Gary Johnson SuperPAC Launching Huge CNN, Fox Ad Buy
Ad presents Johnson as for "tolerance, free enterprise, and a sane foreign policy" and reportedly cost PurplePAC a million.
Ad presents Johnson as for "tolerance, free enterprise, and a sane foreign policy" and reportedly cost PurplePAC a million.
62 percent of July's $1.6 million take went to consultants; August intake already announced as at least $3 million.
In a time when electoral fantasy beats electoral reality, the FEC wants to bring down the hammer on campaign fun.
It's a record one-day small-donation take for the Libertarian Party.
Trump's shoestring campaign is subsisting on less than half of Clinton's vast fortune, yet the usual voices supporting taxpayer-funded political campaigns have fallen strangely silent.
Law forbidding businesses involved in medical marijuana distribution from giving to candidates in Illinois, or candidates accepting such money, challenged in federal court.
Repurposing his PurplePAC, Crane hopes for seven figures contributions from wealthy libertarians to show Americans they have an option that's "socially tolerant, skeptical of militarism, and for the free market."
"We will offer an attractive alternate to the two flavors of authoritarianism, cronyism, and all-war-all-the-time foreign policies of the other two candidates," Kibbe says.
Can't rely on government to oversee itself.
A book-length critique from longtime Libertarian George Phillies argues the party didn't know the truth about campaign debt, and that Johnson spent too much on staff and not enough on "outreach." Gary Johnson responds.
Investigation has been underway for at least a year.
Federal and state investigators reportedly probing donations by seller of garbage bags.
Corporations influencing politics is awful for liberals, unless the influence benefits their political agenda.
Claims rules against campaign coordination do not apply here.
Examining SCOTUS nominee Merrick Garland's vote in SpeechNow.org v. FEC
If Trump gets the nomination, she's going to need the independent spending.
So much blame for Donald Trump's populism. What about Bernie Sanders'?
Gary Johnson and Austin Petersen speak. Johnson is still waiting for big money that supports small government and the Constitution to look at Trump and come to the Libertarian Party.
Tell us about the dangers of Citizens United again.
NYRoB article details the power couple's dirty-Davos-style fundraising machinery
Sanders thinks a single appointee can get it done in short order, while Clinton relies on unconstitutional reasoning.
Colorado's campaign finance laws are "rife with abuse."
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee thinks more speech makes elections less competitive.
All this money is being spent, yet the "establishment" is very much on the defensive.
Text of likely forthcoming Iowa Rand Paul TV ads paid for by PurplePAC says Paul is only protection against government "that tells us what we can and can't do. That spies on its own citizens."
The FEC claims authority over regulating press coverage of elections.
Justice Kennedy defends his vote in the free speech case.
Prosecution of Benton and another campaign aid began over alleged campaign finance reporting violations.
Campaign finance rules and the politicians and prosecutors who manipulate them are a threat to freedom.
Paul says he and his family are "victimized" by opportunistic prosecution.
Money raised less than half of Ron Paul's 3rd quarter 2007 cash. More signs of trouble for Paul campaign?
But he needs a more libertarian Rand Paul to feel good about asking his friends to give money for him.
If the Harvard law professor can raise $1 million by Labor Day, he'll run for president. His pledge: He'll work to pass one particular law, then resign.
Paul must be himself, be ready for attacks, be substantive, be libertarian, but shouldn't try to make any explosive gestures.
Jesse Benton, John Tate (now running a Rand Paul SuperPAC) charged with "knowingly caus[ing] the concealing, covering up" of campaign finance records.
The complicated political dynamics between rich presidential candidates and poorer ones far predate the 20th century.
Also in Paul money news: Behind in big bucks, Paul likely won't attend big weekend meeting of Koch-associated funders
How a campaign finance investigation became a war on conservative activists
If Citizens United is a problem, so is The New York Times.
Outrage over private prisons are largely a distraction from the wider issues of the prison-industrial complex.