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A group called "Arkansans for Democracy and Justice" is flooding Arkansas with attack ads, but it is registered in Alabama, uses out-of-state vendors and hasn't received a single dime from actual Arkansans.
Since 2010, a money manager that gives campaign cash to the officials who pick who runs a public pension can't get paid by that pension for two years. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins wants the rule gone — even though the SEC's own proposal admits pay-to-play schemes take money from retirees and taxpayers.
A September 15 FEC letter says LaLota's campaign took money from Leonard Blavatnik, Stacey Siebel, Andrea Wynn and Lewis Stahl that appears to exceed federal limits. LaLota says it was one misspelled name. Thirteen of the 23 FEC letters his campaign has received since 2022 flag apparently over-the-limit money.
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This summer, tainted lettuce infected nearly 13,000 Americans, put 570 in the hospital and killed two.
Two weeks after Liberation Day, Sen. Katie Britt's office quietly asked for tariff help for Airbus, Novelis, Kronospan and TNT Fireworks. Then she voted four times to keep the tariffs on everyone else.
The Food Traceability Rule would make food companies keep digital records so investigators can find the source of an outbreak fast. The farm-and-FDA spending law from Harris' subcommittee says no money can be used to enforce it before July 20, 2028. This summer, a cyclospora outbreak traced to Mexican lettuce put 570 people in the hospital. Harris doesn't appear to have said a word.
Michigan's Republican Senate nominee argued that people named in the Epstein files need protecting if there's no evidence of a crime. FEC records show seven of them have given more than $4.6 million to his campaign, his committees and the super PAC backing him — $4.5 million of it from Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman.
While he was Ohio's lieutenant governor, Husted took a paid seat on the board of a bank his own administration regulated. Heartland Bank then gave his political committee $492,000 — and kept giving after he moved to the U.S. Senate.
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Tech billionaires are telling us that AI will cure cancer, solve world hunger and bring an age of abundance where none of us has to work.