(Via Washington Post- msnbc.com.)
The financial gap between Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton has grown increasingly pronounced during the presidential primary season, and the Clinton campaign is now shouldering sizable debts to several key consultants and advisers, campaign records show.
Clinton entered April with about $9.3 million in cash on hand, but she also […]
(Via The Associated Press.)
Democratic Party officials want a federal judge to order an investigation into whether Sen. John McCain violated election laws by withdrawing from public financing, saying federal regulators are too weak to act on their own.
A lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission, to be filed Monday in U.S. District Court, questions the agency’s […]
(Via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall.)
We’ve mentioned this before but it remains an interesting dynamic to watch.
You’ve got the John McCain of lore — the maverick riding the Straight Talk Express who flirted with caucusing with the Democrats, if not running with Sen. John Kerry on the Democratic ticket in 2004 — […]
(Via washingtonpost.com.)
Sen. Barack Obama credits his presidential campaign with creating a “parallel public financing system” built on a wave of modest donations from homemakers and high school teachers. Small givers, he said at a fundraiser this week, “will have as much access and influence over the course and direction of our campaign that has traditionally […]
(Via MSNBC.com: Politics.)
Obama agreed in September that he’d support public financing for elections. More recently, he’s suggested that the Web has eliminated the need for public financing. But public financing removes money from the equation (both candidates get the same amount), while online fund-raising doesn’t.
(Via AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth.)
John McCain, the one-time champion of campaign finance reform, is a campaign finance criminal. He scammed the public financing system last year, but the scam backfired because McCain is stuck in it now according to the Federal Elections Commission. And, McCain has busted the public finance […]
