Former White House aide Bill Burton is joining the Global Strategy Group as executive vice president in its Washington office. Burton is co-founder and senior strategist for Priorities USA Action, a super-political action committee that helped re-elect the president. Burton has “a...
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Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton briefs reporters at the White House in Washington, on June 21, 2010.
Obama Re-Election Behind Him, Burton Joins Consulting Firm
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A Tea Party supporter from Brunswick, Georgia, stands outside the Supreme Court.
Who Really Gave $12 Million to FreedomWorks Super-PAC?
Two groups advocating for stronger campaign finance laws, the Campaign Finance Institute and Democracy 21, have asked the Justice Department and Federal Election Commission to look at two companies that contributed $12 million to the Tea Party-aligned FreedomWorks’ super-political action...
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Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp., center left, and wife Miriam Adelson in Macau.
Adelsons’ Campaign Total: $53.4 Million
Casino executive Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam have given $53.4 million to candidates, parties and political action committees for the 2012 elections, according to the latest figures from the Center for Responsive Politics. The two gave $20 million to...
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Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, addresses the volunteers who helped construct a home in Middleborough, Mass., presented to Iraq War disabled veteran Sgt. Peter Damon, right, and his wife, Jen, by the non-profit organization Homes for our Troops, in this file photo.
Pro-Romney Super-PAC Spends $17.7 Million in 10 States
The main super-political action committee backing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is spending $17.7 million on two television ads that will air in 10 key states this week. Restore Our Future, which is run by veterans of Romney’s 2008 campaign,...
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Cleveland Browns' new owner Jimmy Haslam sits in the "Dog Pound" in the first half of their game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Cleveland Browns Stadium on August 24, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio.
New Browns Owner Joins Colleagues in Backing Republicans
Jimmy Haslam III, approved this week as new owner of the Cleveland Browns, will feel right at home during league meetings when the discussion turns to politics. Many more National Football League owners support Republicans over Democrats, and Haslam is...
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Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp. and chairman of Sands China Ltd.
Adelson, Koch Among Donors to Republican Convention
Casino executive Sheldon Adelson, who with his wife have given $36 million to super-political action committees in 2012, contributed $5 million to the host committee that helped stage the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, in August, new Federal Election...
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Houston homebuilder Bob Perry
Perry’s $2 Million Top Donation to Republican Governors Group
The Republican Governors Association raised $14.8 million in this year’s third quarter, including $2 million from Houston homebuilder Bob Perry, it said in a filing to the Internal Revenue Service. Perry’s donation was the largest to the RGA during the...
Read more »State of Play: Independent Ad Spending
You won’t hear “I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message” or “I’m Mitt Romney, and I approve this message” on these commercials, but if you live in a swing state, you’re seeing plenty about both candidates from political groups...
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Cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder discusses the painting "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" by Gustav Klimt at the Neue Galerie Museum in New York City.
Billionaire Lauder Funding Super-PAC Opposing N.Y. Senator Gillibrand
Billionaire cosmetics executive Ronald S. Lauder is bankrolling a super-political action committee that’s helping New York Republican Wendy Long in her longshot campaign to unseat Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Lauder donated $500,000 on Sept. 6 to National Horizon, according to...
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., left, and Rep. Timothy Bishop, D-N.Y., on Capitol Hill.
Super-PAC Ad: Bishop is Pelosi `Pawn’
A Republican super-political action committee is using a chess-themed play on words in a television ad linking New York Rep. Tim Bishop and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. “He’s not a bishop. He’s Pelosi’s pawn,” a narrator says after attacking...
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