Blogs1 - 9 of 9 recent posts for tag:"public campaign"
27
Dec
2011
CORPORATIONS ARE GREEDY PEOPLE, TOO

46 days ago by bureaucracybusters

“How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what’s intended for nine-tenths of the people to eat? The only way you’ll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain’t got no business with!” ...

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CORPORATIONS ARE GREEDY PEOPLE, TOO

46 days ago by bureaucracybusters

“How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what’s intended for nine-tenths of the people to eat? The only way you’ll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain’t got no business with!” ...

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14
Dec
2011
29 Companies That Paid Millions For Lobbying (And Didn't Pay Taxes)

59 days ago by Chris Barth

Thirty large U.S. corporations paid more money to Congressional lobbyists than they paid in taxes from 2008-2010, according to a new report from Public Campaign [1], a purportedly non-partisan corporate watchdog organization that seeks to reduce the influence of big companies in politics. The report ...

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08
Dec
2011
Noontime News Roundup – December 8, 2011

65 days ago by winterbanyan

Noontime News is a snapshot of our RSS feeds from the noon (Eastern time) hour. Corporate Tax Dodging Has Cost States More Than $42 Billion In Revenue Over The Last Three Years ThinkProgress has documented the repeated tax dodging of large corporations, some of which, like GE, have gone entire years ...

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15
Sep
2011
Subcommittee Republicans Rake in Big Bucks from Health and Insurance Industry

149 days ago by Dposorio

http://campaignmoney.org/press-room/2011/09/14/subcommittee-republicans-rake-big-bucks-health-and-insurance-industry

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19
Aug
2011
West Memphis Three freed after 18 years

176 days ago by Michelle

Thanks to a public campaign involving fans in the rock and metal communities, the West Memphis Three have been freed fro jail after being imprisoned for a crime they didn’t commit. Two of the three were saved from life in prison, while the third was saved from Death Row. In 1993, Damien Echols, Jaso ...

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04
Aug
2011
Groups: Limit lobbying of deficit committee

191 days ago

Congressional leaders haven't picked the 12 members of a powerful "super-committee" that will recommend $1.5 trillion in spending cuts to reduce the deficit, but an array of watchdog groups want to limit the influence of industry lobbyists on their work.

23
Jun
2011
Accused Boston crime boss “Whitey” Bulger arrested (Reuters)

234 days ago

Are you looking for some inside information on US News? Here’s an up-to-date report from US News experts who should know. WASHINGTON (Reuters) “ On the run for 17 years, the accused Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger and his longtime girlfriend were finally caught in California by the Federal B ...

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11
May
2011
Helping The Neediest Among Us

277 days ago

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