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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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“Thanks to Citizens United, my money can talk for me!” Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert has probably done more to expose and explain America’s ridiculous post-Citizens United campaign finance laws than anyone else in the media. Last year, he erected his own Super PAC, called “Americans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow,” using it to shamelessly beg
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Today, Rick Santorum suspended his campaign for the presidency. As USA Today notes, the former senator dropped his bid only two weeks before the Pennsylvania primary, where polls indicated he would lose his home state to Mitt Romney. What happened? Simply put, Santorum could not withstand the wall of Wall Street money raised by Romney.
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Mitt Romney announced yesterday that Ed Gillespie, a corporate lobbyist and former Republican Party chair, will become his senior advisor. Gillespie joins a kitchen cabinet of other “senior advisors” to the Romney campaign who double as influence peddlers. But in Gillespie’s case, he no longer discloses the names of his clients, which raises the question:
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It’s not just NASCAR.  Mitt Romney’s “great friends” tend to be owners of things, owners who can make large contributions to his campaign and associated Super PAC. Large donations are troublesome because they suggest the donor will have outsized influence on the politician if elected. It’s more troublesome when these great friends own businesses that
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As Democrats rejoice over the sagging Mitt Romney campaign in Michigan, a leading DC influence firm staffed by ex-Clinton officials has quietly orchestrated a media effort that appears designed to defend the beleaguered GOP establishment candidate as he goes into Tuesday’s primary. Two days ago, the Private Equity Growth Capital Council (PEGCC), a lobbying association for private
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