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Canadian-owned firms are funding U.S. election campaigns

February 18, 2012
Toronto Globe & Mail
STEVE RENNIE
 
Political action committees affiliated with companies owned by Canadian corporations but based in the United States are pouring money

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PAC sues over state's campaign finance law: Group says limits unconstitutional in wake of Supreme Court decision

February 15, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By Monique Garcia


An abortion rights group that funneled more than $400,000 to help elect Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn filed a federal lawsuit T

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PAC sues over state's campaign finance law: Group says limits unconstitutional in wake of Supreme Court decision

February 15, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By Monique Garcia


An abortion rights group that funneled more than $400,000 to help elect Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn filed a federal lawsuit T

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'Me' beats 'us': Illinois' new limits on campaign cash likely going away

February 15, 2012
Crain's Chicago Business
I found great irony — and tragedy — in the fact that, on the same day that Rod Blagojevich was told where he will serve his prison sentence for corruption, perhaps the most crucial reform enacted following his disgraceful tenure as governor was knee-capp

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Jackson: Asking fundraiser to buy plane ticket for woman did not violate ethics rules

February 7, 2011
Chicago Tribune

Congressman defends actions amid probe linked to Blagojevich scandal

By Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune reporter

U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said Monday that he did not violate House ethics rules when he had a longtime friend and fundraiser buy a plane ticket for a woman who had a secret relationship with the congressman.

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Obama campaign returning funds tied to Mexican fugitive

February 7, 2012
Chicago Tribune

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is returning more than $200,000 in donations from the family of a fugitive casino magnate linked to violence and corruption in Mexico who has been seeking a pardon, Obama's campaign confirmed on Tuesday.

"More than 1.3 million Americans have donated to the campaign and we constantly review those contributions for any issues," Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said in an email after aNew York Times report on the decision appeared late on Monday.

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Obama Yields in Marshaling of ‘Super PAC’

February 6, 2012
New York Times

By JEFF ZELENY and JIM RUTENBERG

WASHINGTON — President Obama is signaling to wealthy Democratic donors that he wants them to start contributing to an outside group supporting his re-election, reversing a long-held position as he confronts a deep financial disadvantage on a vital front in the campaign.

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The Citizens United catastrophe

February 5, 2012
Washington Post
By E.J. Dionne Jr.,

We have seen the world created by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and it doesn’t work.

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Judicial candidate making fundraising an issue

January 22, 2012
Peoria Journal Star

By JOHN SHARP and CHRIS KAERGARD

   

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