On AlterNet: campaign finance
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "campaign finance"
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. August 7, 2008.
"The tenor of this race, aided by events, has changed. McCain is on the defensive."
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. July 24, 2008.
A loophole in campaign-finance law allows corporations to pour unlimited funding into political conventions.
Linda Feldmann, Christian Science Monitor. June 19, 2008.
The decision makes the senator the first major-party candidate to depart the system for the general election since its inception in 1976.
Jane Hamsher, AlterNet: PEEK. April 14, 2008.
John McCain isn't the ethical campaigner he makes himself out to be.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: Election 2008. March 31, 2008.
Clinton's campaign is trying to keep its financial operation afloat as it hits the next slew of primaries, but this is bad PR any way you look at it.
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. March 26, 2008.
The hypocrisy of the so-called "maverick" violating a law which he championed because it suits his purposes this time around is horrifying.
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. March 24, 2008.
But as Media Matters points out, you'd never know it from reading AP writer Jim Kuhnhenn.
Phoenix Woman, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. February 26, 2008.
Pass the popcorn kiddies. This is going to be good.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: PEEK. February 7, 2008.
What's really astonishing is how much money is needed to run a campaign of this scope. It's obscene.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. January 18, 2008.
There is a simple fix for our ailing healthcare system, and it has the right-wing in a panic.
Raymond Hernandez, Robert Pear, The New York Times. October 29, 2007.
Big Business watches the Republican coalition crack up; shops for Dems.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. April 9, 2007.
The oil industry spills gobs of cash all around Washington, and politicians return the favor with mega-billion dollar thank you notes, then have the gall to pretend that all that money doesn't affect their decision-making.
David Donnelly, Gary Kalman, AlterNet. March 21, 2007.
The campaign finance system is spinning out of control, guzzling the money that should go to solving the real issues facing this country.
Anya Kamenetz, David Donnelly, Courier-Journal. March 2, 2007.
GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was instrumental in the passage of a bankruptcy bill that made it tough for Americans to deal with their debts -- and now the banking and credit card industry is rewarding him handsomely.
Paul Rogat Loeb, AlterNet. December 20, 2006.
How Hillary Clinton pocketed campaign contributions and shortchanged the Democratic Party in the name of personal political power.
David Sirota, TomPaine.com. November 23, 2006.
D.C.'s "culture of corruption" has very little to do with lobbyist gifts and everything to do with the Big Money bribery that is today's campaign finance system.
Ann Friedman, AlterNet: PEEK. November 7, 2006.
A quarter of the funding for the pro-coathanger crowd came from one anonymous source. Now they may be in trouble for violating campaign finance law.
