WEST CHESTER, Ohio — Just outside Cincinnati, tucked among insurance agencies, hair salons and a yoga studio, is the nexus of one of the nation’s most mysterious networks pouring secret money into elections. “Langdon Law LLC Political, Election Nonprofit and Constitutional Law,” reads its small sign, which faces the building’s parking lot rather than the […]
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PAC profile: Citizens for a Working America PAC
Transparency grade: PD Read how we came up with this grade. Citizens for a Working America: Top donors* 1. New Models – $292,000 2. Citizens for a Working America, Inc. – $163,000 3. Citizens for Bunning, campaign committee of former Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. – $100,000 4. Steven Tullman, Ceptaris Theraputics, Inc. – $65,000 5. Mid-Vol […]
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Lobbyists bankrolling politics
More than 1,300 registered lobbyists have given slightly more than $1.8 million to President George W. Bush over the last six years, according to a Center for Public Integrity study comparing the donations of all registered lobbyists from 1998 through March 2004. Sen. John Kerry received $520,000 from 442 lobbyists during the same period. Such […]
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Overnight guests at governor’s mansion added $2.2 million to Bush campaign
Sixty of George W. Bush’s overnight guests at the Texas Governor’s Mansion have collectively given and raised more than $2.2 million to further Bush’s political career, an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity shows. At least 15 of Bush’s guests are members of Bush’s elite team of presidential fund-raisers, the $100,000-plus “Pioneers,” according to […]
