Boehner Ignores New Yorkers Feeding Republicans: BGOV Barometer
The House Republicans’ fundraising committee collected $1 of every $8 in large individual contributions for the 2012 elections from residents of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, before their...
View ArticleAT&T, Microsoft Among Corporate Donors to Obama Inaugural
AT&T Inc. (T), whose political action committee backed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is among the first donors to President Barack Obama’s inaugural committee, according to a...
View ArticleFURIOUS NEW YORK REPUBLICAN: New Yorkers Should Never Give To The GOP Again...
House Republican leadership has decided to adjourn before taking up the Hurricane Sandy relief package that arrived from the Senate, infuriating local lawmakers from both parties. The bill, which would...
View ArticleWall Street Outspent Lawyers Funding Romney’s Bid
Wall Street outdid the legal profession in raising money for Mitt Romney, making him the first major-party presidential nominee in at least two decades who didn’t rely on lawyers as his biggest source...
View ArticleBoeing, GE Update House Donations After Backing Losers
The political action committee of Boeing Co. (BA) last year donated $3,000 to then-Representative Larry Kissell’s bid for re-election. Thirteen days after the North Carolina Democrat lost, the PAC cut...
View ArticleGun Anger Often Fades as NRA Plays Waiting Game: BGOV Barometer
President Barack Obama may have a limited time to rally public opinion as he pushes Congress to enact new restrictions on gun ownership. The BGOV Barometer shows public support for new gun laws...
View ArticleNY Divide: Upper West Side for Obama, East Backs Romney
New York, New York, divided by two. The East Side’s red and the West Side’s blue. Three zip codes on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan are among the most lucrative locations for...
View ArticleSmall Donors Flee House Republicans, Flock To House Democrats In First...
Rep. Allen West topped all House candidates in small donor fundraising for the first quarter of 2012. WASHINGTON -- Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) knows how to rile with rhetoric. He has called the entire...
View ArticleSenate Republicans Block Campaign Donor Disclosure Bill
The U.S. Senate didn’t advance legislation that would require nonprofit groups to reveal who donates the millions of dollars they spend on campaign ads. Yesterday’s vote on the Democratic proposal was...
View ArticleMillion-Dollar Advantages Banked by House Republicans to Hold Majority
Freshman U.S. Representative Nan Hayworth has almost a million-dollar head start on paying for her 2012 re-election. Two years ago at this time, the New York Republican had raised less than $170,000 as...
View ArticleCommon Cause Seeks End to Republicans’ Use of Filibuster
Common Cause, a Washington-based watchdog organization, is asking a federal court to overturn the Senate filibuster, which Republicans have used more since Democrats captured the chamber in 2007. The...
View ArticleDemocratic Convention Panel Gives Back Wal-Mart Cards
The Democratic National Convention is returning $50,000 in gift cards donated by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., (WMT) which has been accused of bribing Mexican officials to speed expansion there. The cards were...
View ArticleSoros to Contribute $2 Million to Aid Democratic Groups
Billionaire investor George Soros, who gave more money to outside political groups in 2004 than anyone else, is pledging $2 million this year to two pro-Democratic organizations, a spokesman said...
View ArticleSantorum Doubles Fundraising After Win in Iowa as Romney Leads Republicans
After winning the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum more than doubled his fundraising last month as compared with the entire previous year. According to Federal...
View ArticleDemocrats Fundraise With Scorned Super-PACS, Lobbyists
Lobbyists, corporate donors and super-political action committees are routinely the subject of scorn by Democrats. All three featured prominently this week during the party’s national convention. “The...
View ArticleCampaign Giving by Text Seen as Fee Source: BGOV Barometer
The Romney and Obama campaigns want supporters to be able to send contributions instantly using their smartphones, a step that would let telecommunications companies join in collecting fees that now...
View ArticleRomney’s Net Worth Remains as High as $250 Million
Mitt Romney’s net worth remains as high as $250 million, according to financial disclosure forms that show the presumptive Republican presidential nominee sold stock in companies such as McDonald’s...
View ArticleRomney and Party Out-Raise Obama and Party During June
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the Republican Party raised $106 million last month, more than the $71 million announced today by President Barack Obama and his allied...
View ArticleRepublicans Accuse IRS of Scrutinizing Tea Party Groups
Senate Republicans today expressed concern that the Internal Revenue Service was singling out Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny in deciding whether to grant them tax-exempt status. “It is critical...
View ArticleSoros to Donate $1 Million to Super-PAC Backing Obama
Investor George Soros, a long-time donor to Democratic candidates and causes, has agreed to contribute $1 million to the super-political action committee run by former aides to President Barack Obama....
View ArticleObama Money Edge Competes With Republican Cash ‘Tsunami’
Four years ago, Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential nominee in at least two decades to outspend the Republican challenger. The incumbent president shouldn’t expect the same advantage...
View ArticleRomney Raises $40 Million, Rejects Super-PAC Attack Plan
Presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee raised $40.1 million in April in their first month of joint fundraising, his campaign announced today. Meanwhile, the...
View ArticleGoldman Employees Join Bain as Top Donors to Romney Group
Employees of Goldman Sachs Group (GS) Inc., the biggest source of donations directly to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, are also the top givers to the joint fundraising committee he has set up...
View ArticleDemocratic Platform Mirrors Obama and Backs Same-Sex Marriage
Democrats unanimously voted today to endorse same-sex marriage in their party’s platform, the first time a major political party has supported the issue in its statement of policies. Today’s action at...
