IRS Scandal Could Blunt Potency Of Campaign Finance Reform
In wake of IRS targeting of conservative activists, “I don’t think Republicans have any fresh incentive to revisit” campaign finance reform, a Senate Democratic leadership aide acknowledged.
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Ed Markey Compares Campaign Finance Ruling To Decision Upholding Slavery
“The Dred Scott decision had to be repealed, we have to repeal Citizens United,” Massachusetts Democrat says days after meeting with black clergy.
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Huckabee Letter: Obama Surrounds Himself “With Morally Repugnant Political Whores”
A letter sent by the group Citizens United, over Hucakbee’s signature, says the day Obama was sworn into office is “the day the country started going to pot.” Huckabee demands the letter be “pulled,” while Citizens United denies sending it — and then reversed itself.
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Barack Obama On Campaign Finance Reform
Barack Obama offered fundraisers his blessing today to back a SuperPAC — a move his aides cast as one of necessity. Here the greatest hits of Obama’s attacks on the Citizens United ruling, which helped open the cash floodgates.
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FLASHBACK: Obama Scolds Supreme Court For Citizens United Decision
He told wealthy supporters not to back big money outside groups in 2008, but Obama is now signaling to his donors to back the independent expenditure groups. With Republican groups raking in millions, Obama wants in on some of the action made possible in part by a Supreme Court decision he’s deplored.
