It’s funny how over the past year we keep hearing about the Tea Party being a “grassroots” organization. Now we have more proof dismissing that myth: Just days after the first widespread tea party demonstrators hit the streets a year ago Thursday, Joe Wierzbicki, a Republican political consultant with the Sacramento firm Russo Marsh + […]
It looks like John Boehner has a problem with accurately filing paperwork required under the FEC: Since 1996, Boehner’s congressional campaign committee has received 63 letters from the Federal Election Commission requesting “additional information” to correct seeming errors in reports the committee submitted. That total surpasses similar FEC requests to Ohio’s 17 other representatives. Rep. […]
Image via Wikipedia Everyone knows that Boehner loves his golf, but it turns out he loves it a little too much: By all public estimations, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is a pretty good golfer. He should be, given the $82,998 his political action committee has spent on golf outings so far this year, […]
My God you can’t say hypocrite loud enough when reading this: The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.” Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said […]
Not a real shocker here, but it turns out that a lot of the TARP recipients are lining the pockets of our leaders through political donations: In recent filings with the Federal Election Commission, the political action committee for Bank of America (which got $15 billion in bailout money) sent out $24,500 in the first […]
Her campaign is massive debt: Barack Obama began the month of April with a 5-1 cash advantage over a debt-saddled Hillary Rodham Clinton, setting the stage for his lopsided spending in the crucial primary state of Pennsylvania. Financial reports filed Sunday by the Democratic presidential candidates with the Federal Election Commission show Clinton had $10.3 […]
Welcome Steve Driehaus to the race for OH-01: Republican Rep. Steve Chabot survived a serious Democratic challenge in the tough political environment of 2006, but it appears he will not get a break from tough competition in the next round. Democratic state Rep. Steve Driehaus, whose potential already is being touted by national party strategists, […]
I posted earlier this week about Cincinnati billionaire Carl Lindner and his deep pockets for the GOP. As you recall, Lindner was the CEO of Chiquita during the time they were supporting terrorist organizations in South America. In that post I directed the readers to Newsmeat to check out Carl’s past donations. I also noted that […]
After a week of hearing how we would embolden the terrorists because of the Democrats anti-surge resolution, we find out something really interesting: Terrorism charges brought Friday against the administrator of a loan investment program claimed that he secretly tried to send $152,000 to the Middle East to buy equipment such as night vision […]
AWWW how sad: The fundraising organization that helped vault former Rep. Tom DeLay to Republican leadership ranks in the House and distributed election money to numerous Republicans has been fined for campaign finance violations and is shutting down. Under an agreement with the Federal Election Commission, Americans for a Republican Majority’s political action committee agreed […]