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Groups ask feds to investigate mystery corporate campaign donations
By Keenan Steiner Dec 20, 2012 11:28 p.m.Election watchdog groups are asking the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission to investigate a mysterious series of large campaign donation first reported by Sunlight.
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Secret money fuels Freedomworks
By Jacob Fenton and Keenan Steiner Dec 7, 2012 10:37 a.m.New filings show that Freedomworks, the Tea party-aligned super PAC that's in the midst of a messy leadership breakup, got more than $12 million from two shadowy companies set up just this fall.
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Adelsons' $10 million checks revealed among last-minute campaign donations
By Jacob Fenton, Keenan Steiner, and Jake Harper Dec 7, 2012 12:23 a.m.Eye-popping checks from the Adelsons were among the more startling findings as campaign committees revealed their last-minute election donors.
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Super PACs that stay off the air
By Keenan Steiner Oct 25, 2012 12:40 p.m.With early voting starting Saturday in Florida, a Miami-based group of community organizers and union members will be undertaking a major push across five of the battleground state’s cities to get voters to the polls.
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After health care, what will happen to Dodd-Frank?
By Nancy Watzman Jun 28, 2012 4 p.m.While the U.S. Supreme Court has now upheld the health care reform law as constitutional, conservative groups still are on a legal attack on the constitutionality of one of the other signature achievements of President Barack Obama’s term in office: the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
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Utah sees $1.6 million in outside spending, including a corporation
By Lindsay Young Jun 26, 2012 11:50 a.m.Spending by outside interest groups helped force Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, into a primary, but the veteran lawmaker, comfortably ahead in Tuesday's race according to an election eve poll, is benefiting from some home state corporate love.
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Fight to oust Hatch fuels a $1 million outside money blitz
By Keenan Steiner Mar 16, 2012 12:08 p.m.With Sen. Orrin Hatch appearing to pass a first crucial political test on Thursday night when his supporters swelled attendance at GOP caucus meetings in his state to record numbers, the inundation of outside money in the Utah Senate race may only pick up steam. Super PACs have played a bigger role in the multi-stage contest that will decide the 36-year Senate veteran's fate than any other 2012 congressional contest so far. And that's not even counting the money spent by a nonprofit group spending hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting Senator Hatch.
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