Opinion · 117th Congress
‘Quite extraordinary’: Taking control in November would unleash a GOP leadership maelstrom
“Well, what they’re doing, what he’s doing with his Super PAC is totally different than what we do,” he said.
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Congress · 117th Congress
Power Rankings: How political players resemble the top college football teams in all the land
More offense: A super PAC affiliated with the minority leader, the Senate Leadership Fund, is spending money Scott’s outfit doesn’t have to pour into races, according to Federal Election Commission
Opinion · 117th Congress
Why ‘no corporate PAC money’ pledges are important
One of the steps we took was to encourage members of Congress to reject corporate PAC money.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Joe Manchin is a bona fide centrist. Deal with it
Meanwhile, an anti-Manchin and anti-Sinema political PAC has formed to defeat them in their prospective 2024 primaries and another is running an ad campaign to pressure Democratic senators to abolish
Opinion · 117th Congress
In our political rewards system, fundraising tops accountability. That has to change
If media reports are correct that the PAC spent on direct advertising only about a third of the $90 million it raised, with much going to board members and their companies, I suspect Democratic donors
Opinion · 117th Congress
Companies are abandoning anti-democratic politicians, but they shouldn’t abandon their PACs
What does the public understand that PAC critics don’t? For starters, PACs are the best example of campaign finance reform that works.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Errant Republicans must loudly hail Biden’s legitimacy
[jwp-video n=”1″] Some of these private reassessments have been prompted by the crassest reason imaginable — the growing corporate move to cut off PAC support for the 147 senators and House
Opinion · 116th Congress
Who is Kelly Loeffler?
with hundreds of thousands of past donations to the National Republican Congressional Committee, House and Senate members including Perdue and Isakson, and $750,000 to Mitt Romney’s presidential super PAC
Opinion · 116th Congress
Double standards for 2020 Democratic hopefuls? You don’t say
Carr, the president and CEO of Higher Heights for America PAC, a national organization that focuses on mobilizing and elevating the voices of black women, said in a statement about the candidate her group
Opinion · 116th Congress
With both parties awash with cash, maybe campaign reform isn’t so quixotic
While outside spending mattered in a limited number of 2018 Senate races like Florida, for the most part, Republican super PAC moneybags such as the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson were matched by Democratic
Opinion · 115th Congress
What If Trump Is Trying to Throw the 2018 Elections?
president unleashed a bitter Twitter attack on the “globalist Koch Brothers,” excoriating as “overrated” the network of conservative donors who have been the bulwark of congressional GOP funding in the super PAC
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: An Absolutely Truthful Christmas Card From Congress
“Do you have a super PAC?” But even worse is having to make small talk with donors. As if I care about some elderly guy’s lumbago or what some woman just saw on cable TV.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Short Life Span of the Trump-McConnell Buddy Movie
The Koch Brothers and their network of Super PAC contributors have announced plans to spend as much as $400 million on the 2018 elections to ensure that the Republicans retain control of Capitol Hill
Opinion · 114th Congress
Finding Sanity in a N.Y. District 3 Hours North of Trump Tower
But in a super PAC era, the candidates themselves are bystanders in their own campaigns.
Opinion · 114th Congress
New Sanders Group Illustrates Legal Compliance Challenges
explicitly recognize only two types of “political committees” that may be “established, financed, maintained or controlled” by a federal candidate or elected official: a campaign committee and a leadership PAC