Via Common Dreams In the final days of the midterm campaign, shadowy outside groups that wield heavy influence but don’t disclose their donors are spending tens of millions of dollars on attack ads, mailers, and negative automated telephone calls aimed…
Read MoreVia NPR Campaign finance rules allow some groups to not disclose their donors. The New York Times’ Nick Confessore says there could be “influence peddling … because we can’t see the money changing hands.” Listen/View Full Interview
Read MoreVia The Chicago Sun-Times They could have bought 29 Walgreens-leased drug store properties across the country. Or just given each of the state’s 12.8 million residents $7.76. Instead, Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican Bruce Rauner spent their combined $100 million…
Read MoreVia RIA Novosti WASHINGTON, November 4 (RIA Novosti) – The most expensive midterm election in US history is also marked by less transparency in campaign finance and portends a possible rise in special interest spending in the 2016 elections, experts…
Read MoreVia The Daily Herald Illinois voters will have their say Tuesday on hot-button issues ranging from minimum wage to birth control. Five statewide referendum questions will be on the ballot in Tuesday’s election — the most in at least 44…
Read MoreVia Atlanta Journal Constitution Seen enough political advertising yet? No? Well, don’t worry. If the governor’s race goes into a runoff, you’ll be able to bask in attack ads from now until December. If the Senate race goes into a…
Read MoreVia The Huffington Post If you live in a competitive congressional district (and most of us don’t), you’ve been receiving lots of “free” information lately about the candidates who would like to represent you in the next Congress. Mailers, ads,…
Read MoreVia The Center for Public Integrity At least 29 donors have given $1 million or more to state-level campaigns so far this election, with a dozen of the big givers made up of self-funding candidates, according to an analysis of…
Read MoreVia The Center for Responsive Politics The 2014 midterms may well mark the election cycle in which the small donor got left behind. Revised projections by the Center for Responsive Politics for the total cost of these congressional races suggest…
Read MoreVia The Center for Responsive Politics Overall ad spending has broken $1 billion in federal elections and state governors’ races, with the total number of ads exceeding 2.2 million. According to a new report by the Wesleyan Media Project in…
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