New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, wielding the power of the Empire State’s $160.4 billion pension fund, won the widest margin ever in a shareholder vote in favor of a resolution forcing corporate disclosure of political giving. The almost 66 percent...
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New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli waits for a news conference to begin on Jan. 7, 2013, in Albany, N.Y.
NY Comptroller Scores Record Corporate Political Disclosure Vote
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A Chevron Corp. station in San Francisco.
Chevron’s $2.5 Mln Donation Challenged by Advocacy Groups
A coalition of advocacy groups filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission today over Chevron Corp.’s $2.5 million donation to a super-political action committee aligned with House Speaker John Boehner. Chevron’s donation to the Congressional Leadership Fund was one...
Read more »Campaign Finance Reformers Cheer Court for What It Doesn’t Do
Advocates of stronger campaign finance regulations haven’t had much to cheer about when it comes to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Republican-appointed majority voted, 5-4, to overturn decades worth of legislation and precedents in its Citizens United decision in 2010, and then...
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Obama’s ‘Cashier’s Window’
President Barack Obama, who pledged as a presidential candidate in 2008 to strengthen the Federal Election Commission and nominate members “committed to enforcing our nation’s election laws’, is now creating “an unprecedented vehicle for potential influence-buying, influence-selling and government scandals...
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A billboard on Interstate 94 east of downtown St. Paul, Minn. makes an appeal to soldiers and military veterans to support a proposed voter ID amendment on the ballot in Minnesota.
Citizens United Foes, Civil Rights Pros: Common Ground on Voter ID
Advocates trying to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision or otherwise enact new limits on campaign spending are finding a common cause with civil rights groups fighting Republican efforts to enact voter-identification laws. They say the issues are related....
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington.
Political Disclosure on SEC Agenda
A coalition of groups pressing for disclosure of corporate political contributions said today that it is heartened by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s decision to include plans for a proposed rule on its agenda. “We congratulate the SEC for listening...
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The Federal Election Commission chairwoman, Democrat Ellen Weintraub (L), and the vice chairman, Republican Donald McGahn (R), shown here in 2008 in different roles.
FEC `On the Roof:’ Balking Blocs
The Federal Election Commission chairwoman for 2013 will be Democrat Ellen Weintraub, and the vice chairman will be Donald McGahn, a Republican. These are the two leaders of the two FEC blocs that have prevented the commission from taking any...
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Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, right, salutes while Jeanine McDonnell, daughter of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, center, and Christopher Devlin-Young, Gold Olympian alpine ski racer, exit the stage at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Aug. 29, 2012.
Democrats: Campaign Finance Reform — Remembering McCain
Although the Democrats defeated Senator John McCain in the contest for the White House four years ago, they still support the campaign finance law he co-authored — while his own Republican Party last week disavowed his signature legislation. The Democratic...
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President Barack Obama at a campaign event in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 29, 2012.
Obama Answers Questions from Campaign Finance Reform to Beer
The president answered ten questions from users of the social news website Reddit yesterday ranging from the mundane to the serious. The news from the interview, which the president did from Charlottesville, Virginia, at the end of a two-day campaign...
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A rally at the Supreme Court to mark the second anniversary of the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court.
Super-PACs: Little From Corporations
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission may have overturned a century-old ban on corporations spending money on federal elections. Yet that 2010 ruling, which also spawned the creation of independent expenditure-only committees known as super-PACs...
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