super PACs
Burton on why Obama's money won; Sweeney on Hillary exceptionalism
"I think we had a measurable impact on this race, and in helping people understand the truth about Mitt Romney's business record in a way that they wouldn't have gotten otherwise, probably," said Bill Burton, one of the founders of Priorities USA, at a panel discussion on Wednesday night. More
Warren Buffett already supports Hillary 2016
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett endorsed the idea of Hillary Clinton for president in 2016, in an interview with CNN Money.
"I hope it's Hillary Clinton," he said when asked if he'd like to see a woman president.
"I like what she believes in and I think she's extraordinarily able, and energetic for that matter, in pushing those beliefs," he said. "I don't see how you could have anybody better qualified." More
Bloomberg super PAC goes big in Florida and California, gunning for Baca and Webster
While Mayor Michael Bloomberg was tending to Hurricane Sandy in New York, his new super PAC was making its first big plays in Florida and California. More
(1)Bloomberg PAC won't be helping Scott Brown
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new super PAC won't be helping Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
"We will not be spending in that race," Howard Wolfson, the former Democratic operative who is managing the mayor's last-minute spending blitz on behalf of moderate candidates, told me this morning. More
(1)What would a super PAC want with the 2013 mayor's race anyway?
At a panel discussion on the possible role of super PACs in 2013 last week, Michael Bloomberg's former campaign manager cast some doubt about how active the mayor's fortune might be in determining his successor. More
In New York, Romney super PAC raises from private equity, a disaffected Obama donor and a math tutor
Restore Our Future, the super PAC backing Mitt Romney, reported today that it raised just under $5 million in the month of May. More
Two super PACs and one massive loophole work against Charlie Rangel's re-election
An out-of-state anti-incumbent super PAC that's currently targeting Charlie Rangel won't be showing up in many FEC reports. More
(1)Anti-incumbent super PAC targeting Rangel considers Conyers too
A spokesman for the anti-incumbent super PAC that's targeting Charlie Rangel said this afternoon that the group might add longtime Michigan congressman John Conyers to its list of targets.
"We're looking at it," said Curtis Ellis, the spokesman for the Campaign for Primary Accountability. More
Obama super PAC's April haul from New York: $12,500
President Obama's super PAC is still struggling to raise money, and nowhere is it more conspicuous than in New York.
According to the latest F.E.C. filings, Priorities USA Action raised just over $1.5 million in April, which included $1 million from the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
Donors from across New York State gave a grand total of $12,500 last month. More
In a memo, Ricketts tells his news staff his politics have 'absolutely no impact' on their work
Ricketts tells his staff in the memo, obtained by Capital, that "although I feel a strong obligation as a citizen to engage politically in support of the principles I hold dear, I feel equally strongly that my personal politics should have absolutely no impact on your work as objective, fair-minded journalists." Whole thing after the jump. More
Messina to Romney: You're no John McCain
President Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina, emailed a statement this morning reacting to the New York Times report that the conservative activist (and owner of DNAInfo) Joe Ricketts is considering an aggressive assault on the president's character, including incendiary clips of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright that John McCain reportedly declined to employ during the 2008 campaign. More
With an anti-Obama attack plan, DNAinfo owner Joe Ricketts comes out of his shell
One thing not mentioned in today's bombshell article in The New York Times about billionaire Joe Ricketts, the man behind a Super PAC campaign to revive the issue of pastor Jeremiah Wright in the 2012 election cycle? More
(2)Axelrod says Biden was just boiling down the president's position on gay marriage
On a conference call this morning, David Axelrod said Vice President Joe Biden's remarks yesterday about same-sex marriage are "entirely consistent" with President Obama's position on the issue.
Biden made headlines on Meet the Press by issuing a strong endorsement of same-sex marriage that seemed to go beyond the president's ongoing evolution on the issue. More
Obama super PAC pushes Romney as a puppet of 'Big Oil'
Priorities USA Action, the super PAC supporting President Obama, is making a big ad buy in the hopes of tethering Mitt Romney to the country's biggest oil producers.
The super PAC teamed with the campaign arm of the League of Conservation Voters to split the cost of a $1 million ad that says Romney is "in the tank for Big Oil." More
Wendy Long looks to conservative-activist anti-Gillibrand network that won't mind the daunting odds
Wendy Long, the Manhattan attorney who hopes to be a U.S. senator, can't come anywhere close to the incumbent, Kirsten Gillibrand, in terms of name recognition. She's not even the best known candidate among Gillibrand's would-be Republican challengers, since minor-celebrity congressman Bob Turner got into the race. More
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