Bush camp launches legal fight against large-dollar Democratic funders
The Republican National Committee and President Bush’s campaign opened a new field of fire Wednesday on Democratic “soft money” groups that are raising millions of dollars to air anti-Bush ads and do grass-roots organizing to defeat him.
In an unprecedented move, the RNC and the Bush campaign filed [...]
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Battling over anti-Bush donors
November 20th, 2009 by HardMoney Writer
Tags: America Coming Together, Bush, Bush campaign, Federal Election Commission, hard money, Media Fund, Real Networks CEO, soft money, The Republican National Committee
more...Shurtleff mixes hard money with soft
November 17th, 2009 by HardMoney Writer
An attorney in Park City claims that Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has violated federal campaign finance laws by using “soft money” raised under state financing rules to help bankroll his federal campaign for a U.S. Senate seat.
Attorney Joe Tesch requested in a nine-page complaint Oct. 16 that the Federal Election Commission investigate Shurtleff.
Shurtleff said [...]
Tags: attorney, finance laws, hard money, soft money, tesch
Follow the Money Hard money. Soft money. Lobbying money
November 2nd, 2009 by HardMoney Writer
Looking down on Washington , the common view is that beneath the surface of benevolent democracy seethes a crass commercialism. A little campaign cash from your neighborhood interest group, and presto! you’ve got instant corruption. Such is business as usual inside the Beltway. Isn’t it?
Not necessarily. What would happen if clout in the capital could [...]
Tags: brokers, hard money, insurance industry, lobbying money, Mark Mellman, National Rifle Association, soft money
US parties check fundraising index
October 28th, 2009 by HardMoney Writer
The two main US parties have collected more money than ever before despite new financing laws, latest figures show.
The Democratic and Republican national committees raised more than $1bn from 1 January 2003 to 13 October this year, the Federal Election Commission said.
Using the last figures available before the 2 November general elections, the FEC [...]
Tags: Democratic, financing, George W Bush, money, Republican, soft money, US tax
Appeals court overturns travel capital rules
September 19th, 2009 by HardMoney Writer
Independent recommendation groups cede produce effective to spend additional money to shakedown to prevail governmental elections subservient a the call Friday from a public appeals expert that amazed rules limiting nonprofits’ itinerary spending.
Three judges of the U.S. chancellor of Appeals magnetism Washington agreed take cover Emily’s List, a nonprofit that backs sex Democratic candidates who [...]
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