By Courthouse News Service By , Courthouse News SACRAMENTO (CN) – AB 249, a bill aimed at illuminating dark money in political campaigns, landed in a key California Senate committee Tuesday, and its author said the legislation is “long overdue.Source: Campaign-Finance ‘Dark Money’ Bill Clears Key California Senate Committee...
Outside groups, such as super PACs and their more secretive brethren politically active nonprofits, spent more money during the first eight months of the 2018 election cycle than over the same period in any previous cycle.Source: Dark money, super PAC spending surges ahead of 2018 midterms...
The chief opponents of this unobjectionable idea are politicians and patrons who want to keep voters in the dark.Source: Editorial: California lawmakers’ choice between voters, donors...
Care about freedom of the press? Support independent investigative journalism.Source: Members of Congress scoring personal loans from political supporters...
In 2016, Multnomah County, Oregon, passed, and voters approved, a measure which created contribution limits, expenditure limits, registration requirements, and disclosure requirements for spending related to county races.Source: Daily Caller: Liberals’ Latest Effort To Resist Citizens United (In the News)...
Soon after the Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. FEC, the D.C. Circuit held all limits on contributions to super PACs unconstitutional. Its decision in SpeechNow.org v.Source: Why Limits on Contributions to Super Pacs Should Survive Citizens United...
Husted is running against Renacci for the GOP nomination for governor. Current Ohio Gov. John Kasich's (R) term expires in 2019. Source: Report: Ohio rep gives illegal donation to his own gubernatorial campaign...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators are bucking President Donald Trump's calls to revive the health care debate. And Trump just ousted his only top White House aide with deep links to the Republican Party. But the president and his party won't be calling it quits any time soon.Source: Trump's fundraising prowess keeps Republican Party close...
Care about freedom of the press? Support independent investigative journalism.Source: Comeback for 'legalized money laundering' in party politics?...
For years, the Left has screamed that money and speech are not one and the same. Last year, Hillary Clinton promised a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and declared an anti-speech litmus test for Supreme Court appointments if she was elected. Thankfully, she wasn’t.Source: The Left Insisted That 'Money Isn't Speech' - Until Donald Trump Jr. Met With the Russian Lawyer...
