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Silver lining on Romney's clouded campaign

Despite the missteps and terrible headlines and campaign infighting afflicting the Mitt Romney campaign, he can at least take comfort in the fact that outside spending favors him by a big margin and Republican voter suppression efforts remain robust.

Minnesota Corporations On Brink Of Winning Legal Right To Secretly Campaign | Alternet

Minnesota Corporations On Brink Of Winning Legal Right To Secretly Campaign | Alternet
"The right of corporations to spend money in campaigns—resurrected under the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling—may have been given a big boost Friday when a federal appeals court ruled in an ongoing suit that Minnesota corporations could independently spend money in campaigns without submitting ongoing reports to state officials.

In contrast, on Monday in another federal appeals court, the Seventh Circuit handling Illinois, that state’s campaign disclosure law was upheld in a similar suit—foreclosing the prospect of secret corporate electioneering in 2012 and beyond. (Each federal appeals court has the final say in its region until the U.S. Supreme Court steps in.)"

How One Hedge Fund Millionaire Is Trying To Buy A Seat In Congress

How One Hedge Fund Millionaire Is Trying To Buy A Seat In Congress: Robert Mercer, the millionaire hedge-fund manager has been a consistent funder of right wing causes. In recent years, the co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies has bankrolled an Islamaphobic effort to stop a Muslim Community Center in New York City, given $1 million each to the pro-Mitt Romney Restore Our Future super PAC and Karl Rove’s American [...]/p

The Romney-Koch Handshake That Network TV Missed | Alternet

The Romney-Koch Handshake That Network TV Missed | Alternet
"When Mitt Romney walked down the aisle toward the stage Thursday night, among the people whose hands he shook was the conservative billionaire and major political donor David Koch. But it was a moment missed by the tens of millions of viewers at home."

GOP Platform Suggests Billionaires Should Be Able To Give Unlimited Donations To Mitt Romney

GOP Platform Suggests Billionaires Should Be Able To Give Unlimited Donations To Mitt Romney: The Republican National Convention Tuesday adopted a party platform that embraces the highly unpopular Citizens United ruling, opposes meaningful campaign finance disclosure, and actually calls for allowing donors to give more money to politicians. In a section entitled “The First Amendment: Speech that is Protected” the platform states: The rights of citizenship do not stop [...]/p