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Obama Campaign Returning Contributions
WPBF West Palm Beach
By the CNN Wire Staff CHICAGO (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign said Tuesday it is returning about $200000 in donations collected by two Chicago men after a newspaper report described their brother as a fugitive with alleged links ...
Obama to Return Major Donations Tied to FugitiveNew York Times
Obama camp to return $200000 in contributionsChicago Tribune
Obama campaign returns money from fugitive's kinSan Francisco Chronicle
Chicago Sun-Times -Fox News
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Bloomberg

Obama now urges donations to super PAC backing him
Detroit Free Press
Last year, Priorities counted at least three federal lobbyists among its 60-plus contributors, campaign-finance records show. Officials with Obama's campaign said they can't control whether the PAC accepts future lobbyist contributions, even as White ...
Obama campaign reverses stance, urging donations to super PACmsnbc.com
Report: 48 percent of Obama donations from small donorsThe Hill (blog)
If Obama Takes Super PAC Money, He Must Fight Like Hell to Make it Illegal and ...Huffington Post
Bloomberg -Buffalo News
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Politics in Minnesota

Voter ID foes target business groups' campaign contributions
MinnPost.com (blog)
TakeAction Minnesota, which opposes a proposed Voter ID constitutional amendment, said its review of campaign data links financial contributions from bank executives and conservative groups to candidates who support the controversial amendment.
TakeAction report looks to links Voter ID to bank donationsPolitics in Minnesota

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Marc Kovac - Statehouse Republicans way ahead in campaign contributions
Defiance Crescent News (subscription)
The Ohio House Democratic Caucus Fund, meanwhile, had a balance on hand of $410657, with contributions received of $416524. • The Ohio Republican Senate Campaign Committee had a balance on hand of more than $3.5 million, with contributions of about ...

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Politico (blog)

Lobbyist Ron Klein fundraising for Obama, despite pledge
Politico (blog)
By BYRON TAU | Despite a longstanding promise not to accept political contributions from lobbyists or special interests, one of President Obama's top fundraisers is a registered airline lobbyist. Former Florida Rep. Ron Klein, now working as a partner ...
Recommended: Obama bundler to 'de-register' as lobbyistmsnbc.com

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Obama campaign returning contributions from donors tied to fugitive
CNN (blog)
The reelection campaign of President Barack Obama said Tuesday it plans to return about $200000 in donations collected by two Chicago men after a newspaper report described their brother as a fugitive with alleged links to violence and corruption in ...




Council re-election campaigns receive large donations from unions, developers
Elk Grove Citizen
By Bryan M. Gold - Citizen Staff Writer New election records show that unions, developers, and service providers gave the bulk of re-election campaign contributions to Elk Grove City Council members last year. There were contributions by the same ...

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Madison County Record

Contributions to judges needs more scrutiny
Madison County Record
... 2013 trial slots to three law firms that had donated to her campaign. Contributions to judges are legal in the state of Illinois but the appearance of a quid pro quo in Madison County has many people all across the state understandably concerned.




OnMilwaukee.com

Executives open pockets to help Walker fight recall
OnMilwaukee.com
Then jaws dropped again when Walker's campaign announced a few days later it had raised more than $4.5 million in the most recent reporting period from a total of 21443 contributions. State law allows candidates who are targets of recalls to raise ...

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Bain executives spend nearly $5 million on Romney's White House runs
Kansas City Star
Since then, they've given to political committees in early primary states - some without contribution limits - for both of Romney's presidential campaigns and to federal "leadership PACs" that the candidate controls. Most dramatically, they gave at ...

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