Tag: Karl Rove
Team Udall goes meta
After weeks of increasingly high-pitched campaign ad volleying in the Colorado senate race between incumbent Mark Udall and Congressman Cory Gardner, Team Udall this...
Gardner’s awkward scheduling priorities
During the floods and the government shutdown he was hobnobbing with Karl Rove and his money men. During the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe it was lobbyists for British Petroleum.
Mucho dinero pours into swing-state Colorado for TV ads
OF the millions of dollars candidates, party committees and outside groups have spent on TV air time in Colorado, not one dime has been...
Wiretap: House Republicans determined to keep losing and losing on gay...
How will they react to a rule set to come today from the labor department stating that any employee can take leave from work to care for a same-sex spouse no matter whether or not they "live in a state that recognizes their marital status"?
Wiretap: Udall rails against ‘culture of misinformation’ on NSA spying
Udall's letter accused the administration of trying to "justify" now demonstrably false statements it made to the Supreme Court in a 2012 case involving NSA surveillance.
Documents suggest Rove, Norquist groups played beyond campaign finance limits
On its 2012 tax return, GOP strategist Karl Rove's dark money behemoth Crossroads GPS justified its status as a tax-exempt social welfare group in part by citing its grants of $35 million to other similarly aligned nonprofits.
AUDIO: NOM pledges to make Starbucks “pay” for support of marriage...
National Organization for Marriage is pledging to continue its efforts to ensure that companies that back same-sex marriage pay a “price” in Middle Eastern countries that are hostile to gay rights.
Ugly independent political spending in Colorado tripled in the last election...
It will come as no surprise to Coloradans force-fed a fire-hose stream of ugly and untrustworthy campaign election material over the last two years that independent spending-- spending directly tied to no candidate and mostly free of accountability-- more than tripled in the state from 2008 to 2010. This according to a recent report released by watchdog group Follow the Money, which singles out Colorado for study. The authors report that, although the state has relatively strong disclosure laws, larger changes in campaign finance rules have let loose here as everywhere in the country a storm of money and a sea of roiling paperwork that can cover over as much as it reveals.
Poll: Perry already leading among Colorado Republican voters
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced he was running for president on Saturday but Colorado Republicans have been eagerly looking forward to the news, according to Public Policy Polling. Perry tied long-running candidate Mitt Romney for the top spot among Colorado GOP voters surveyed by PPP the first week of August. Perry polled way out in front of controversial Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who won a much-watched Iowa straw poll last week, rivaling Romney's status as front runner.
VIDEO: Rove’s American Crossroads running anti-Obama ads in swing states
American Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, a 501(c)(4) group conceived by former Senior Bush Advisor Karl Rove and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie, is running ads this week criticizing President Obama’s handling of the economy in New Mexico and other swing states.