Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) is facing a recall election after he pushed through legislation last year that limited public workers’ bargaining rights. And now a special Wisconsin state law that allows recall targets to raise unlimited amounts of money in the early days of the campaign has helped Walker raise an unprecedented amount of
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“Corporations are people, my friend,” Mitt Romney enthusiastically exclaimed last fall at the Iowa State Fair. Romney was referencing legal principles that give business corporations many of the rights possessed by actual human beings. But Romney is more than the exponent of this idea, he is its embodiment. If Romney wins in November, it will
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Now that he’s essentially wrapped up the Republican nomination for president, Mitt Romney has been enjoying a flood of big money. Apparently, Romney fundraisers “are now saying many of the big donors that had been staying ‘on the sidelines’ in the primary are coming to their camp and writing big checks.” Those donors in the
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With Gingrich and Santorum out, Mitt Romney is the inevitable Republican presidential nominee. Victory is sweet, but it hasn’t come cheap for the candidate, who has spent a whopping $18.50 per primary vote he received. His campaign alone spent a total of $76.6 million for 4.1 million votes. CNN reports that the money was used
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In one of the most watched primary elections tonight, incumbent Democratic Congressman Tim Holden (D-PA) lost to attorney Matt Cartwright. A ten-term lawmaker, Holden was well known in the region and enjoyed support from most of the state’s Democratic establishment. But Holden faced two challenges. One, a redrawn district that forced the congressman to run
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The rush to spend campaign cash is only getting started. During the Republican primaries, as both candidates and Super PACs flooded the early states with money, so many ads were purchased that local television stations ran out of space to sell. In South Carolina, Rick Santorum was forced to buy campaign spots during television shows
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Congressman Tim Holden (D-PA) is in a fight for his career as he takes on left-leaning attorney Matt Cartwright in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary next week. Holden has faced criticism that he serves the interests of his corporate donors rather than the public interest — voting time and again to help big banks, industrial polluters,
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Here’s an obvious reason for members of Congress to fix our campaign finance system in the wake of the Citizens United decision: Big, sometimes secret, money can cost them their jobs. Congressman Tim Holden (D-PA), who is facing a strong challenge from the left in his primary election next week, is also facing a barrage
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