Protesting big money in politics at the Denver debate (VIDEO)
Denver — Greetings from Denver, home of Mitt Romney endorser/ex-Broncos quarterback John Elway….and where Comrade Marinucci and I are here covering the first debate between Romney and Prez Obama. While...
View ArticlePhotograph with Paul Ryan may set you back a few
Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee, will headline a $1,000 a head fundraiser in Manhattan later this month. It costs $5,000 to get a picture taken. Mitt Romney has headlined...
View ArticleCanadian firm gives $1 million to Romney
A U.S. subsidiary of the giant Canadian insurance company Fairfax Holdings has donated $1 million to Restore Our Future, the “SuperPAC” boosting Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. The donation by...
View ArticlePool report: Obama in SF urges supporters to be “obsessive” in campaign’s...
Here is the pool report from the first part of President Obama’s visit to San Francisco Monday. He spoke for eight minutes before the pool was ushered out and he took questions from those who paid...
View ArticleFull pool report of Obama’s SF bash with 6,000, including John Legend,...
Maybe Republican Mitt Romney, enjoying a post-debate bounce, is back on top of some of those national polls. But in San Francisco — the bluest of the blue strongholds — President Obama is always the...
View ArticleBad omen? Michelle Obama asks for money BEFORE debate
After the last presidential debate, President Obama sent out an online fundraising pitch. That’s standard operating practice these days — hit supporters up for cash right as their hitting political...
View ArticleIt’s not just rich Republicans — unions also giving millions to SuperPACs
The vast majority of the media coverage of this year’s SuperPAC phenomenon has focused on conservative billionaires who’ve given millions to Republican-leaning or anti-Obama SuperPACs. But it’d be a...
View ArticleDoes it really pay to spend more?
Millions of dollars are poured into tight Congressional campaigns in the hopes that more money, and in turn more advertising, will help candidates win elections. Although a few financial underdogs...
View ArticleSix key takeaways from Tuesday’s election results
There truly is a demographic tidal wave sweeping over the nation, and Republicans ignore it at their own peril.
View ArticleGiving $ to Karl Rove: A terrible return-on-investment
Fiscal conservatives, listen up: If you invested money in a political campaign in this cycle, one of the WORST people to give it to was Karl Rove. His return-on-investment — i.e. achieving the desired...
View ArticleA dozen foundations say no to fossil fuel stocks
A dozen American and international foundations, with assets of more than $1.8 billion, announced Thursday that they will divest from Big Oil and Big Coal stocks, and put their money into the clean...
View ArticleSenate Democrats cozy to big donors, and nobody else
Ten Democratic women from the U.S. Senate, plus a pair of promising 2014 Senate challengers, came calling on Seattle Saturday — very quietly. Ordinary party activists did not get to meet them. Nor...
View ArticleBritish Columbia orders independent probe of mine disaster
With its own credibility on the line, the British Columbia government on Monday ordered an independent investigation of the tailings dam breach on Aug. 4 that sent huge quantities of water and...
View ArticleOutside spending skyrockets in 2014 campaign for Congress
Outside groups, often funded by big donors who hide their identities, have spent nearly $180 million in 2014 races for the U.S. Senate and House, in a mid-term election whose fall campaign is just...
View ArticleBiden, Gingrich, Obama: Paying for access to America’s leaders
Equality is the cornerstone of American government, but a stratified class system has taken hold more than ever when it comes to access to America’s elected leaders. A “pay to play” system was already...
View ArticleA late-breaking election: Just 20 percent of ballots returned
The 2014 election in Washington appears headed for a familiar pattern, low voter participation followed by last-minute voter turnout. The Secretary of State’s office reported Thursday that as of...
View ArticlePoliticians ring out the old year by ringing the bell for campaign cash
The Politico website delivered a tout sheet this week on 16 U.S. Senate contests to watch in 2016; the re-election race of four-term Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., was nowhere on the list. Murray has,...
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