California's Top Political Donors For State Ballot Measures Revealed
The mega-donors include politically opposed siblings, a 91-year-old car insurance magnate, a conservative group that keeps its donors secret and a teachers union that has outspent every other special interest in the last decade. MapLight.org tracks the ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Loyalty's for Chumps on The Street: Bankers' Man in 2008, Obama's been ...
According to the campaign fund tracking website Open Secrets, after the $1.65 million donated by a political action committee (PAC) for the University of California, the next biggest contributor was a PAC for the giant bank, Goldman Sachs, whose ...www.thiscantbehappening.net
Big donors give far and wide, influencing out-of-state races and issues
All told, Gill, who did not respond to a request for comment, has doled out nearly $3.7 million to state and federal causes and campaigns in the past five years, making him the largest political donor from Colorado who wasn't funding his own campaign ...openchannel.nbcnews.com
Kareem Ahmed: The Obama Mega Donor Who Got Lost In The Crowd
He'll tell you about his dream to someday take the proceeds of his business and build the largest non-profit children's hospital in the world in Southern California's Inland Empire. He'll tell you how he fixed Democratic political strategist Paul ...tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com
In Iowa, political donors get value
Yet, Iowa's top donors may do a better job of getting voters to the polls in what is considered a swing state in this presidential election because their money is staying in Iowa and being used to motivate its voters, political science experts told ...wcfcourier.com
Federal government workers among Obama's top campaign donors
The top campaign contributors, according to the center, were employees with the University of California system, who put up more than $700,000 for the president's re-election bid.www.foxnews.com
Tom Hanks Tangles With Bart Simpson as California Democrats Duel
Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Two California Democrats with more than 45 years in Congress between them are pitted against each other for the same seat in an unusual family feud that's dividing the party from top to bottom. Marquee Democratic donors are set ...www.sfgate.com
Top 10 donors to Prop. 30
Jerry Brown's campaign for Proposition 30 has raised more than $16 million in the last three months, filings released by the California Fair Political Practices Commission Friday show. Brown's fundraising efforts trounced those of the primary group ...www.dailycal.org
Preparing for aggressive campaign schedule, Romney says no more fundraising ...
Romney's California fundraising chairman sought to ease donors' concerns that the GOP nominee's campaign was headed in the wrong direction. Thomas Tellefsen told the crowd at the Beverly Hilton he understood they are "probably feeling a bit worried" ...www.startribune.com
Iowa's biggest campaign donors focus on state, not national issues
Knapp, of Des Moines, emerged as Iowa's top donor to state and federal campaigns in an analysis of 2011 and 2012 Federal Election Commission and Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure data by the Investigative News Network, IowaWatch and several other ...qctimes.com
Feds urged to crack down on donations to bond measures
Critics of political donations to school bond campaigns from companies that profit from the bonds are urging federal regulators to take bolder steps against what they call a "pay to play" practice.californiawatch.org
La Jollans Are ATMs for Political Candidates
This is more money then any other ZIP code in San Diego, and among the top four ZIP codes in California. The total ... Top donors in La Jolla come from a mix of professions, including business owners, venture capital investors, developers and homemakers.lajolla.patch.com
A California Rule That Could Make Politics More Honest, Open
The California disclosures are usually included in small type or fast talk at the end of spots because voters rejected an early-2000s initiative that would have required listing the top five donors to any TV commercial within the ad in type matching ...www.smmirror.com
Mitt Romney gains late traction among tech-industry donors
President Barack Obama may be the one campaigning Monday in Silicon Valley, California - the unofficial capital of America's technology industry - but Mitt Romney is the presidential candidate with surging popularity among tech-sector donors ...www.deseretnews.com
Prop. 34: Death penalty opponents include California's rich and famous
Proposition 34, a ballot measure that would abolish the death penalty in California, faces long odds at the polls. But it has a major advantage over the opposing campaign -- wealthy donors, from Silicon Valley executives to Hollywood actors, willing to ...www.mercurynews.com
2012 elections: Silicon Valley cities giving big
FEC, politics, Romney, Obama, money, Silicon Valley. FEC.gov. This nationwide map from the Federal Election Commission shows how much California donors are investing in the 2012 elections compared to contributors in other states. ... Menlo Park is ...www.bizjournals.com
UPDATE 1-Romney pulls in big bucks in southern California
Spencer Zwick, the campaign's national finance chairman, assured donors their money would be spent wisely: to build a "massive ground game across the country in those swing states" and buy more television advertising.in.reuters.com
Area key not just for votes, but for money
Residents in the 15-county metropolitan area have given almost $18 million this election cycle, mostly to Mitt Romney and Republican groups, according to an Enquirer analysis of current campaign donations to individuals and political action committees ...news.cincinnati.com
Prop. 32 takes aim at union money
The November election will bring a third attempt to curb the political power of unions in California. Proposition 32 would ban the use of payroll deductions for political purposes in state campaigns, eliminating a tool that has made organized labor a ...www.ocregister.com
Professors stock Obama's campaign war chest
The top donors, measured by number of donations, were Duke University with 54 contributions, followed by 46 from the University of Michigan, 43 from the University of California, 40 from the University of Washington and 37 from Stanford University.www.washingtontimes.com
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