Four affiliated super PACs supporting the presidential bid of Ted Cruz reported a fundraising haul of $37.8 million — a significant haul that puts the conservative Texas senator in the top fundraising tier. The bulk of the money comes from seven individual donors.Source: Ted Cruz super PACs rake in $38 million...
The flagship Democratic super PACs in House and Senate races have raised $3.5 million this year, according to their Federal Election Commission reports, giving them a combined $2.7 million in cash on hand after expenses — a little below what the groups had in the bank two years ago.Source: House and Senate Dem super PACs raise $3.5 million...
There’s Jeb, and then there’s everybody else. It came as no surprise that Jeb Bush is the uncontested Sultan of Super PACs with his independent expenditure arm, Right to Rise, pulling in a jaw-dropping $103 million during its inaugural reporting period, more than double its closest competitor.Source: Super Pac Friday: Five takeaways...
In a shocking slam on political Super PACs, the Democratic chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission this week charged that "over 90 percent" spend their millions raised by white men helping only white men.Source: Shock charge: FEC chair says Super PACs only help white men...
[Image courtesy of FVAP] It’s that time of year when election data is seemingly everywhere – and the latest installment is from the DoD’s Federal Voting Assistance Program, which yesterday released its latest report to Congress about voting Americans around the world under the Uniformed andSource: FVAP Releases 2014 Post-Election Report to Congress...
At the start of his career, not long after he helped Richard Nixon win the 1968 election, Roger Ailes boasted to a reporter that television would one day replace the political party as the most powerful force in American politics.Source: The Fox News GOP Debate Could Draw the Biggest Audience in Cable News History — and Roger Ailes Is Making...
Pursuing America’s Greatness is a PAC that wants to make independent expenditures in support of Mike Huckabee’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.Source: PAC Supporting Mike Huckabee Independently Sues FEC to Gain Ability to Use Huckabee’s Name for its Facebook Page...
The use of economic resources to support election campaigns is an essential ingredient of democratic competition. Often viewed as a malady of democracy, campaign finance is actually part of the normal workings of democratic life.Source: The cost of democracy: Campaign finance regulation in Latin America...
Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU. As soon as the Court decided to hear Evenwel, a barely suppressed anger emerged in many quarters, on grounds of both process and substance.Source: Symposium: Misguided hysteria over Evenwel v. Abbott...
As Bob Conner reported for IVN in 2014, New Jersey’s independents spent approximately $100 million to pay for primaries in which they could not vote between 2000 and 2013. The obvious question is, how did this come to be? How did taxpayers come to subsidize party primaries?Source: The Story Behind Why You Have to Pay for Party Primaries...
