Category: FEC

Campaigns Playing the Stock Market

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 11, 2009
Categories In FEC, House

CQPolitics has conducted a study of House campaigns using contributions to invest in the stock market. In October, I noted that Sen. Bill Frist lost about $400,000 in the market.

Twittering Political Campaigns

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 7, 2009
Categories In FEC

Nextgov takes a look at how political campaigns may use Twitter for fundraising or generating support. Crunching the numbers on Twitter traffic patterns suggests that the San Francisco-based site could be an effective fundraising tool in time for the 2010 midterm elections. While no official statistics are available, early data suggests that the click-through rate […]

PMA Group Editorial

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 2, 2009
Categories In FEC

This morning’s Times has this editorial on the PMA Group story. PMA funneled more than $40 million in donations to members of Congress since 1998, including $2.4 million to Mr. Murtha and $7.8 million to members of his committee. Congress, in turn, rewarded PMA clients with rarely debated earmarks. Last year, the firm was able […]