Category: FEC

Campaigns bank $400 million

The Post reports. Although this year marked the most expensive midterm campaign in U.S. history, that doesn’t mean that all the political money has been spent. Federal lawmakers and former candidates still have almost $400 million left in the bank.

Push for disclosure

Charles Kolb encourages measures to promote corporate and union disclosure of political activities in this Huffington Post piece. My preference would be a total ban on all corporate and union political contributions and expenditures. As noted, companies and unions don’t vote, individuals do. In the absence of full public funding of our elections, the only […]