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Reading the big green tea leaves in Sanford-Colbert Busch race
By Kathy Kiely and Jacob Fenton May 6, 2013 4:45 p.m.
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Democratic establishment betting heavily on Colbert Busch upset in S.C.
By Kathy Kiely Apr 22, 2013 12:58 p.m.
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Four House races where outside money may have pushed the needle
By Keenan Steiner Nov 7, 2012 3:12 p.m.Two standing congressmen, Joe Heck and Reid Ribble, who were helped by outside money
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Eleven House races drawing 11th-hour outside money
By Becca Heller and Lindsay Young Nov 3, 2012 8:04 a.m.
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Democratic super PACs come into their own
By Jacob Fenton and Nancy Watzman Oct 16, 2012 3:38 p.m.
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Colorado: Team Romney keeping a low profile in a swing state?
By Nancy Watzman Oct 3, 2012 9:07 a.m.The campaign activity that's visible so far calls into question how much the Republican nominee and his backers plan to invest in a state where recent polling shows Obama ahead of Romney, and public records show the president outspending his rival in major television markets.
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Target Nevada: Silver State drawing lots of green from campaigns
By Kathy Kiely Oct 1, 2012 12:25 p.m.Nevada is used to high rollers, but the state has special reason to be blase about this set.
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At Democratic super PACs briefing, strategists ask for more cash
By Keenan Steiner Sep 4, 2012 10:19 p.m.CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- If there were millionaires at Tuesday's happy hour for prospective donors of the three major super PACs backing congressional Democrats and President Obama, they were not the recognizable backers of the groups. And there was not much exclusive about the affair.
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Democratic joint super PAC is a first
By Keenan Steiner Mar 12, 2012 12:42 p.m.Just when you thought you had the shadowy world of super PACs figured out, here comes a new twist: Three big Democratic super PACs -- formed to support President Barack Obama, and House and Senate Democrats -- are banding together to form the first ever joint fundraising super PAC.
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Meet the first “Corporate” Super PAC
By Lindsay Young Oct 17, 2011 4:07 p.m.Today came a moment campaign finance watchers have been waiting for: the first corporate "Super PAC"--that is a PAC whose sole source of funding is corporate money--filed its paper work with the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC).
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FEC proposes rule to allow federal officeholders, candidates to appear at Super PAC fundraisers
By Bill Allison Jun 24, 2011 11:10 a.m.In response to a request by a pair of Democratic Super PACs, the Federal Election Commission has proposed a new rule that would allow members of Congress, federal candidates and national political party officials to appear and speak at fundraisers for independent expenditure-only committees, or Super PACs, but would bar them from asking corporations, labor unions or individuals for the unlimited contributions that fueled the spending of these outside groups in the 2010 election cycle.
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Democratic Super PAC raises individual, union, corporate and Super PAC contributions
By Bill Allison Jun 23, 2011 6:05 p.m.The House Majority PAC, one of the two Democratic Super PACs currently seeking permission from the Federal Election Commission to have federal candidates and party officials solicit funds for them, has disclosed its first batch of donors in the 2012 election cycle. Among the big givers are stalwart Democratic donors, including unions like the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ($200,000) and the Communications Workers of America ($50,000), individuals like Fred Eychaner ($100,000) and George Soros ($75,000), trial law firm Kazan McClain Lyons Greenwood & Harley ($10,000), tech company Integrated Archive Systems ($25,000) and America's Families First Action Fund ($50,000), which is itself a Super PAC.
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Two groups oppose soliciting for Super PAC scheme
By Bill Allison Jun 7, 2011 3:24 p.m.
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Bauer returns to firm with Super PAC practice
By Bill Allison Jun 2, 2011 2:42 p.m.Departing White House counsel Robert Bauer is returning to the election law practice he built at Perkins Coie, where his once and future colleagues have been active on behalf of a pair of Super PACs. The firm recently asked the Federal Election Commission to rule on whether politicians can raise unlimited sums from any source for "independent expenditure-only" groups.
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