Showing posts with label Open Secrets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Open Secrets. Show all posts
Friday, December 9, 2022

Why Sam Bankman-Fried of Alameda/FTX isn't in jail already

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  Data here .
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Your next opportunity to pick a parasite is little more than two months away

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In a truly representative republic which reflected the intent of the Founders, America would have 100 senators picked by the state legis...
Sunday, October 1, 2017

Representation as performance art: 49% of political campaign expenditures in 2016 went to media

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12.1% went to fundraising, 11.2% to salaries, 9.4% to administrative costs, 6.7% to campaign expenses and 5.2% to strategy and research. $...
Friday, September 29, 2017

Average candidate cost to win a Senate race in 2016 was $10.4 million, $1.3 million to win a House race

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At least according to the story here . The figure nearly doubles when factoring in outside money for winning Senate seats. Apparently ...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Marlene Ricketts of Chicago Cubs/TD Ameritrade fame is funding #NeverTrumper Erick Erickson, spending nearly $15 million so far against Trump

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Reported here  with FEC documentation here : So it perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise to find out that Erick Erickson’s media ventur...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Top 47 organization contributors in politics, mostly unions, gave $2.4 billion and 75% of that to Democrats

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The Kochs come in 48th, giving just $27 million to Republicans. When it comes to money in politics from organizations as opposed to ...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Pelosi Backs Off Romney Tax Returns. Does She Fear Having To Release Her Own?

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She's rich as Croesus, after all. Her financial disclosure for 2010 makes her nearly as rich as Romney. Roll Call reports here that on...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Instead of 10,267 US Representatives We Had 12,592 Lobbyists in 2011

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If we followed the US Constitution our House of Representatives would have 10,267 elected representatives today. Republicans and Democrats p...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

Taxpayer-Insured Commercial Banks Continue To Write CDS in $Trillions

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Protest that you numbskulls. These banks' political contributions are going to your man in The White House. Gretchen Morgenson has the ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

House Democrats' Insider Trading Easily Bests Republican Track Record

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According to opensecrets.org, as reported here : Despite the GOP’s reputation as the party of the rich, House Republicans fared worse than t...