Via Huffington Post: “As the two leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination released their eye-popping fundraising totals for the last three months, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley worked instead on Thursday to illustrate how broken the campaign finance system is by…
Read MoreVia Huffington Post: “In a little over a month, Seattle voters will go to the polls with the opportunity to create a brand new, first-in-the-country system of publicly financed city elections. The Honest Elections Seattle ballot initiative, which is up for…
Read MoreVia New York Times: “Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised more than $24 million for his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in the last three months, a significant sum that was fueled by a torrid pace of online donations:…
Read MoreVia Bloomberg Politics: “Americans may be sharply divided on other issues, but they are united in their view of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that unleashed a torrent of political spending: They hate it. In a new Bloomberg Politics national poll,…
Read MoreVia Mayday.us: “Voters of Every Political Stripe Agree on the Need for Fundamental Reform to the Campaign Finance System We just released a new presidential poll showing which candidates’ supporters care most about reforming how elections are funded. We found…
Read MoreVia Politico: “One of the three super PACs supporting Rand Paul’s presidential campaign has stopped raising money, dealing a damaging blow to an already cash-starved campaign. In a Tuesday telephone interview, Ed Crane, who oversees the group, PurplePAC, accused Paul…
Read MoreVia Huffington Post: “A district court judge on Monday dismissed four corruption charges against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and his donor Salomon Melgen, but denied motions to toss out other charges including, notably, the senator’s solicitation of contributions for a…
Read MoreVia The Detroit Free Press: “In 2013, Gov. Rick Snyder vowed to shut down a nonprofit that was collecting funds from donors whose names were never made public. Instead, the governor said, he’d launch a new nonprofit with a transparent donor…
Read MoreVia The New York Times: “Before the first Republican presidential debate in August, Julian H. Gingold coached Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin on Chinese currency manipulation and the nuances of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Mr. Gingold, who worked…
Read MoreVia CNN: “Ben Carson’s presidential campaign says it’s close to having raised $20 million in the traditionally slow summer fundraising quarter, a figure that would be the largest announced haul of any Republican so far this cycle and give the…
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