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OPENSECRETS.ORG LAUNCHES SECTION TO FOLLOW THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
Ten months before even the first primary, the candidates for president
are already crisscrossing the country, and much of their travel is to
collect money. After April 15, when the first quarter’s campaign finance
reports are due, we’ll know exactly how successful their fundraising
has been. Until then, OpenSecrets.org has posted a first look at all the
major candidates in the mix for 2008, along with their fundraising for
previous elections and a digest of money-in-politics news related to
the race.
FUNDRAISING WASN’T FOR THE FOREFATHERS:
It’s a scene that George Washington couldn’t possibly have envisioned
in 1789: Presidential candidates entering the race with millions of
dollars in the bank, Hollywood parties bagging $1.3 million for a single
candidate in one night and a campaign season beginning a full two years
before the sitting president leaves office. In fact, the concept of
fundraising itself would have been foreign to the early presidents, who
were part of a political culture in which they, not their backers, were
more often the gift-givers.
PRESIDENTS DAY DELAYS RENEW CALL FOR AIRLINE PASSENGER ‘BILL OF RIGHTS’
As holiday travelers sat on airport tarmacs or were turned away from
canceled flights, proponents of a “bill of rights” for airline passengers
renewed their call for legislation. The idea has been on Congress’s
radar going back several years, but, like those who hoped to fly over this
past holiday weekend, it hasn’t gone anywhere. The delay may have been
influenced by the airlines and unions that would be affected by such
regulation.
- The Center’s 2001 analysis of the issue:
- Campaign finance profile of the airline industry:
- Lobbying profile of the airline industry:
- Campaign finance profile of air transport unions:
- Lobbying profile of air transport unions:
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