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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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Less than three percent Palin's itemized PAC contributions from Alaskans
By Luke Rosiak Jul 22, 2009 5:19 p.m.Less than three percent of the itemized money raised by resigning Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's leadership PAC came from Alaskans, newly filed campaign finance reports show. SarahPAC reported raising more than $730,000 in the last six months--less than half of the $1.6 million raised by Mitt Romney's PAC.
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$1,000 to the Jerry Lewis Portrait Committee
By Bill Allison Jul 14, 2008 9:46 p.m.LD-203 forms--on which lobbyists disclose their contributions to lawmakers' campaigns, to presidential libraries, and to nonprofits honoring members of Congress, is available online. The disclosure that prompted the headline of this post is here. Lots of other interesting stuff, but there are a little less than 3,917 records in the entire database, which makes me think that the data isn't yet complete. There are also all the usual issues with inaccurate federal data -- here's a a $200,000 contribution to Sen. Barbara Boxer's leadership PAC. That's a bit more than the $5,000 FEC limit.
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The Favor Factory: Earmarks and Campaign Cash Connections
By Anupama Narayanswamy Oct 5, 2007 7:22 p.m.Three members of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee have received an average of $102,600 in campaign contributions from employees and political action committees of the companies they've favored with earmarks in the first six months of 2007. The rest of the members of the subcommittee have netted collectively $180,000an average of about $12,800 per memberfrom the beneficiaries of their earmarks.
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Out of Compliance: Nonprofit with ties to Stevens' PAC, Tardy on Paperwork and Fees to the State of Alaska
By Anupama Narayanswamy Jul 23, 2007 6:43 p.m.An Alaskan nonprofit foundation that raises money to make the records and mementos of Sen. [Ted] Stevens' career in public service" has failed to file registration documents or pay fees since 2004, according to the Alaska Department of Law. In response to a FOIA request to the department for all documents filed by the Ted Stevens Foundation (recently renamed the North to the Future Foundation), we received papers filed in 2003 and were told by department officials that none had been filed since then.
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Rep. Russ Carnahan tied to Arch Leadership PAC
By Bill Allison Jun 4, 2007 2:38 p.m.Following up on this post, I spoke to Vince Currao, a political consultant for both Rep. Russ Carnahan and the Arch Leadership PAC. Currao said that Carnahan is the honorary chair of Arch Leadership PAC and that the Missouri lawmaker "raises money for" it.
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Looking into Arch Leadership PAC
By Bill Allison Jun 3, 2007 3:17 p.m.Just for fun, I thought I'd take ten minutes and see if I can track down another mystery PAC for our friends at the Center for Responsive Politics--this time the Arch Leadership PAC. FEC filings list the PAC's address as 906 Olive St., Suite 1212, St. Louis, MO 63101. Googling it, I got a lot of links--the one that caught my eye was this campaign finance report from the Missouri Ethics Commission showing that Tom Carnahan, treasurer of a state-registered campaign committee for Robin Carnahan, lists that address. Googling Tom and Robin Carnahan, one comes across this bio of former Sen. Jean Carhahan:
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