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Menino's Rule
This series explains how Mayor Menino supervised a “building boom that benefited a handful of favored developers and consultants with close ties to him”. Put together, “the six most prolific developers built one out of every four square feet constructed by private developers since 1996”. The mayor violated a pledge not to accept donations by accepting money from these developers, which supported his campaign. Furthermore, he disregarded a city ordinance, which was designed to ensure that these projects benefited city residents.
Tags: Thomas M. Menino; city government; politicians; politics; Zoning Board of Appeals; neighborhood; corruption
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Big Money Slides From WFP To City Campaigns; All In The Family
“The Working Families Party is an increasingly powerful third political party in New York which, due to quirky state election laws, is able to cross-endorse candidates and get involved in other parties’ primaries.” The question that everyone has been asking is how WFP (Working Families Party) finances its extensive operations. The first article reveals this very question. The WFP owned a secretive political consulting company, which uses the same resources as WFP and in apparent opposition to New York City’s campaign finance laws. The second article reveals that WFP not only has two arms, but there are in fact four arms. These four arms show the benefits received by WFP are of a political party, a non-profit, and a for-profit.
Tags: Working Families Party(WFP); New York; Data and Field Services(DFS); Campaigns; Politics; Politicians
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The Guetzloe Files
"A political consultant who illegally spent money affecting Florida elections is exposed after his unpaid storage unit is auctioned off for $10 and given to investigative reporter Tony Pipitone." The broadcasts that resulted led to the consultant indicted on perjury. WKMG-TV also had to fight off an injunction in order to broadcast their stories based off of the files.
Tags: politics; political consultant; injunction; campaigning; campaign funds; Doug Guetzloe
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Huckabee, Morris Keep Lines Open
Politico reporter Jonathan Martin revealed that Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee had received private consultation from Bill Clinton’s strategist Dick Morris.
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Campaign Consultants: The Price of Democracy
A look at the 2003-04 presidential and congressional races reveals the major campaign consultants, "the hired guns who determine how negative, loud and expensive they will be." The investigation found that $1.85 billion went through 600 professional consultants, "more than half of the total spending by presidential candidates, national party committees, general election candidates for Congress and so-called "527" independent political groups."
Tags: Campaigns; consultants; professional campaign consultants
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Siplin Investigation
The investigation centers on State Senator Gary Siplin and his use of 40% of his campaign contributions on a consultant called Success Campaigns that hadn't existed for more than ten years. On further investigation the authors found more inaccuracies within the senators finances and other misconduct.
Tags: State senate; Gary Siplin; Success Campaigns; Florida State Attorney; political fund-raising; consultants; campaign spending
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Family Values
"Los Angeles Times reporters over the last year and a half have documented a particularly insidious new gambit that special interests have devised to gain or increase influence with lawmakers: hiring their relatives and paying them lucrative lobbying or consulting fees. The practice has been used not just by U.S. interests but also by foreign citizens and governments."
Tags: government; lobbyists; contracts; bribery; campaign contributions; Maxine Waters; Curt Weldon; Qatar
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U.S. Rep. Karen McCarthy's Troubling Performance
The Associated Press reveals that five-term congresswoman, Karen McCarthy, has a pattern of skipped votes, high staff turnover and questionable office spending. For years she had missed important votes on the floor and in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. She hired, fired and lost aides at a seemingly dysfunctional rate. Her legislative record shows she passed only one bill in eight and a half years. And she was trying to stick taxpayers with a campaign consultant's bill in violation of House rules. McCarthy announced her retirement one month after AP broke the allegations.
Tags: Congress; Missouri Rep. Karen McCarthy; House Energy and Commerce Committee; taxpayers; House of Representatives; House Administration Committee; legislative record; campaign bill; campaign credit card; travel itinerary; votes; Congressional Observer Publications; Congressional Management Foundation; House spending records; National Conference of State Legislatures; Select Committee on Homeland Security; National Taxpayers Union; campaign consultant; campaign funds; personal spending; House Ethics Committee; Ways and Means Committee
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On Offense. As democrats learn art of skewering foe, Dan Carol is there. He digs up facts to wield when race gets rough, as this one just might. A list of 'generic attacks'
According to the article, "Mr. Carol isn't appearing in prime time at the Democratic convention. He isn't an employee of the Gore campaign or the Democratic National Committee. But as a consultant to the DNC, Democratic congressional campaigns and allied groups, he is part of a cadre of political warriors whose mastery of Information Age weapons is vital to Democrats' push to elect Al Gore and win control of Congress. Using television attack ads, internet sites, satellite interviews to targeted broadcast markets and blast fax and e-mail messages, they will seek to shred Mr. Bush's gauzy slogans by providing documentation that his Texas record and campaign proposals aren't 'compassionate' at all."
Tags: Al Gore; George Bush; politics; election; democrats; republicans; political attacks; consultant; Dan Carol; internet; campaigns; conventions
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The Buying of the Bench
In the thirty-nine states that elect judges at some level, the cost of judicial races is rising at least as fast as that of either Congressional races or presidential campaigns, as candidates for the bench pay for sophisticated ads, polls and consultants.
Tags: Judges; elections; campaign; state courts; campaign contributions