A Democratic group is under sharp criticism for controversial online messages about Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife.
For months, the liberal super PAC Progress Kentucky has attacked McConnell and held demonstrations at his offices and home.
Recently, the group turned its attention to McConnell’s wife, former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, with a focus on her race.
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German soldiers and missiles seem likely to be posted to Turkey’s border with Syria soon.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Saturday that government officials were discussing whether a parliamentary mandate would be needed to send the 170 soldiers which would be needed to staff two Patriot missile units as part of a NATO mission.
The Turkish government said ten days ago it wanted the air defence missiles for its border with Syria, where rockets [...]
by Chriss Street, Testosterone Pit.com:
Republican Party insiders would love to blame their election losses on emerging demographic voting patterns, which result in voting “based on who you are, not where you live or how well each campaign has articulated its case.” This excuse does provide cover for Karl Rove’s American Crossroads PAC to defend why their $103 million in television ads got only a 1.29% return on its investment. But as Ron Paul eloquently [...]
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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban caught wind of Trump’s offer and decided to lay-out his own challenge but this one was for the Donald.
Cuban during an interview on the local Dallas Fox affiliate presented this offer to Mr. Trump: if he shaved off his trademark hair, he would give one million dollars to the charity of Trump’s choice:
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http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2012/11/03/mark-cuban-offers-donald-trump-one-million-dollars-for-charity-to-shave-his-head/
Colbert also offered Trump an opportunity to help a charity:
“Colbert said he would [...]
Facebook Flags PAC’s Obama-Benghazi Meme Post, Threatens Account Closure
A political action committee called the Special Operations Speaks sought to capitalize on allegations that the White House issued orders to “stand down” when U.S. Libyan Ambassador Christopher Stephens placed multiple requests for military back-up by creating a meme they shared on Facebook.
Within 24 hours, their image had garnered 30,000 shares and more than 23,000 likes, but it had also called to [...]
Over the weekend, Facebook took down a message by the Special Operations Speaks PAC (SOS) which highlighted the fact that Obama denied backup to the forces being overrun in Benghazi.
The message was contained in a meme which demonstrated how Obama had relied on the SEALS when he was ready to let them get Osama bin Laden, and how he had turned around and denied them when they called for backup [...]
Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood says “when someone doesn’t get the job done, you gotta hold them accountable” in a new ad from conservative super PAC American Crossroads. Eastwood famously endorsed Mitt Romney earlier this year at the Republican National Convention with an unconventional address. Watch the more serious 30-second spot below:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/clint-eastwood-obamas-second-term-would-be-rerun-first_657325.html
Super PAC Tea Party Victory Fund is using the “Obama Phone” lady in a new Ohio swing-state aimed ad.
The pitch for the video, which asks donors for help in spreading the video in the state, is written by the Fund’s chairman Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s former secretary of state, via SLATE:
http://nation.foxnews.com/tea-party/2012/10/15/tea-party-drops-hardcore-ad-starring-obama-phone-lady
(CNN) - He’s not running for office. He’s not part of a super PAC. He’s not lobbying for or against any ballot measures.
But billionaire Thomas Peterffy is spending millions on television ads this election season with one cautionary message: Avoid socialism.
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“I grew up in a socialist country and I have seen what [...]
Bill Maher, a major donor to Barack Obama’s super PAC, blasted the president’s debate performance on his HBO show last night:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/big-super-pac-donor-obama-looks-he-took-my-million-and-spent-it-all-weed_653844.html
Democratic heavyweight George Soros keeps inching his way back into partisan politics.
The latest evidence: Mr. Soros donated $100,000 in August to a super PAC created to help Democrats win control of the House in the November election.
The contribution, tucked into a fundraising report released late Thursday night, is the latest evidence that Mr. Soros’s self-imposed hiatus from election politics may be coming to an end after nearly a decade.
What Mr. Soros does [...]
A Mitt Romney ad blasting President Barack Obama for the spot that linked the Republican to a woman’s cancer death is the only ad so far this cycle to hurt the president among independent voters, according to a new study.
Romney’s “America Deserves Better” ad — which attacks the president for the pro-Obama super PAC commercial that suggests Romney played a part in a woman’s death from cancer after her husband [...]
The host of HBO”s “Real Time,” which returns from its summer hiatus tonight, has found himself, his comedy and his opinions in the spotlight more than ever before, thanks, in part, to having inserted himself into the political process in a major way. In February, Maher contributed $1 million to Priorities USA Action, a super PAC supportive of President Barack Obama’s reelection. As a result, he’s been billed as a campaign operative [...]
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Conservative black U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Palm Beach Gardens, says an ad that depicts him punching white women plays on racial stereotypes and would make liberals “apoplectic” if a Republican ran it against a black Democrat.
