opensecrets.org - 7/30/2008
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If you follow this blog closely, you know that the Center for Responsive Politics and seven other watchdog groups asked John McCain and Barack Obama to disclose more information to the public about two segments of their fundraising bases that account for a large share of the half a billion dollars they've already raised: their "bundlers" and their small donors. On July 11, John McCain's ...
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Naming the bundlers
Ben Smith's Blog —
... OpenSecrets compares the two candidates' disclosure, and finds McCain more transparent, notably in the area of (voluntarily) naming the campaigns' bundlers, key people in the fundraising apparatus who bring in others' checks. ...
Barack Obama: Transparently Secretive [Karl]
protein wisdom —
The Center for Responsive Politics and seven other watchdog groups recently asked asked John McCain and Barack Obama to disclose more information to the public about their fundraising “bundlers” and their small donors. McCain responded; Obama ignored them. McCain also fares better overall on donor disclosure. At the Politico, ...
Comparing Obama To McCain On Campaign Fundraising Transparency, Something The MSM Can’t Be Bothered To Report On
Flopping Aces —
... The Center for Responsive Politics and seven other watchdog groups asked McCain and Obama to make available information on two fundraising tactics used by both parties. Bundlers and their small donors. McCain responded, Obama ignored them. ...
On donor disclosure, John McCain gets a B, Barack Obama gets a C
Top of the Ticket —
... John McCain lately has gotten huzzahs for fundraising transparency. Barack Obama? Not so much. ...
Please check your credit card receipts for unauthorized political donations.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... For the record, I do not criticize the Obama campaign for
accepting a $2,300 donation that has turned out to be bogus. I
do criticize them for
not making their entire donor database transparent in response
to the request of watchdog groups: which is why I'm encouraging
people to look at their bills. Twenty three hundred bucks would
certainly get noticed by anybody reading this. Ten or twenty bucks
a month? You might not notice, and the campaign certainly won't
give the money back simply because the email provided bounces. ...
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