Relaxing disclosure rules would benefit groups like Minnesota for Marriage, which has vowed not to comply with some campaign finance guidelines as they advocate for a constitutional gay marriage ban,
US Bancorp ranked very high for disclosure while 3M, which has participated in numerous state ballot measures and doesn’t disclose many political transactions, ranked near the bottom.
Under current FEC rules, a traditional PAC is allowed to have a separate segregated account for unlimited contributions if the funds are spent on independent expenditures — making it a so-called hybrid committee.
The Republican Party of Minnesota carried a debt twice as large as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s.
Rep. Erik Paulsen saw a steep increase in donations from venture capitalists with an interest in health care after he testified to Congress in June that FDA processes should be streamlined, according to the New York Times.
Catholics across the political spectrum called the Archdiocese’s decision to engage on the issue of same-sex marriage “unusual.”
The video released by the group, which is not required to disclose its donors, depicts Pres. Barack Obama and Iowa U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell as peas in a pod.
Johnson, a former Clinton staffer, is an example of the White House’s “revolving door” with former lobbyists.
Medical device companies and executives have repaid Paulsen’s “tireless support” of their industry with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions.
Klobuchar took in almost $1 million in the last financial quarter.
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