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Citizen Action Hopes IDC Pushes For Public Campaigns

Source: Citizen Action NY, Dec 6 2012, 3:21pm CST

Advocacy groups are eager to see next month what campaign finance reform might actually look like under the IDC-GOP Senate coalition. So far, the five-member Independent Democratic Conference hasn’t really drilled down into what a ...

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15 hours ago

FBI reportedly joins Bachmann campaign finance probe

Source: Democratic Underground  |   May 19 2013, 4:55pm CDT

Source: Salon The agency is investigating alleged violations by Bachmann's 2012 presidential campaign The FBI is reportedly looking into allegations that Michele BachmannÂs 2012 presidential campaign committed ...

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16 hours ago

Skelos is wrong; public campaign funding will help N.Y.

Source: Albany Times-Union  |   May 19 2013, 4:33pm CDT

State Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos' May 13 Perspective article, "A recipe for political corruption") brings together all opponents' attacks on public campaign financing, no matter how they stretch the tru ...

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23 weeks ago


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"Let’s tell Senator Klein that Upstate New York understands that publicly financed elections are the only way we’ll finally limit the influence of big money in campaigns ... We know that it’ll only cost $2 per New Yorker, and that’s a small price compared to the hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars that are handed out every year in sweetheart deals for CEO campaign contributors."


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16 hours ago

Letter: Public financing fuels corruption

Source: Albany Times-Union  |   May 19 2013, 4:32pm CDT

Anyone who believes, as your editorial ("Your Senate, your money," May 10) suggests, that public financing of campaigns is a "public investment in democracy," should look at the unholy trinity of New York City Democr ...

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16 hours ago

GOP senators stave off primary foes

Source: The Politico  |   May 19 2013, 4:10pm CDT

Lamar Alexander has an inventive way of fending off potential primary foes, one that could be a model for GOP incumbents running in 2014. Drop by their house for iced tea. Continue Reading Just ask Monty Lankford, who threatened to c ...

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1 day ago

Elections and campaign finance bills draw bipartisan support

Source: MPR | Minnesota Public Radio  |   May 18 2013, 10:30pm CDT

The Minnesota House and Senate appear to have met Gov. Dayton's demand that any changes to election law and campaign finance law have broad bipartisan support. A conference committee on campaign finance approved a measure that would increase the ...

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2 days ago

Newark Mayor Cory Booker discloses finances to the public

Source: NorthJersey.com  |   May 17 2013, 4:13pm CDT

Newark Mayor Cory Booker made more than $1.3 million since 2008 giving 90 speeches to colleges, companies and non-profits in 32 states, his campaign for U.S. Senate revealed Friday. The Democratic mayor also disclosed he has more than $100,000 in his ch ...

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3 days ago

GOP Senate hopeful Gabriel Gomez launches television ad

Source: Boston Herald  |   May 17 2013, 3:10am CDT

BOSTON — Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Gabriel Gomez is planning to release the first television ad of his campaign against Democrat Edward Markey. Gomez introduces himself in Spanish in the 30-second ad and talks about the goal he had growin ...

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3 days ago

Hatch pushes for expanded probe into IRS actions

Source: Standard-Examiner  |   May 17 2013, 12:54am CDT

WASHINGTON — Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on Thursday called for an expanded probe into the Internal Revenue Service, asking that the investigation focus on information released on nine conservative groups, including one that contributed as much as $570,000 ...

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3 days ago

Health law repeal votes offer important campaign trail symbol for some Republicans

Source: News-Medical.net  |   May 17 2013, 12:51am CDT

Many GOP lawmakers see today's scheduled vote to repeal the health law as important to their campaign trail messaging. The Washington Post: Voting To Repeal, Over And Over Since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2011, th ...

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