Taxpayers now own about 80% of AIG, according to this Treasury Department press release. According to FEC data, the American International Group Inc. Employees Political Action Committee is still in operation and its latest cash on hand is about $32,000.
How is the internet helping “underfunded” candidates? In a lot of ways, it turns out. This LA Times article explains. “Internet technology has created campaign opportunities for underfunded candidates that didn’t exist before,” said Steven Afriat, a veteran Los Angeles political consultant who is not involved in any of Tuesday’s municipal contests. But technology cannot […]
YouTube won’t be providing White House videos any longer due to privacy concerns, according to this C|Net report. The focus of the criticism was on the use of long-term tracking cookies by the Google-owned video-sharing site. When the new White House site first went live in January, every visitor to the president’s blog would be […]