Scott PowersMarch 1, 2021
4min1087
The reform package includes a public financing component.
Tag: campaign finance reform
Scott PowersMarch 1, 2021
Janelle Irwin TaylorFebruary 25, 2021
7min1221
Rice's fundraising prowess often sets the tone for St. Pete politics.
Janelle Irwin TaylorFebruary 11, 2020
10min1060
Some contributor have not filed required foreign influence disclosures.
Janelle Irwin TaylorMarch 25, 2019
6min336
City Council approved the original ordinance in 2017 as a sharp rebuke to Citizens United.
Jacob OglesJanuary 3, 2019
6min482
Sen. Joe Gruters brings his fight against dark money to the Senate. The first-term state lawmaker filed a bill (SB 224) to stop the practice of contributions funneling through multiple political committees, his third attempt since joining the Legislature in 2016. “We have legal laundering of campaign contributions through a system so nobody can see […]
Guest AuthorNovember 13, 2018
8min303
When it’s all said and done, America will spend roughly $3 billion on Thanksgiving dinners this year — 50 percent of it on turkeys alone. That’s a whole lot of white meat and cranberry sauce — not to mention food comas. The $3 billion doesn’t even account for the billions more spent on Thanksgiving-themed advertising or the many […]
A.G. GancarskiDecember 12, 2017
3min345
A loophole in state law that allows the governor and cabinet to fundraise during the Legislative Session could close if a House bill passes. Dania Beach Democratic Rep. Evan Jenne filed HB 707 Tuesday, which would put the kibosh on executive branch members soliciting or accepting contributions during Session, either for one’s own campaign, one’s own […]
Danny McAuliffeDecember 6, 2017
6min228
Two Sarasota Republicans are attempting to pass legislation that would prevent political committees and electioneering communications organizations from donating to each other, touting it as a proposal that would end dark money in state politics. While state Rep. Joe Gruters’ HB 43 and Sen. Greg Steube’s SB 122 do not address dark money in issue advocacy spending, […]
Ryan RayMay 17, 2016
3min281
U.S Rep. David Jolly‘s quixotic “Stop Act” proposal to bar sitting members of Congress from raising money on the job may have gotten him in hot water with some in his party, but it also seems to have won him some admirers in the press. The plan at least “deserves a look,” writes Dana Milbank of the […]
Martin DyckmanApril 22, 2016
8min530
That the world is round has been established fact and common knowledge since ancient Greece, when the mathematician Eratosthenes (276-194 BCE) calculated its girth with remarkable accuracy. But even today there is a Flat Earth Society, reincarnated in 2004, which couches stupendous disbelief in the incongruously modern accoutrement of a website. A 2009 Huffington Science […]