CAW Press Release: Campaign Finance Watchdog Spearheads Battle Against Anonymous Donations
Applauds IRS Initiative to Enforce Gift Tax of Fraudulent Non-Profits Announcement Comes Months After Campaign Accountability Watch Sends Letter on Issue to AG Holder WASHINGTON, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --…
NYT: I.R.S. Moves to Tax Gifts to Groups Active in Politics
May 12, 2011- Big donors like David H. Koch and George Soros could owe taxes on their millions of dollars in contributions to nonprofit advocacy groups that are playing an…
CREW Sends Letter to President Obama Supporting Executive Order Requiring Transparancy of Campaign Finance
If you've been following the news, you've probably heard about the President's executive order drafted April 13, which would require full disclosure of campaign donations made by business entities seeking…
Brad Blog: Clay County, KY Election Officials Sentenced to 156 Years in Election Rigging Case
ALSO: Voting Machines Impounded in Perry County, KY May 9, 2011- It is now officially impossible to know whether thousands of paper ballots being counted in the state of Wisconsin's…
Little Green Footballs: League of Women Voters forced to stop voter registration in Florida
May 9, 2011- One of the oldest and most respected third party voter registration groups in the country just announced they will cease voter registration Florida after the passage last…
Alternet: Unlimited Secret Money Is Drowning Democratic Elections
Corporate interests are flouting election law by using anonymous donations, which are drowning out the voices and votes of working Americans. May 6, 2011- The 2012 presidential election year promises…
NYT: Big G.O.P. Donors Adopt Wait-and-See 2012 Tack
May 7, 2011- The vaunted Republican network of high-dollar donors and fund-raisers, for so long a fear factor for Democrats, has been slow to commit itself to the 2012 presidential…
POE Press Release: Nonpartisan Group Offers $25,000 Reward For Evidence of Tampering in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Election
Nonpartisan Advocacy Group Offers $25,000 Reward For Evidence of Tampering in Wisconsin's Supreme Court Election WASHINGTON, May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ProtectOurElections.org today offered a $25,000 reward for "information leading…
Open Secrets: Citizens United Decision Profoundly Affects Political Landscape
May 5, 2011- Unprecedented political spending. Secret donors. New ways for unions and corporations to spend money on politics. Effects of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission View more…
Washington Post: Op-Ed: Why the GOP should support publicly funded campaigns
-By Alan Simpson May 5, 2011- Memo to George Will: I was there. I was proud to testify at the April 12 hearing on Sen. Dick Durbin’s campaign finance bill…
Politico: Legal challenge to GOP independent cash
May 5, 2011- Campaign Accountability Watch, a coalition of dozens of smaller liberal groups, has launched a legal challenge to outside spending by GOP-leaning groups like the U.S. Chamber of…
Wall St. Journal: Democrats Copy Republicans on New Donor Group
April 29, 2011- Looking to counter Republicans who poured money into the 2010 election, much of it from anonymous donors, Democrats formed their own group today that will do the…
RAW Story: Feingold compares new Obama fundraising group to Karl Rove
April 29, 2011- Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) on Friday tore into Democrats for launching a new outside group to aid President Barack Obama's re-election efforts in part by raising…
The Motley Fool: Shedding Light on Hidden Agendas
April 29, 2011- It's no secret that corporate political contributions are highly controversial, but a lot of that controversy comes from these donations' very secrecy. As corporations try to keep…