While Sarah Palin and Herman Cain joined the West campaign in ratcheting up criticism of the ad on Friday, an NAACP official said he didn’t find the 30-second spot to be racially offensive. And [...]
Weighing in on the controversial “cancer ad,” Sarah Palin is accusing members of the press of “prostituting” themselves by failing to point out alleged collaboration between President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and a super PAC backing his reelection.
“Some of these reporters who know the truth about this situation because they were in the room, in the press conference, or teleconference room listening to this — I think you said it [...]
This week, the friends of Barack Obama introduced into the political battle of 2012 the moral equivalent of poison gas.
In an ad produced by the super PAC Priorities USA, Mitt Romney is charged with moral, if not material, complicity in the cancer death of the wife of a Missouri steelworker.
Speaking straight into the camera, Joe Soptic, 62, charges Romney with coldly shutting down the plant where he worked and cutting [...]
Today, two top Obama campaign officials fibbed on national television, explaining that they didn’t know about the case of Joe Soptic, a former employee of GST Steel who appeared in an ad by an Obama-associated Super PAC, Priorities USA Action. That ad controversially – and falsely – claimed that Bain Capital’s shutdown of GST Steel caused Soptic to lose his health insurance, his wife to lose her health insurance, and [...]
A new ad from a super PAC supporting President Obama ties former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to a family’s loss of health insurance and a woman’s subsequent death from cancer.
It’s the fourth hard-hitting ad from Priorities USA Action that focuses on former workers at companies closed by Romney’s former private equity firm, Bain Capital.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/priorities-ad-ties-mitt-romney-to-cancer-death/2012/08/07/d723d8c0-e084-11e1-8fc5-a7dcf1fc161d_blog.html
Today, Ryan Zinke, an ex-Navy SEAL and Montana State Senator, announced the launch of Special Operations for America, a political action committee dedicated to “the election of Mitt Romney and like-minded candidates.”
“Navy SEAL’s, Special Operations Personnel and Veteran’s across America have been outraged since Barack Obama conveniently took credit for killing Osama Bin Laden for political gain,” a statement announcing the launch of SOFA said. “The active duty military has no [...]
It will interesting to note the correlations between amounts pledged and political action after the 2012 election. According to the first chart below, can we expect the Finance, Insurance & Real Estate sectors to be well taken care of perhaps?
2012 Presidential Contributions – By Sector
Agribusiness
$4,044,131
$832,218
$3,193,513
Communications/Electronics
$12,995,947
$8,658,052
$4,310,250
Construction
$6,734,225
$1,671,094
$5,046,031
Defense
$937,824
$351,922
$584,652
Energy & Natural Resources
$6,730,077
$991,618
$5,716,459
Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
$41,236,631
$10,074,007
$31,107,559
Health
$14,619,058
$6,389,259
$8,201,794
Lawyers & Lobbyists
$21,011,927
$12,586,198
$8,412,529
Transportation
$3,465,872
$568,306
$2,894,416
Misc Business
$25,428,790
$9,890,991
$15,452,505
Labor
$76,816
$71,356
$5,460
Ideological/Single-Issue
$3,141,338
$554,532
$2,586,806
Other
$63,790,161
$33,985,425
$29,621,685
Presidential Industry Group Totals, 2011-2012
Rank
Sector
Amount
Dems
Repubs
To DEMS To REPUBS
1
Finance/Insur/RealEst
$298,910,163
30.6%
48.9%
2
Other
$212,559,836
51.3%
41.9%
3
Misc Business
$194,198,190
32.3%
41.2%
4
Lawyers & Lobbyists
$130,201,920
65.1%
30.7%
5
Health
$116,194,309
36.9%
44.5%
6
Ideology/Single-Issue
$102,889,573
48.6%
44.5%
7
Communic/Electronics
$87,514,353
52.9%
29.6%
8
Energy/Nat Resource
$66,428,838
18.6%
63.4%
9
Construction
$54,280,646
24.5%
54.1%
10
Labor
$52,766,843
56.3%
7.1%
11
Agribusiness
$40,202,777
27.8%
67.4%
12
Transportation
$35,557,147
25.0%
68.2%
13
Defense
$15,569,517
40.0%
59.6%
2012 Presidential Contributions – Top PAC’s
Operating [...]
The star of a pro-Obama super PAC ad is speaking out against … President Barack Obama.
“I could really care less about Obama,” Donnie Box says of President Obama, according to In These Times. “I think Obama is a jerk, a pantywaist, a lightweight, a blowhard. He hasn’t done a goddamn thing that he said he would do. When he had a Democratic Senate and Democratic Congress, he didn’t do a damn thing. [...]
Israel and the US are set to hold their largest ever joint military exercise in October, featuring thousands of soldiers and advanced anti-missile defense systems, and simulating simultaneous fire from Iran and Syria.
