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Crossroads GPS weighs in on 'fiscal cliff'
One of the biggest outside spenders in the 2012 election has turned its focus to the "fiscal cliff" debate. Crossroads GPS, the conservative nonprofit founded in part by GOP strategist Karl Rove, released a new ad Wednesday slamming President Obama's...
Tags: Karl Rove, Satellite and Cable Service, U.S. Congress, AFSCME, Barack Obama
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It's 2013, when dreams may yet come true
New Year's Day is a time for reassessment and renewal — and hoping the next year is an improvement over the messy rat race that was the last one. On that note, The Times has a tradition of reserving this page on this day for our own, often...
Tags: Justice System, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Congress, Interior Policy
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Numbers whiz becomes one-man election clearinghouse
For most Americans, interest in the results of the 2012 presidential campaign ended somewhere around the first election night projections for President Obama and the brief, stunned concession speech delivered by a gobsmacked Mitt Romney. But for a small...
Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Party, Elections, Politics
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Obama will accept corporate cash to pay for inauguration
President Obama will accept corporate contributions to pay for his inauguration in January, a departure from his first inauguration and the 2012 Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C. The decision, first reported by Politico, underscores how the...
Tags: Duke Energy Corporation, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, POLITICO LLC, Elections
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Romney spends big with aides' firms
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSMitt Romney's campaign has directed $134.2 million to political firms with business ties to his senior staff, spotlighting the tightknit nature of his second presidential bid and the staggering sums being spent in this election. Nine firms that are run...Tags: Sales, John Kerry, Economy, Business and Finance, Barack Obama, George Washington
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Sherman files FEC complaint targeting brother of election rival Berman
PolitiCalBrad Sherman is accusing Howard Berman of improperly overpaying his brother, Michael Berman, for campaign services in years when Howard Berman faced little or no reelection opposition. The Sherman campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election... -
Sen. Feinstein starts statewide TV campaign ad
PolitiCalDianne Feinstein has begun airing a TV ad, the first of her re-election campaign. Feinstein challenger Elizabeth Emken is widely viewed as the underdog.... -
Bloomberg's Super-PAC spends $2.35 million to defeat Rep. Baca
PolitiCalNew York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Super-PAC "Independence USA" poured an additional $2.35 million into a television advertising campaign to defeat Democratic Rep. Joe Baca of Rialto. Baca is being challenged by fellow Democrat, state S en. Gloria... -
Sheila Krumholz -- she follows the money
It was a California politico, Jesse Unruh, who nailed the relationship between dough and democracy: "Money is the mother's milk of politics." Where does it come from, and where does it go? Sheila Krumholz makes it her business to tell us. As executive...
Tags: Library of Congress, John Ashcroft , Crime, Law and Justice, Economy, Business and Finance, Upper East Side
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McManus: The NRA has won
Politicians haven't always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans. In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr., Congress — on a bipartisan vote — outlawed guns sales to felons...
Tags: Democratic Party, Tom Foley, Interior Policy, Culture, Dianne Feinstein
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Federal contractors donate to 'super PAC' backing Romney
A "super PAC" that has spent more than $35 million on behalf of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has accepted donations from federal contractors despite a 36-year-old ban against such companies making federal political expenditures.
At least...Tags: Tennessee Valley Authority, U.S. Department of Defense, Democratic Party, Justice System, Science and Technology
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'Super PAC' leaders profit from lack of oversight
The Red White and Blue Fund, a "super PAC" backing the presidential bid of Republican Rick Santorum, paid more than half a million dollars last month to a newly formed direct mail firm.
The owner of that company?
None other than Nick Ryan, a former...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Karl Rove, White House, Charity
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