Crossroads GPS, the Republican non-profit group that spent more than $70 million in the 2012 election to directly advocate the election or defeat of federal candidates, has again said the Federal Election Commission made a “misstatement of law” when the agency...
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Karl Rove before the start of the second day of the Republican National Convention.
Crossroads GPS to FEC: `Misstatement of Law’ on Disclosure
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A woman holds political literature during a Mitt Romney campaign event at Paramount Printing January 26, 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida.
$6 Billion Election: $700 Mln Increase
Anyone seeing more TV ads or getting more campaign literature in the mail than ever isn’t imagining it. Spending on the 2012 presidential and congressional races will exceed $6 billion, according to an estimate released today by the Center for...
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Americans for Job Security paid $8,165,368 to Crossroads Media LLC to purchase the airtime from television stations, Federal Election Commission records show.
Business Group Runs — Literally — $8 Million in Ads
A jogger who says she is running “to forget the bad economy” stars in the latest television ad making a direct appeal to disaffected supporters of President Barack Obama. Americans for Job Security, a Republican-leaning business group, is behind the...
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Sen. Chuck Schumer and a group of Democratic senators announced new legislation "to blunt the worst effects" of the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision.
Koch and Rove Groups Facing New Legal Challenge from Democrats
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee today asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate three Republican-leaning nonprofits who are spending millions on the 2012 campaigns. The groups are Crossroads GPS, co-founded by Karl Rove; Americans for Prosperity, which is linked to...
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Protestors outside the site where President Barack Obama was holding a fundraiser in San Francisco.
Crossroads: Obama Promise Broken
This is a season of slogans. President Barack Obama, attempting to play Congress as a foil, initiated a “We can’t wait” agenda of moves the administration could make on its own. And now, the president is promoting a “to-do-list” for...
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