there — including GOP nominee Mitt Romney — rail against “Obamacare”, insisting...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: GOP not giving up on Maine Senate race
Republicans are trying to peel away support from popular former Gov. Angus King, an independent, who is favored to win a U.S. Senate seat made more competitive by the retirement of senior Republican...
View ArticleRomney balancing act on undocumented youth getting harder
Undocumented youths 15 to 30 years old certainly can’t vote. But they are a large group — estimated at 800,000 to 1.7 million — that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney doesn’t think he can...
View ArticleArizona primary latest example of Club for Growth's clout
As Republicans have battled for the soul of their party in primaries across the country, the deep-pocketed, anti-tax Club for Growth has proved itself a force to be reckoned with.If heavily favored...
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U.S. Arms Agreements, 2004-2011
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View ArticleU.S. sets record arms sales in 2011
2011 was a very good year for U.S. arms sales, with more than triple the business from the year before. According to a new report to Congress, worldwide sales of U.S. weapons last year added up to...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: Obama's abortion stance in Illinois statehouse raised
An anti-abortion group released an ad featuring an “abortion survivor” accusing then-Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama of voting to “deny basic, constitutional protections for babies born alive from an...
View ArticleGeorgia's ethics commission: A sad tale of dysfunctional state government
Perhaps no state illustrates the political perils of ethics enforcement better than Georgia, where the ethics commission has been the nexus of more infighting, vitriol and litigation than a Univision...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: NRA goes after Democrats in contested Senate races
Until recently, the National Rifle Association’s primary involvement in the 2012 election has been limited to renting booths at state fairs and circulating flyers and bumper stickers, plus the...
View ArticleGOP platform at odds with public on defense spending
In May, the Center for Public Integrity and the Stimson Center unveiled the results of a major poll on defense spending. Our poll found wide consensus among the public and across party lines that the...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: DCCC runs ads in heartland House districts
New ads in Illinois and Wisconsin mark what the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says is its first foray into those states with independent television advertising, Federal Election...
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