Category: Politics
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Tobacco giant Reynolds American funded conservative nonprofits
By Dave Levinthal
Center for Public Integrity
Tobacco giant Reynolds American Inc. last year helped fund several of the nation’s most politically active — and secretive — nonprofit organizations, according to a company document reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity. -
Hidden owner of ‘news’ site gave $120,000 to group that paid sheriff’s campaign manager
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
The registered owner of an online Broward “news” operation contributed over $120,000 to a political group that made payments to a firm owned by Sheriff Scott Israel’s campaign manager, Amy Rose, and to her husband. -
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Voter information wars: Will the GOP team Up with Wal-Mart’s data specialist?
By Lois Beckett
ProPublica
The Republicans have admitted it: They need to get serious about collecting and analyzing voter data. Well, you can’t get much more serious than talking to Teradata, the “data warehousing” company that helps Wal-Mart, Apple and eBay store massive amounts of information about the behavior of their customers. -
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Conflicts of interest run rampant in state legislatures, including Florida
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Center for Public Integrity
SANTA FE — On February 20, New Mexico’s House Energy and Natural Resources Committee gathered for one of its regular meetings in a drab room here at the capitol, a circular building known as the Roundhouse. On the agenda: a bill that would hike fees and penalties for energy companies drilling wells in the state.
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