Tag: Campaign Finance

Top 10 expenses that have plunged presidential campaigns into debt

Brad Crate · December 8, 2015 12:01 am

Hillary Clinton's proposed $275 billion infrastructure plan includes provisions to spend big on passenger trains and railways, which could include Wayne Rogers' ambitious magnetic levitation train. (AP Photo)

This Clinton fundraiser would make millions from her infrastructure plan

Sarah Bedford · December 7, 2015 6:59 pm

Tea Partiers for McCain-Feingold

Jim Swift · December 4, 2015 5:30 pm

Jeb Bush's Right to Rise super political action committee has spent $28.4 million. (Image courtesy screenshot)

2016 candidates are burning through millions on ads

Gabby Morrongiello · December 2, 2015 5:55 pm

Hillary Clinton "will be stumping in Omaha on Dec. 16, with the help of famed Omaha investor Warren Buffett," according to the Omaha World Herald. (AP file photo/Paul Sakuma)

Beltway Confidential

Politically connected billionaire financier to campaign for politically connected multimillionaire candidate

Timothy P. Carney · November 30, 2015 4:56 pm

He noted, for example, that conservatives want to end the individual and corporate insurance mandates. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Karl Rove moves to bankroll Ben Carson

Rudy Takala · November 28, 2015 7:56 pm

How many Thanksgiving dinners could the current presidential candidates, like Donald Trump, supply with the funds their campaigns have raised? (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Here’s how many Thanksgiving meals candidates could buy

Gabby Morrongiello · November 26, 2015 7:56 pm

A watchdog group is suing the FEC to re-open an investigation into the national finance chair for Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential bid. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Ethics group sues to reopen probe into Rubio campaign lawyer

Susan Ferrechio · November 23, 2015 6:58 pm

Christine O’Donnell, who’s not a witch, calls FEC probe a ‘witch hunt’

Al Weaver · November 20, 2015 8:16 pm

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus made the case that the GOP has become a diverse party built on the values of equality and opportunity.Â Â (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)

RNC hauls in $8.7 million in October

Gabby Morrongiello · November 20, 2015 3:19 pm

"The national security of the American people demands that the Congress swiftly extinguish any programs that might allow an ISIS terrorist to infiltrate the United States disguised as a refugee or migrant,"Â Republican presidential candidate Ben CarsonÂ said. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Beltway Confidential

Ben Carson to Congress: Don’t let any Syrian refugees into U.S.

Byron York · November 16, 2015 4:11 pm

Jeb Bush has bought his struggling presidential campaign more time, even as Marco Rubio threatens to siphon off the financing that is the lifeblood of his 2016 aspirations. (AP Photos)

Bush donors eye Rubio

David M. Drucker · November 15, 2015 5:01 am