View ArticleRepublican Governors Group Outraises Democrat Counterpart
The Republican Governors Association outpaced its Democratic counterpart during the first six months of 2012, taking in $29 million from January to June, including almost $17 million in the last three...
View ArticleObama Raises $45.9 Million in June to $33 Million for Romney
President Barack Obama raised $45.9 million last month and entered July with $97.5 million in the bank, Federal Election Commission reports today show. He started July with more money in the bank than...
View ArticleObama Tops 2007 Fundraising With $128 Million Amassed in 2011 for Campaign
President Barack Obama entered his re-election year with more money to spend than he had four years ago when he defeated Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination. Obama reported a bank account...
View ArticleObama Campaign Reports Raising $181 Million in September
President Barack Obama and allied Democratic Party committees raised $181 million in September, the largest monthly total in his re-election effort. The money, announced by the campaign this morning on...
View ArticleObama Calls Student After Limbaugh’s Attacks
President Barack Obama called a college student to offer her his support after radio commentator Rush Limbaugh attacked her for advocating health insurance coverage for contraception. Limbaugh’s...
View ArticleRomney Shunning Federal Funds in Post-Watergate Election
With Mitt Romney raising private funds for the fall campaign, this year’s presidential election will be the first since the Watergate scandal in which neither major party’s nominee accepts federal...
View ArticleJPMorgan Employees Join Goldman Sachs Among Top Obama Donors
Employees of Wells Fargo & Co., (WFC) JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) were among the biggest sources of donations to President Barack Obama’s re- election campaign...
View ArticleCasino Owner Adelson Gives Pro-Romney Group $10 Million
Casino executive Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam have given $10 million to a political action committee supporting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, according to a person...
View ArticleObama Campaign Raises $25.7 Million in April, Report Says
President Barack Obama’s campaign raised $25.7 million in April and entered this month with $115.2 million in the bank, according to a report filed today with the U.S. Federal Election Commission....
View ArticleRomney, Republican National Committee Raise $100 Million
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and allied party committees raised more than $100 million in June, Republican National Committee political director Rick Wiley said today on...
View ArticleRepublicans Outraising Democratic Rivals in House Races
Trying to win a second term in the U.S. House, Republican Nan Hayworth of New York has almost tripled her fundraising. “I’m out there on the road, in the district, as I should be,” Hayworth said. “I...
View ArticleSessions Says Republicans Open to Tax-Entitlements Trade
Congressional Republicans would be willing to accept an increase in tax rates for top earners if Democrats make significant reductions in entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, the...
View ArticleRomney Raises $170 Million in September With Republicans
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and allied party committees raised more than $170 million last month and reported $191 million in the bank as of Sept. 30. For the second straight month,...
View ArticleRomney May Fundraisers Outpace Obama’s Contributions
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee announced today that they raised more than $76.8 million last month, surpassing the amount reported by...
View ArticleRomney Makes His First Donation to 2012 Presidential Campaign
Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who spent $44.7 million on his 2008 campaign, has made his first donation to the 2012 White House contest. Romney and his wife, Ann, each contributed $75,000...
View ArticleRepublican Groups Help Romney Fill Cash Gap With Obama
President Barack Obama held a 10- to-1 cash advantage at the start of this month in the campaign fundraising contest with Republican Party front-runner Mitt Romney. The president had $100 million in...
View ArticleRepublicans Raise Cash on Fishing Boat, Shooting Range
When Texas Representative Mike Conaway goes fishing during the Republican National Convention this week, he’s also looking to reel in piles of cash for his leadership political action committee....
View ArticleChamber of Commerce $33 Million Lost Most Races: BGOV Barometer
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce went 14-36 in the 2012 congressional races where it ran political advertisements, rivaling the won-lost record of the 1962 New York Mets. The BGOV Barometer shows that the...
View ArticleRealtors Lead Election Giving as Housing Revives: BGOV Barometer
The National Association of Realtors is poised to lead in political giving this year as the housing market rebounds from the deepest slump since the 1930s. The BGOV Barometer shows that the Realtors’...
View ArticleObama Outpaces Romney in Small-Dollar Donations: BGOV Barometer
Small-dollar donations remain the backbone of President Barack Obama’s fundraising prowess while presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney tries to catch up. The BGOV Barometer shows that 37 percent...
View ArticleParties Raise Record Cash After ’Soft Money’ Ban: BGOV Barometer
A decade after Congress barred the political parties from taking corporate, union and unlimited individual donations, the Republican and Democratic parties are raising more money than ever. The BGOV...
View ArticleRepublicans Join Democrats to Back Ending Donor Anonymity
As spending by outside groups financed by anonymous donors has escalated in election campaigns, some Republican lawmakers are rethinking opposition to legislation requiring organizations that run...
View ArticleObama Stands Aside as Election-Law Enforcement Weakened
Barack Obama pledged as a presidential candidate to strengthen the Federal Election Commission and nominate members “committed to enforcing our nation’s election laws.” Since taking office, he hasn’t...
View ArticleShutdown Fight Spurs Fundraising Bonanza by Invoking Cruz
Even as the federal government ran out of money last night prompting a partial shutdown, political parties, candidates and partisan advocates seized the moment to fatten their campaign bank accounts....
View ArticleHouse 2014 Fundraising Start Signals Incumbent Dangers
About a quarter of the 28 most endangered House incumbents have an unusual common problem: well-funded opponents. “To have challengers at that level of funding this early in a race, everybody knows...
View ArticleKing Says Tea Party Republicans Have Lost Budget Battle
House Republicans aligned with the Tea Party have lost their fight with the president, and Congress soon will open the government and raise the debt ceiling on a short-term basis, according to...
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