Tag: political action committees
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Colorado campaign debt collection efforts aren’t much of an effort
It was only weeks after the U.S. military in September 2011 repealed its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy barring openly gay men and women from serving in the armed forces that Army veteran Brian Carroll announced his candidacy for a seat in the Colorado General Assembly. Carroll, then a member of the state’s National Guard,…
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Super Bowl ad for RFK Jr. stirs Democratic and family tension over his independent White House bid
Robert Kennedy Jr.’s presidential ambitions resulted in public family drama after a political action committee aired a Super Bowl ad invoking the Democratic family’s legacy to implicitly compare the independent candidate to his assassinated uncle, President John F. Kennedy
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How the ‘squad’ is fighting back against pro-Israel PACs with record fundraising
A group of progressive lawmakers are fighting back against a multimillion-dollar campaign to push them out of Congress for their vocal opposition to Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas