Having failed to win the White House, Mitt Romney is using his leftover campaign funds to help the Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives. Romney’s joint fundraising committee with the Republican National Committee and state parties contributed $743,704...
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Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivers remarks during the second day of the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on March 15, 2013.
Romney Gives Excess Campaign Cash to House Republicans
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U.S. Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 1040 Individual Income Tax forms
Tax Day April Fool’s Plus Two Weeks: Cruz
They don’t call him a Tea Partier for nothing. “I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the month of April begins with April Fool’s Day and then two weeks later Tax Day comes,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says in a...
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Jim Graves, CEO of the Graves Hospitality hotel company, is applauded as he enters the room with his wife Julie, right, on April 10, 2012 in St. Cloud, Minn.
Losers of Close 2012 Races Seek 2014 Rematches
‘Tis the season for would-be members of Congress to announce rematches of close losses last November. Minnesota businessman Jim Graves, a Democrat who came within 1.2 percentage points of unseating Republican Michele Bachmann in 2012, said today he’d try again in...
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Karl Rove
Crossroads GPS to FEC: No Means No
Once again the Federal Election Commission has asked the Republican non-profit group Crossroads GPS to disclose its donors. And once again the big-spending organization linked to Karl Rove has rebuffed the request. The latest back-and-forth began yesterday, when the FEC...
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Stickers in English and Spanish are available for voters at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library on November 6, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Obama: ‘Sí, se Puede’ Communicate
President Barack Obama has taken at least one good page from George W. Bush’s book. He knows how to go around the Washington media. Obama, however, has taken it a step further. He knows how to go around the English-speaking...
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Organizing for Action head Jim Messina during an Organizing for Action dinner on March 13, 2013 at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, DC.
Messina: Guns, Immigration and 2014
Jim Messina, the Obama campaign wizard who has taken on the challenge of pressing the president’s agenda going forward, is weighing in on gun safety and immigration this week and next — but don’t look for any Washington news conferences....
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Priebus: ‘Traveling Circus’ Out — ‘Biologically Stupid’ Talk Forbidden
It was Bobby Jindal who warned his party to “stop being the stupid party.” And Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said today that his party needs to stop running around saying “biologically stupid things” — and avoid...
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Wisconsin Congressional candidate Rob Zerban speaking at campaign event in Janesvilles, Wis., on Oct. 3, 2012.
Paul Ryan’s Wisconsin Opponent Explores 2014 Rematch
The Wisconsin Democrat who tried to unseat Rep. Paul Ryan in 2012 is eyeing a rematch with the Republican vice-presidential nominee. Rob Zerban, a former county supervisor, filed paperwork establishing an “exploratory” bid in Wisconsin’s 1st District, which includes Kenosha,...
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Mariachi musicians sing and play as they go from house to house to encourage people to come to vote on election day at the Sun Valley's Latino district, Los Angeles County, on November 6, 2012 in California.
Hispanic Electorate Doubles Republican Party’s Troubles
The sudden openness of Republican leaders to an overhaul of immigration laws — including a path to either legal residency or citizenship for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. — stems from another “drubbing” at...
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus at the National Press Club on March 18, 2013 in Washington.
RNC Suffers Super-PAC Envy
The Republican National Committee is jealous of super-political action committees. That bit of envy is tucked away on page 64 of the RNC’s 97-page “autopsy” of how to right itself after failing to win the White House and a Senate...
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