Political Action Committees

Corporate Campaign Spending: The Bucks Stop Where?

In a game-changing decision handed down on Jan. 22, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for corporations big and small to pump as much money as they want into election advertising that explicitly promotes or attacks individual political candidates and issues. The ruling — framed in First Amendment terms holding that corporations have the same rights as individuals

January 2010 by Bill Hogan 0

Investigative, Politics

The Senate’s Secret Slush Funds

THIRTY-ONE YEARS AGO, A SECRET SLUSH FUND nearly ended the public career of Richard M. Nixon. The fund — which contained $18,235 — had been spent to supplement Nixon’s Senate allowances and to advance his national political prospects. Nixon, of course, salvaged his spot as the 1952 Republican vice presidential nominee by making one of the most famous political

June 1983 by Bill Hogan 0

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