LA Times: Hunted by the ‘super PACs’
Conservatives applauded the Citizens United ruling. But now GOP candidates are feeling the heat. Editorial January 14, 2012- When the Supreme Court handed down its 2010 decision in Citizens United…
Huffington Post: Super PAC Disclosure Requirements Hot Topic Of Conversation Among GOP Candidates
-By Sam Stein January 5, 2012- TILTON, N.H. -- The rapid rise and far-reaching impact of super PACs -- the well-financed non-party groups that helped carry former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt…
AlterNet: ‘Citizens United’ Unleashed a Monster: Why the Real Winner In the Iowa Caucuses Is the Big-Money Super PAC
They can spend unlimited amounts of money. They don't disclose donors until after the votes are counted. They deluged Iowa with millions of dollars of harsh negative ads. -By Steven…
Think Progress: Elizabeth Warren, Scott Brown Targeted By Super PACs
-By Andrew Migra December 26, 2011- Watch the political advertising and Elizabeth Warren, the leading Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts, either "sides with extreme left" protesters or has a history…
USA Today: Outsider campaign spending linked to GOP candidates surges
-By Fredreka Schouten December 19, 2011- Independent groups supporting Republican presidential candidates have sprung to life, funding a flurry of new commercials in recent days to influence the Jan. 3…
TruthDig: Bernie Sanders Explains Why Congress Fears Citizens United
-By Bill Boyarsky December 16, 2011- It took just 12 minutes and 29 seconds on the Senate floor for Sen. Bernie Sanders to expose the real power of corporate America…
Cap Times: Walker and Kochs vs. voting
-By John Nichols December 11, 2011- Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch finally got their way in 2011. For decades they funded the American Legislative Exchange Council, the collaboration between…
Huffington Post: Karl Rove’s ‘Fully Coordinated’ Super PAC Ads Drive The FEC To Deadlock
-By Paul Blumenthal December 1, 2011- In a Thursday session featuring a lengthy and testy exchange between two commissioners and the repeated invocation of comedian Stephen Colbert, the Federal Election…
Think Progress: Just Three Corporate Front Groups Spent 13 Times As Much As The Entire Labor Movement To Buy Judicial Elections
-By Ian Millhiser October 27, 2011- After the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate money in American elections, the decision’s defenders claimed this wasn’t such…