Sunlight on Citizens United and new ads
The Sunlight Foundation Blog notes the recent Mother Jones piece on unions’ political spending post-Citizens United here. The blog post also links to an ad from the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund, implying that the ad was funded by so-called “soft money.” League of Conservation Voters Action Fund is a political committee registered […]
Top Democratic aides headline fundraiser
Roll Call reports on a fundraiser featuring top aides from Capitol Hill. Top aides to the Democratic leadership team — including John Lawrence and Jerry Hartz for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Terry Lierman and Stacey Bernards for Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.), and Yelberton Watkins and Mike Hacker for Majority Whip James Clyburn (S.C.) — […]
Political corporate advertising, “unthinkably bad business?”
ADWEEK examines Citizens United and corporate interest in political advertising here. The most likely outcome in the coming election season is that we’ll hear more, probably much more, from groups like Citizens United, from whom we’ve been hearing all along. But we won’t be hearing, “Walmart, home of rollback savings on everyday low prices, endorses…”