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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: Government, Discrimination, U.S. Military, U.S. Congress, Los Angeles Clippers
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Paying for Obama's party
Getting elected president costs a lot of money, and so does being inaugurated. In 2009, President Obama's inaugural committee spent $45 million to kick off his first term. Even with scaled-back festivities (two balls instead of 10), this year's...
Tags: Political Fundraising, U.S. Congress, George W. Bush, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Political Fundraising, Mitt Romney, David Axelrod, Parties and Movements, George Washington
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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... -
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.... -
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: Internal Revenue Service, Lobbying, Political Fundraising, Charity, General Electric Company
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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: Lobbying, Mitt Romney, Arts and Culture, Gun Control, Allergies
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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: Electronics, Mitt Romney, Tennessee Valley Authority, Justice System, Services and Shopping
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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: Charity, Political Fundraising, White House, Sheldon Adelson, Rick Santorum
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Democrats give special interests a role at convention
WASHINGTON — As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama vowed to squelch the role of special interests in financing the party conventions — so he barred corporations and lobbyists from contributing money to this year's national convention in...
Tags: Lobbying, Charity, Political Fundraising, Joe Biden, White House
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Billionaires keep pouring millions into 'super PACs'
Billionaire political patrons filled the coffers of the presidential "super PACs" last month, spotlighting once again the enormous influence a tiny cadre of wealthy donors is having on the 2012 race. The biggest donations came from casino magnate Sheldon...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Charity, Mitt Romney, Parties and Movements, Sheldon Adelson
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