Citizens United
Prominent Jewish Republicans flew to Israel last weekend to join presidential candidate Mitt Romney on his overseas trip. Among them were casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam.
The Adelsons were in the audience Sunday when Romney gave a policy speech in Jerusaleum. And at a...
08/03/2012
News/Resource
Adam Lioz was on NPR's "All Things Considered" with Peter Overby to discuss the growing role of "dark money" in elections. He said that "of all the money spent on presidential ads so far, more than half of it has been from these dark money groups."
The full report: Million-Dollar Megaphones:...
08/03/2012
Audio
A top concern raised by critics of the Supreme Court's 2010Citizens United decision was that it would unleash a torrent of poorly disclosed, if disclosed at all, spending by the superwealthy. Evidence continues to mount that's precisely what's happening.
A few people with a lot of money are...
08/02/2012
News/Resource
Although each major party presidential candidate will likely break previous fundraising records, the big story of the 2012 election has been the role of Super PACs, nonprofits and outside spending generally.
Demos and U.S. PIRG Education Fund analysis of Federal Election Commission (FEC) data and...
08/02/2012
Publication
A new study by several public policy groups indicates that half of outside spending is from groups that don't reveal their donors. According to the data, the top five "dark money" groups spent just over $53 million on TV ads for the presidential race. But because of specific tax codes related to...
08/02/2012
News/Resource
It’s no secret that some very rich people support the super PACs and other groups that have inundated the 2012 campaign with unlimited sums of cash. But a study to be released Thursday details the extent to which this kind of donating is the sport of the One Percent.
Just 47 people...
08/02/2012
News/Resource
The top five outside spending organizations were responsible for 58.5 percent of reported outside spending thus far in the 2012 cycle.
08/01/2012
Data Byte
Of the spending reported to the FEC, $12.7 million, or 7.6 percent was secret spending, not traceable to an original source.
08/01/2012
Data Byte
We define “outside spending” here as spending intended to influence a federal election that is not conducted by or coordinated with a candidate for federal office.10 The three components of such spending are “independent expenditures,” “electioneering communications,” and “issue advocacy” that is...
08/01/2012
Data Byte
An “electioneering communication” is any broadcast, cable or satellite communication that refers to a clearly identified federal candidate; is publicly distributed by a television station, radio station, cable television system or satellite system for a fee; and is distributed...
08/01/2012
Data Byte
