Democrats competing to replace David Wu in Congress offer different perspectives on the Occupy Portland protest.

The filing deadline for a candidate to run in the race against Michele Bachmann is June 5, next year. A successful candidate will need to begin a campaign much sooner than that, considering the political resources Bachmann has gathered together for her presidential campaign.

Dennis Kucinich has yet to make any floor speech even mentioning, much less praising, the occupation protests. Can Kaptur use her support for the occupation protests to convince voters that she will be a better representative of liberal values than Kucinich?

Members of Congress are trying to pretend that they haven’t noticed the anti-corporate protest going on for six days now on the sidewalks of Wall Street, but Green Party congressional candidate Ben Emery is spreading the word.

It’s short sighted for Christie Vilsack to support a plan that would put Social Security in jeopardy, when better choices that don’t put a burden on senior citizens and disabled Americans, exist.

A list of the top Republican recipients of money from the Communist-colluding ConocoPhillips, which spilled huge amounts of crude oil into Bohai Bay this week, and gives its workers a mere pittance compared to its cash hog CEO James Mulva.

The National Republican Congressional Committee made a single independent expenditure of $59,959 today, paying “National Media Research, Planning and Placement” for unspecified “media” services in opposition to the Kate Marshall for Congress campaign. One more independent expenditure like that, and Kate Marshall’s fundraising advantage will be wiped out.

The pro-Republican American Action Network was legally required to report its independent expenditures in the 2010 congressional election within 48 hours, but it didn’t disclose the spending until over 300 days afterwards. The organization’s Board of Directors is filled with representatives of elite financial companies, corporate lawyers and representatives from lobbying firms.

Tom McClintock has taken a quarter of a million dollars from the real estate industry, in a time when one third of the houses on the market are in foreclosure. That questionable source of McClintock’s campaign finance, even taken alone, suggests that Ben Emery’s critique may be right on the money.

The light may be on, but nobody’s home. As the Sunlight Foundation documented with its copy of an intercepted invitation, a fundraising dinner party was scheduled for January 18 2011 in the infamous 446 New Jersey Avenue townhome of anti-immigration and pay-day lender Tim Rupli. The beneficiary: a “3rd & Long” PAC run by Blue [...]