Public Campaign Action Fund - Bush

Who does HUD award contracts to?

David Donnelly — Tue, 09 May 2006 20:33:46 -0500

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson is in hot water -- and quite possibly legal liability -- for telling an audience in Dallas that HUD didn't award a contract to a company whose CEO opposed President Bush. Doesn't that beg the question, just who does HUD choose to award contracts to?

What is free speech today?

David Donnelly — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:09:26 -0500

Most of the criticism of any kind of campaign finance reform is that is somehow clamps down on free speech. In our current federal system of pay-to-play elections, incumbents can outraise challengers and easily outspend them in gerrymandered districts, and money speaks louder than people. Speech is not free as much as its bought.

Two Places At Once: PA and IN Get Visits From Bush Today

Rick Bielke — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:54:33 -0500

A few more stories on the Bush White House’s cross country fundraising efforts on behalf of congressional candidates in tight races.

GOP Candidates Have Hand In Bush's Pocket

Rick Bielke — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:06:54 -0500

GOP candidates are publicly disagreeing with President Bush and his policies because of his low poll numbers but apparently have no qualms about using him or the vice president as a means to raise campaign cash.

Make of this what you will...

David Donnelly — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:54:04 -0500

At least someone has limits on what they'd do for cash.

Movie star and pop singer Jessica Simpson, recently of Dukes of Hazard fame, refused to appear at a Republican fundraising event to meet with Bush. It's not clear why the fundraising event is the only time on Bush's schedule.

"It just feels wrong," one Simpson insider told Reuters on Wednesday, adding that the actress keeps her political views private. "She would love to meet the president and talk about Operation Smile … but she can't do it at a fund-raiser for the Republican Party."

Hotline Running Snippets of Vanity Fair Interview With Abramoff

Rick Bielke — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 06:17:00 -0500

Courtesy of the DailyKos, the Hotline Blog is posting snippets of an interview with Jack Abramoff that will be printed in Vanity Fair. From the blog: "According to the Vanity Fair article, Pres. Bush once teased Abramoff about his muscular bu...

Circle The Wagons: DeLay and Lampson Will Vie For Seat

Rick Bielke — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 06:08:00 -0500

DeLay was able to secure the GOP nod in TX-22 (he received 62% of the vote) but not by the margin expected from a sitting incumbent in a Republican leaning district. DeLay remains as vulnerable as people have been saying he is. Cal Jillson, a ...

Texas redistricting

Nancy Watzman — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:31:00 -0500

Lu Dubose, co-author with Jan Reid of The Hammer Comes Down: The Nasty, Brutish and Shortened Political Life of Tom DeLay, has a good piece over at TomPaine.com summarizing the DeLay Texas redistricting debacle.He reminds us that the U.S. Sup...

It depends on what the definition of a "friend" is

Nancy Watzman — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 06:02:00 -0500

Tom DeLay just sent a nine-page letter to his GOP constituents, claiming that it is "absolutely untrue" that he was a "close personal friend" of Jack Abramoff's. Hmmm...all those trips, all those gifts (remember the Three Tenors concert)?...

The Enron E-Mails

Micah Sifry — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:38:00 -0500

Back in 2003, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released some 1.5 million email messages that it collected as part of its investigation of Enron's price-gouging of California consumers. The press pounced on some of the choicer bits, bu...