Via the Chicago Tribune All you need to run for president these days is a billionaire. Or two. Three is even better, but you can certainly manage with just one. The bottom line is: Presidential campaigns — with the help…
Read MoreVia NPR The price tag for the most expensive penthouses in Manhattan is just edging past $100 million. That’s also the size of contributions given by conservative businessman David Koch and Hollywood mogul David Geffen to Lincoln Center for…
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Read MoreVia YouTube Published on Oct 17, 2012 Our latest explainer video, on the storied history of money in politics. Lyrics Available Here
Read MorePublished on Apr 12, 2013 HipHughes breaks down Campaign Finance Reform and the Citizens United decision from the Supreme Court case “Citizens United vs FEC”
Read MoreVia The Washington Post At one point during the oral argument Tuesday in the case of McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, Justice Antonin Scalia remarked that he didn’t understand the legislation in question. “This campaign finance law is so intricate…
Read MoreVia The Washington Post THE SUPREME Court has rightly upheld a Florida ethics rule that prohibits judges from personally soliciting campaign contributions. The case involves a lawyer, Lanell Williams-Yulee, who in 2009 sent out a letter announcing her candidacy for a county…
Read MoreVia Breitbart In the past two weeks the German founder of an international porn distribution company was convicted of tax evasion stemming from charges he had not paid taxes on $100 million in profits, while Reuters reported that American authorities declined to…
Read MoreVia The Detroit News Money is poisoning our political system. The people who matter most to a representative democracy — the ordinary voters in whose interests elected politicians are supposed to act — feel as though they’ve become an afterthought…
Read MoreVia The Tennessean Republican Rep. Kevin Brooks of Cleveland says all he did in January was ask fellow GOP lawmakers to keep an open mind on Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s Insure Tennessee proposal. But the House assistant majority leader quickly…
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