4 hours ago by Angela Caputo

The Scott Lee Cohen debacle brought with it a number of of political lessons for Illinois Democrats. It exposed the need for a stronger party chairman and shed light on how ineffectively party leaders vet candidates. It also should remind Illinois citizens of the need to further strengthen campaign ...

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5 hours ago by Megan Carpentier

If you read the stories in The Wall Street Journal last week or The New York Times this week about campaign contributions from financial companies, you might have the impression that financial PACs and executives are shifting their money from Democrats to Republicans en masse over bonus restrictions ...

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5 hours ago by Peregrin Wood

At first glance, H.R. 4617, the Separate Taxpayer Dollars from the Election Process Act, looks like a really tough blow to Wall Street. The bill, introduced to the House of Representatives by Minnesota Democrat Tim Walz, would require companies that got TARP bailout money to keep that money separate ...

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6 hours ago by David Damron

No one in the media wants to tell this story, but there’s a populist Democrat from Orlando who beat out all the other members of Congress in fund raising in the last reporting period. Who is this money-man no media outlet will write about: U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson. And who is going to uncover this $86 ...

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8 hours ago by seeineye

by Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski On January 21, the U.S. Supreme Court empowered ordinary Americans to speak out on an equal footing with millionaires and the media in U.S. elections. Threatened by people being able to freely speak their minds, the president of the United States deceived the Ameri ...

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9 hours ago by Megan Carpentier

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, is under fire in The Wall Street Journal today for a poorly written letter drafted by a legislative assistant and likely signed by the office auto-pen. In his letter to the Fed July 21, Mr. Menendez said there wa ...

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9 hours ago by John Frank

Quietly last summer, incoming legislative leaders Sen. Mike Haridopolos and Rep. Dean Cannon came to Attorney General Bill McCollum with concerns about how the party was raising and spending money. McCollum supported a solution: a separate bank account to collect campaign contributions that required ...

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9 hours ago by Hugh Nuze

For Immediate Release: February 9, 2010 Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio Launches National Fundraising Appeal For J.D. Hayworth’s U.S. Senate Campaign PHOENIX, ARIZONA. FEBRUARY 9, 2010. One national leader in the fight against illegal immigration has launched a fundraising appeal to help another. ...

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11 hours ago by John Stossel

However well-intended, labyrinth campaign-finance laws mostly serve incumbents and those special interests best able to navigate the paperwork. In today's Wall Street Journal, the Manhattan Institute's James Copland points out that the trial lawyers have benefited most : Contribution limits favor th ...

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14 hours ago by Mike

It is interesting how liberals feel it is okay for George Soros to have as much influence as he has, but if a group of everyday Americans ban together and form a non-profit corporation to make their voices heard, they feel the Government should be able to silence them.

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