Top Democrats in the Senate are urging Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to crack down on dark money spending in political campaigns. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.Source: Top Democrats urge Yellen to crack down on dark money groups...
WASHINGTON — When allies of former President Barack Obama set up a super PAC to support his 2012 re-election, the White House disowned the group, The New York Times published a scathing editorial and former Democratic Sen.Source: Democrats used to rail against 'dark money.' Now they're better at it than the GOP....
Washington, DC – The Institute for Free Speech published new research today finding no evidence of increased public corruption following the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.Source: New Research: No Rise in Corruption Since Citizens United...
Dark money could be trending toward a record low this election cycle. It’s a development the media has been suspiciously silent on. "Dark money” is a pejorative label for campaign spending by groups that are not political committees.Source: The 2020 election could see record lows for 'dark money' influence...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — To describe what he would do as president in 2021, Steve Bullock harks back to the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, when the wealthy copper mining barons of Montana wielded political influence across the state.Source: For Democratic presidential hopeful Steve Bullock, it’s all about the ‘dark money’...
Reform-minded Democrats have long held up "dark money" — political money that can't be traced back to its source — as a symptom of what's wrong with politics in Washington.Source: Democrats Want To End Dark Money; But First They Want To Use It...
In a time of deafening media noise, momentous revelations slip through unnoticed, none more explosive than a recent report under the venerable Atlantic Council's auspices. The subject concerns foreign dark money insidiously influencing our elections. And it's a rock-hard stick of dynamite.Source: The Latest Bombshell: How Dark Money From Hostile States Has Entered Our Elections...
Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday escalated her presidential campaign’s battle against big money in politics, announcing that her bid for the Democratic nomination will forgo traditional fund-raising methods meant to cultivate a candidate’s relationships with the wealthy.Source: Elizabeth Warren to Forgo Receptions and Fund-Raisers With Big Donors...
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Anna first joined the Center for Responsive Politics in September 2015.Source: State of Money in Politics: Billion-dollar ‘dark money’ spending is just the tip of the iceberg...
