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Extra Extra Monday: Several enterprise stories tackle gun control issues

The Washington PostReview of FBI forensics does not extend to federally trained state, local examinersThe Washington Post reports that thousands of criminal cases at the state and local level may […]
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Karl Rove’s Dark Money Group Promised IRS It Would Spend ‘Limited’ Money on Elections

“In a confidential 2010 filing, Crossroads GPS — the dark money group that spent more than $70 million from anonymous donors on the 2012 election — told the Internal Revenue […]
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State’s cancer-fighting agency funded projects of Perry campaign contributor

"A month after Texas voters approved a 10-year, $3 billion program to fight cancer, a Dallas businessman and several of his associates began to pour tens of thousands of dollars […]
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Hundreds of millions of dollars spent on election in CA alone

"Now that Tuesday's election is over, CaliforniaWatch did an analysis to find out how much money was pumped into the political battles over California's eleven propositions." "The total they found […]
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New Jersey’s Campaign Cash: Where it comes from, which towns give the most, and the crazy difference in how they raise their millions in donations

The paper analyzed campaign finance data and found a striking disparity between the two presidential candidates, despite being nearly identical in money raised (Barack Obama has raised $5.3 million in […]
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Iowa sees $29.6 million TV ad inundation

The Des Moines Register and eight other newspapers joined forces to gather and analyze TV political advertising spending data statewide in the 2012 presidential race. The effort revealed an unprecedented […]
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Taxpayers foot the bill for convention parties

"WTSP-Tampa has found, through federal filings, that the Republican & Democratic national conventions promise economic windfalls to host cities but most of the money spent comes from the U.S. Treasury, […]
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Lawyers playing key role in fundraising for the 2012 presidential election

The Daily Business Review takes a closer look at the 2012 presidential election and the role lawyers have played in fundraising. They combed through FEC and OpenSecrets.org records to compile […]
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S.C House Speaker's PAC channels hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican Party

"South Carolina’s House speaker is affiliated with a political action committee that has doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and private contracts to sitting state lawmakers." "According […]
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Keeping tabs on super PACs and super donors

"To keep tabs on super PACs, and as of today, super donors, The Center for Public Integrity has a project to "out" the shadowy political organizations that have flourished in […]
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