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#CampaignFinance
New watchdog report on CORY BOOKER FOR SENATE (C00540500): big receipts show repeated joint fundraising transfers, while the public-facing donor details look thin in conduit reporting views. On the spending side, media/advertising dominates and one vendor takes the largest share. Read more: https://darkmoneytracker.com/reports.html #FEC #CampaignFinance
Trump Super PAC Raised More Than $100 Million in Recent Months
How to Cut Campaign Financing
Many repairpeople of western democracy want campaign finance reform.
I have a rather unique idea on this topic:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=458
'Dark Money' attack on Lt. Gov. Burt Jones accuses him of profiting off taxpayers
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"Anonymous, baseless attack ads are what cowards hide behind when they can't win on ideas," Jones said through a spokesperson.
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They probably missed the irony of the statement.
#USPol #USPolitics #Georgia #DarkMoney #ElectionIntegrity #CampaignFinance #GOP #BurtJones #EthicsCommission
Duncan Banner: Oklahoma Watch: Oklahoma’s campaign finance database is back online. “The Oklahoma Ethics Commission voted unanimously Friday to restore public access to the state’s online campaign finance database and seek legal action against a software developer that failed to deliver on a revamped system.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/25/oklahoma-watch-oklahomas-campaign-finance-database-is-back-online-duncan-banner/
Our politicians have truly made a pact with the Devil. One watches them spend more and more of their time and energy grubbing, coaxing, flattering, and whoring for money. Terrified of being cut off from the mother’s milk, they stand like morons in the rising sea of contempt that threatens to drown the whole system. Then they wonder why no one likes them anymore.
Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1998-01), “Introduction,” You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You (1998)
More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/80992/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #campaignfinance #campaign spending #fundraising #money #politicians #corruption
Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle
The Political Donor
A 1-Act Play
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=20&id=228
Contemporary U.S. (marginally Canadian) politics co-opted by wealth / corporations / far-right influencers / imbeciles
Political postitioning (Dem / GOP | lesser extent Liberals / Conservative Party) window-dressing
Underlying co-option / non-democratic principles align
Hence the observed democratic backsliding, lack of substantive change.
Wealth and corporations / capitalists shape and capture policy-making.
#capitalism #CampaignFinance #DarkMoney #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice
AOC splurged nearly $50K on pricey hotel stays, dining and renting Puerto Rico concert venue where Bad Bunny performed
WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-C…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #AlexandriaOcasio-Cortez #BadBunny #CampaignFinance #democrats #federalelectioncommission #Politics #PuertoRico #ushouseofrepresentatives #usnews
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2422653/aoc-splurged-nearly-50k-on-pricey-hotel-stays-dining-and-renting-puerto-rico-concert-venue-where-bad-bunny-performed/
Hanging over the hearing was the legacy of #SCOTUS’ wave of rulings that have pared back #CampaignFinance restrictions over the years, including the 2010 #CitizensUnited v. FEC decision, which paved the way for unlimited independent expenditures by outside groups known as #superPACs.
#law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #Trump #ElectionInterference #FederalistSociety #HeritageFoundation #judiciary #CitizensUnited #DarkMoney
#SCOTUS’ conservative majority has long been skeptical of #CampaignFinance restrictions on “free speech” grounds, & #Republicans have often brought challenges against them. Some of those justices expressed skepticism about the limits during Tuesday's argument, while liberal justices defended them.
#law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #Trump #ElectionInterference #FederalistSociety #HeritageFoundation #judiciary #CitizensUnited #DarkMoney
#SCOTUS justices on Tuesday probed the legality of longstanding #CampaignFinance restrictions challenged by VP #JDVance that limit how much national party committees can spend in coordination with individual candidates.
It is unclear exactly how the court will rule. One lawyer defending the limits argued that the case should be dismissed as moot because of Vance's ongoing reluctance to reveal whether he will run for office in 2028.
This is beyond #activism from the blatantly #PartisanCourt, this is #ElectionInterference. Wasn’t #CitizensUnited enough?
#SCOTUS probes #CampaignFinance limits challenged by #JDVance
#SupremeCourt appears likely to issue a ruling notwithstanding arguments that the case is moot because of Vance's equivocation about 2028.
#law #ActivistCourt #Trump #FederalistSociety #HeritageFoundation #judiciary
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/jd-vance-decision-2028-presidential-run-supreme-court-campaign-finance-rcna247619
Justice Sotomayor warns that a dangerous new era in campaign finance is upon us. She argued against removing limits on coordinated party spending in a pivotal Supreme Court case, fearing it will amplify corruption and highlighted massive donor sums for Trump and Biden. Read the full analysis: https://www.alternet.org/msn/campaign-finance/ #CampaignFinance #SCOTUS #Democracy
Supreme Court Is Asked to Take Another Ax to Campaign Finance Limits
Louisiana ethics board fines Congressman Cleo Fields for missing campaign report
The state ethics board fined Congressman Cleo Fields for not submitting a report documenting the remaining funds and debts in a decades-old campaign account.What Tennessee Revealed About the G.O.P.’s Trump Trap in the Midterms
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