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Obama gaining in battleground state contributions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Showing impressive momentum, President Barack Obama raised more in high-dollar contributions than Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the last two months in 10 of 11 battleground states that are pivotal to win the...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Charity, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Washington, DC
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Election is over, but 'super PACs' remain a threat
Just as the devil's finest trick is persuading you that he doesn't exist (according to the poet Baudelaire), the best trick of big-money political donors may be persuading Americans that Citizens United doesn't matter. Citizens United, of course, is the...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Los Angeles Times Columnists, Retirement, White House
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Money is on the unofficial agenda at the Republican National Convention
TAMPA, Fla. — A little more than a year ago, Frank VanderSloot contributed $1million to a "super PAC" supporting Mitt Romney. Now, the Idaho-based health products executive is a sought-after donor at the Republican National Convention as he makes...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Michele Bachmann, Americans for Prosperity, Tampa, Eric Cantor
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A love affair with numbers
Farm and Food FileWe have long proclaimed, and make no apology for, our deep love affair with numbers. Since figures backstop fact, numbers are the meat and potatoes and forks and knives of journalism. They are, in a word, beautiful, and, like true beauty, they can take...Tags: POLITICO LLC, Democratic Party, Weather Statistics, Internal Revenue Service, Humane Society of the United States
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Romney arrives at condensed GOP convention
Mitt Romney arrived Tuesday at the condensed Republican National Convention in Tampa as organizers kept a nervous eye on Hurricane Isaac churning toward Louisiana's coast. The storm caused a one-day delay in the convention agenda, but Republican...
Tags: Donald Trump, Tea Party Movement, Antonio Villaraigosa, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Tampa
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Mitt Romney clinches GOP nomination
Mitt Romney officially clinched the GOP presidential nomination Tuesday when a majority of delegates to the Republican National Convention supported his candidacy. To roaring cheers in the packed Tampa Bay Times Forum, the delegation from New Jersey...
Tags: Donald Trump, Political Candidates, Antonio Villaraigosa, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, John McCain
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Paul Ryan's faux populism
American VoicesLast Friday, Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee, made the most populist speech of this campaign season. "It's the people who are politically connected, it's the people who have access to Washington that get the breaks," he...Tags: Energy Saving, Petroleum Industry, Macau, Conservation, The New York Times
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Who’s paying for those fliers and ads? Disney, FPL, GEO Group, assorted m/billionaires
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — With heated legislative primaries going full-steam in Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville, we thought we'd go back and take a minute to highlight who some of the biggest financiers of these campaigns turned out to be. For the last quarter,... -
Romney's foreign folly
Jules WitcoverThe big question about Mitt Romnney's trip to England, Israel and Poland in the midst of his presidential campaign seems to be, or should be: Why? In his bid to oust President Obama in November, Romney apparently agrees with the conventional wisdom...Tags: Israel, Jerusalem (Israel), Jules Witcover, Ronald Reagan, Tampa
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Rafalca Romney Tweets From The Olympics
The Hartford CourantRafalca, the horse co-owned by Ann Romney and ignored by Mitt, is in London competing in the Olympic event called dressage. Finally over jet lag. If you think flying coach is bad, I had to stand the whole way. Airplane food is terrible, even in horse...Tags: Harvey Weinstein, Ann Romney, Equestrian, Tea Party Movement, Ball Gymnastics
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Mitt Romney Records Second $100 Million Month
CNNThe fundraising effort of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney brought in more than $100 million for the second month in a row, his campaign said Monday morning. The $101.3 million haul is just shy of the campaigns June fundraising,...Tags: Political Fundraising, Charity, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Clint Eastwood
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Weeks in review
Change of SubjectA roundup of state and local news-review and weekly political chat shows. Descriptions provided by the broadcast outlets in most cases: Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review (WTTW-Ch. 11) Host Joel Weisman with John McCarron and Kristen McQueary, Chicago...
Sep 21, 2012
|Story| Petoskey News
Dec 9, 2012
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Aug 29, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Sep 1, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
Aug 28, 2012
|Column| WXIN-LTV
Aug 28, 2012
|Column| WXIN-LTV
Aug 21, 2012
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Jul 17, 2012
| Orlando Sentinel
Aug 1, 2012
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Aug 4, 2012
|Column| Hartford Courant
Aug 6, 2012
|Story| KTLA-LTV
Aug 2, 2012
| Chicago Tribune
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