We hear a lot these days about a “dysfunctional” Federal Election Commission, including from the Agency’s own Chair, Ann Ravel, who, after a promising start, has apparently decided it’s not worth the trouble to work constructively within the Agency she nominally heads, and Commissioner ElleSource: A Dysfunctional FEC? Calling Inigo Montoya...
The super PAC supporting Carly Fiorina for president changed its name Monday from Carly for America to CARLY for America super PAC, which stands for: ConservativeAuthenticResponsiveLeadership forYou and ...
--MR. TRUMP, WE MEET AGAIN: Donald Trump -- the real estate mogul, reality television star and hair icon -- will announce today whether or not he will launch his first run for the White House at the iconic Trump Tower in New York City, ABC's JOHN SANTUCCI notes.Source: The Note: Donald Trump Plays His Card...
The Internal Revenue Service may have found 6,400 emails from Lois Lerner, who oversaw the tax agency’s Exempt Organizations Unit, but they aren’t sharing and their excuse is priceless!Source: IRS Finds 6,400 Lois Lerner Emails But Won't Hand Em Over...
Jeb Bush on Monday officially declared that he’s running for president, following a long period of staffing up, traveling and fundraising as an all-but-declared candidate. For months he has been snapping up some of the most prominent names in establishment Republican politics.Source: The power players behind Jeb Bush's campaign...
MIAMI — Jeb Bush, a scion of the most recognizable family in Republican politics who fashioned an image as a sober-minded conservative truth-teller while governor of Florida, is running for president.Source: Jeb Bush launches 2016 presidential bid...
The latest Sacramento proposal to spur voter turnout would radically reduce the number of polling places and would send ballots to every registered voter. Voters could then mail them back, drop them off or vote at one of the remaining polling placesSource: Proposal to mail ballots to all voters targets low turnout in California...
Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold — long a champion of campaign finance reform — founded a political action committee that has given a mere 5% of its income to federal candidates and political parties. Instead, nearly half of the $7.Source: Feingold’s PAC funded fees, salaries for himself, ex-staffers...
Augustus and Julius, Khan and Macedon, Roosevelts and Kennedys, Bushes and Clintons—what is it that makes rival family dynasties so compelling? Across time, across cultures, across political systems, there is a common theme of dominant families rising to power for decades or centuries on end.Source: What’s With American Political Dynasties?...
This is only the second presidential election in which super PACs, which can raise unlimited money as long as they don’t coordinate directly with candidates, will play a role.Source: What Happens to Surplus Super PAC Money?...
