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Sheila Krumholz -- she follows the money
It was a California politico, Jesse Unruh, who nailed the relationship between dough and democracy: "Money is the mother's milk of politics." Where does it come from, and where does it go? Sheila Krumholz makes it her business to tell us. As executive...
Tags: John Ashcroft , Charity, General Electric Company, Political Fundraising, Finance
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Political group telling your neighbors if you voted
A political group is sending sleazy letters to people in the Lehigh Valley and other states trying to turn neighbor against neighbor in the final days before Tuesday's election. The letters, from Americans for Limited Government, hit local mailboxes last...Tags: Lafayette College, Media Industry, Bucks County, Allentown, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Robert B. Reich: BP is not a criminal
American VoicesThe Justice Department has entered into the largest criminal settlement in U.S. history with the giant oil company BP, in connection with the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history....Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Democratic Party, Halliburton Company, Court Preliminary, Arthur Andersen
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Citizens United argument should cut both ways
The bitterly sarcastic drama planned next week in Allentown is understandable. The American political process is being polluted by expensive deluges of propaganda, designed to boost politicians who cater to the insatiable greed of billionaires. That's...
Tags: Hellertown, Allentown, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, U.S. Supreme Court, George W. Bush
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Many Chicago Democrats untapped by pro-Obama super PAC
So far, almost all of Chicago's top Democratic donors have abstained from giving to Priorities USA Action, the leading super PAC supporting President Barack Obama's re-election campaign. According to records released late Thursday, only a half-dozen or...
Tags: Chicago Elections, Mitt Romney, Democratic Party, Charity, Political Fundraising
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Don't believe everything you hear during election season
As the presidential election nears, expect your phone to ring or your email to ding with people seeking your money and your opinions. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. It should be the money part that worries you. As always, new scams are popping up to...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Interior Policy, Media Industry, Allentown, Charity
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Robert B. Reich: How the GOP protects its falsehoods
American Voices"We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers," says Neil Newhouse, a Romney pollster. A half-dozen fact-checking organizations and websites have refuted Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's claims that President Obama removed the work...Tags: Paul Ryan, Media Industry, Rush Limbaugh, The New York Times, USA Today
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Robert B. Reich: The billionaires' long game
American VoicesI keep hearing that the billionaires and big corporations that poured all that money into the 2012 election learned their lesson. They lost their shirts and won't do it again. So we don't need campaign finance reform. Baloney. It's true their...Tags: Las Vegas Sands Corporation, John Boehner, Bribery, Mitt Romney, Political Fundraising
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Muzzle Mitt on taxes now?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- For all the media clamor for Mitt Romney to come clean on his past tax returns, maybe his campaign advisers would be better off just advising him to keep quiet on the matter, before he gaffes again. Romney's supposedly clarifying remark...Tags: Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Personal Income
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McManus: The NRA has won
Politicians haven't always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans. In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr., Congress — on a bipartisan vote — outlawed guns sales to felons...
Tags: Interior Policy, Mitt Romney, Democratic Party, Dianne Feinstein, Lobbying
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Donovan Scandal Shows Ties Between Taxpayer-Funded Offices And Campaigns
The Hartford CourantThursday's seven new arrests in the ongoing federal probe of Christopher Donovan's congressional campaign highlighted a widespread but oft-overlooked practice: elected officials transferring taxpayer-funded staff employees to campaign committees as they...Tags: Labor Legislation, Democratic Party, Charity, Political Fundraising, Justice System
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Put up or shut up
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the expanding political universe of anonymous allegations and nonresponsive responses, the latest exchange between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and prospective Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney takes the cake. At issue...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Sean Hannity, Democratic Party, Mitt Romney, Executive Branch
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