News of the drill comes amid ongoing violence in Syria, and with Israel and the US closely discussing the means to thwart Iran’s nuclear drive. The commander of the 3rd Air Force, Lt.-Gen.Craig A. Franklin, on a recent [...]
Sick and tired of the United States looking like a “third world country” and outsiders coming here to “suck the blood out of this country,” quirky developer and TV personality Donald Trump is eyeing a new super PAC to help defeat President Obama.
Presumably, the super PAC would also act to help Mitt Romney, who Trump has endorsed. Money shouldn’t be an issue for the wealthy casino, golf course, resort and [...]
WASHINGTON — A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away
Timed to upend the Democratic National Convention in September, the plan would “do exactly what John McCain would not let us do,” the strategists wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com …
Bill Maher, the largest donor to President Obama’s super PAC, called Mormonism a “cult” on his HBO show last night, and said that donating money to that religion doesn’t count as charity because it’s “bulls—.”
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Paul Singer, Dan Loeb and Cliff Asness — three hedge fund managers and major players in donor circles — each cut six-figure checks toward the landmark effort to legalize gay marriage in New York.
Singer, the intensely-private head of Elliott Associates, has been especially active in donating to groups aimed at legalizing gay marriage in different states over the last five years, concurrent with his rise as one of the Republican [...]
He also refuses to show Americans his returns from earlier than 2010. Clearly he is hiding
something he thinks will cost him the election.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio…y.html?hpid=z2
Marc A. Thiessen
Opinion Writer
Romney is walking into Obama’s ‘secrecy’ attack
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By Marc A. Thiessen, Monday, April 16, 12:25 PM
Mitt Romney handed President Obama a political gift this weekend, when his campaign announced that he would not file his tax return on time. Romney made the announcement at [...]
Foster Friess, the retired investor who spent nearly $1.7 million boosting Rick Santorum’s presidential run, is ready to help Mitt Romney.
“I’m obviously going to be of help in whatever way I can,” Friess told POLITICO Tuesday afternoon, hours after Santorum suspended his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, cementing Romney’s status as the party’s presumptive nominee.
Friess, who was in Washington to accept an award from the Horatio Alger Association, said he had yet [...]
By KEACH HAGEY |
3/13/12 10:50 PM EDT
David Axelrod will not be appearing as a guest on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” despite reports last week that he was scheduled to do the show in the next few weeks.
“He’s not scheduled to go on at this time,” said Ben LaBolt, the press secretary for President Obama’s reelection campaign.
(Also on POLITICO: Limbaugh laughs at Dems: “They thought I was finished”)
Maher, who donated $1 million [...]
Money may not be buying Mitt Romney much Republican love, but it’s going a long way toward helping him buy the next best thing: endorsements in the GOP primaries.
Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC and its affiliates states have lavished close to $1.3 million in campaign donations to federal, state and local GOP politicians, almost all since 2010. His recipients include officials in the major upcoming primary states of New [...]
Minuteman PAC
February 28, 2012
During a discussion panel on voter identification (ID) laws held at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 17, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), let it be known that he equates voter ID laws, or proof of citizenship laws, with Jim Crow laws that if passed will cause America to “step backward toward another dark time in our history.” Lewis also alleged that he did not know of any cases of illegal [...]
#1 Sheldon Adelson and members of his family have already given more than $10 million to Winning Our Future – the Super PAC that is promoting Newt Gingrich.
$10 million dollars sounds like a lot of money, but a recent CNN article put these donations into perspective….
Recent estimates peg his net worth at around $20 billion. That means his $10 million donation was exactly one twentieth of one percent of his net worth. Yes, 0.05%.
That would [...]
Sheldon Adelson plays as stubbornly in politics as he does in business. So the criticisms that he’s trying to personally buy the presidential election for Newt Gingrich are met with a roll of the eyes. “Those people are either jealous or professional critics,” Adelson tells me during his first interview since he and his wife began funneling $11 million, with another $10 million injection widely expected, into the former speaker’s [...]
Mitt Romney is getting some heavy air support in Michigan — the state where he was born and raised — as the “super PAC” supporting him invests almost $500,000 on television ads there.
According to someone who tracks Republican media spending, Restore Our Future has committed just over $470,000 for commercials starting Tuesday and set to run through Feb. 20. That marks the group’s largest purchase yet in Michigan, where it [...]
Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson plans to give the pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC Winning Our Future another $5 million, Jon Ralston reports. That money will help the super PAC compete against the pro-Mitt Romney Restore Our Future PAC, which has already spent $4.4 million hammering Gingrich in Florida. Winning Our Future has yet to spend a dime in Florida, according toProPublica’s tally.
Ralston reports in the Las Vegas Sun:
Gondolier Numero Uno Sheldon Adelson, through his wife, will give Newt Gingrich’s SuperPAC another [...]
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