Dark money has a white knight: the MayDay Political Action Committee. LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman just made a $1M donation to the organization who's end goal is self-annihilation.
Dark money has a white knight: the MayDay Political Action Committee. LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman just made a $1M donation to the organization who's end goal is self-annihilation.
Dark money has a white knight: the MayDay Political Action Committee. LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman just made a $1M donation to the organization who's end goal is self-annihilation.
The embarrassing release of sensitive documents from the Republican Governors Association chronicles the ridiculous amounts of money they've been receiving from corporate benefactors since Citizens United allowed unlimited rivers of money to flow into American politics.
Following Superstorm Sandy, donors gave $312 million to the American Red Cross. How did the aid organization spend that money? A year and a half after the storm, it's surprisingly difficult to get a detailed answer.
CPAC 2014, the Conservative Political Action Conference, kicked off Wednesday with some real doozies. Chris Christie was definitely the star of the show. The New Jersey governor claimed that there is no income inequality problem in the US today, as well as saying that the Republicans are the real party of tolerance (?!?).
A new interactive map shows an influx of out-of-state donations coming Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's way since he enacted his landmark, anti-union piece of legislation, Act 10, in February of 2011.
The Supreme Court may possibly allow even more unfettered donations into campaigns. Citizens United, the landmark case ruling that corporations could act as people when donating money, was just the beginning. Individuals may soon be able to inject as much money as they'd like into elections, thereby giving even more sway to special interests.
