After the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case this spring, limits on how much corporations can spend on independent expenditures in congressional campaigns have been wholly erased. The same corporations that can spend as much as they want on congressional campaigns are also allowed to keep their contributor lists secret. All that the [...]
Just 53 political corporations spent a whopping $41,622,820.18 in just one week in their effort to directly influence the outcome of the 2010 congressional races. The $41.6 million in independent expenditures by these corporations during the week of October 3-9, 2010 approximately doubles the $21.2 million spent on independent expenditures in the congressional campaigns the [...]
The Supreme Court may have given corporations the green light to spend unlimited amounts on congressional campaigns, but that doesn’t mean candidates must accept the money. Alexi Giannoulias, the winner of yesterday’s Illinois Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Senate, declares on the front page of his website that: Alexi’s campaign doesn’t take money from the [...]
Results of the 2010 congressional primaries in Illinois, and the special primary election in Florida’s 19th district as well.
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