UtI has a new report on American Crossroads here. Big time donors fretting about Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s troubles are helping fuel early fundraising success for a new 527 group being promoted by GOP uber strategists Ed Gillespie and Karl Rove. The group recently filed its Form 8871 with the IRS and that’s […]
Month: March 2010
Massachusetts campaign solicitation in the news
The Boston Globe reports that a Timothy Cahill solicitation for political contributions was sent to government email addresses. It was not clear what type of sanction, if any, Cahill’s campaign might face. In past cases, the Office of Campaign and Political Finance has ordered candidates who violate the law to return the donations they solicited […]
Partisan politics behind post-Citizens United reforms?
Hans von Spakovsky and Roger Gordon, Jr. raise that question here. For all of the concern shown for the poor, misinformed shareholders who supposedly must be protected from the evil decisions of their corporate overlords to spend money on political advocacy, no one seems concerned about the members of unions, particularly those members in states […]