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“…this Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to [...]
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In September I wrote about a scheme hatched by Carl Forti (late of the NRCC and Freedom’s Watch) to circumvent FEC disclosure rules relating to the funding of political message campaigns. Today’s Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court granting corporate entities the right to ‘free speech’ without limitation but with disclosure of any contribution [...]
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I’ve been busy working on a project involving FEC and IRS filings for political action committees and astroturf organizations, and while researching, I fell into the FEC filing for Minority Leader John Boehner’s PAC, The Freedom Project. The Freedom Project is described this way on their website:
The Freedom Project 1) provides direct financial [...]
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