Search results for: “campaign spending”
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IRS nonprofit division overloaded, understaffed; 2012 banner year for nonprofit applications
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By Dave Levinthal Center for Public Integrity Amid withering accusations the Internal Revenue Service targeted tea party and other conservative groups with enhanced scrutiny, the agency faces another problem: it’s drowning in paperwork.
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Everything we know about what’s happened under sequestration
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By Theodoric Meyer ProPublica When the annual White House Easter Egg Hunt faced cancellation this year due to the package of mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration, the National Park Service kicked into high gear. It rescued the event — held since 1878 — with money from “corporate sponsors and the sale of commemorative wooden…
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Voter information wars: Will the GOP team Up with Wal-Mart’s data specialist?
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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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Karl Rove-affiliated groups spend $175 million, lose 21 of 30 races
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By Michael Beckel and Reity O’Brien Center for Public Integrity If Karl Rove was an NFL coach and not a political strategist, he would probably be looking for a new job about now. Organizations co-founded by the GOP’s most effective fundraiser spent more than $175 million only to see President Barack Obama win a second…