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Obama’s second Inaugural funded by big corporate donors; less transparent

Four years ago, President Obama banned corporate and union donations from funding his first Inauguration. Not this time. This time, the man who railed on how Citizens United would “open the floodgates for special interests” by allowing unlimited contributions from corporations and “America’s most powerful interests” ….is accepting unlimited donations to his inaugural committee from […]

It’s not just rich Republicans — unions also giving millions to SuperPACs

The vast majority of the media coverage of this year’s SuperPAC phenomenon has focused on conservative billionaires who’ve given millions to Republican-leaning or anti-Obama SuperPACs. But it’d be a mistake to forget about the multi-million dollar investment American unions have made in Democratic-leaning SuperPACs. The Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group committed to transparency in government […]