Public Citizen Unveils Database to Track Record Amounts of Secret Money Being Funneled Into November

[kpete]

Source: Public Citizen


Public Citizen Unveils Database to Track Record Amounts of Secret Money Being Funneled Into November Elections

Tuesday, October 19, 2010
With record amounts of secret money being funneled through nonprofit organizations to influence the upcoming elections, Public Citizen today unveiled an Internet database to track the activity.

The new Stealth PACs database is available at http://www.citizen.org/stealthpacs

The project tracks 120 groups that are working to influence the elections with large contributions from corporations, unions or wealthy individuals in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s January 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

All contributors giving more than $5,000 are reported, as are payments to vendors and other recipients of more than $1,000. The information on the site will be updated frequently through the Nov. 2 election. Visitors to the website can view electioneering activity sorted by individual groups, electoral contests and states.

The 120 groups included in the site spent $109 million to influence elections this year (as reported to the Federal Election Commission through Oct. 12), led by Karl Rove’s American Crossroads and its related Crossroads GPS ($18.4 million); the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ($15.5 million); the AFL-CIO ($9.4 million); American Future Fund ($7.7 million); and 60 Plus Association ($6.1 million).

“Public Citizen and many others predicted a tidal wave of corporate money entering and distorting the electoral process after the Citizens United decision,” said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen. “But the situation is far worse than we expected. The corporate and billionaire money - and resultant TV ads - are degrading our democracy, shaking its very foundations.”

Read more: http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=4542

[Bluzmann57]

1. Thanks for posting this info.

Hopefully it will do some good and bring the roaches out into the daylight where they can be squashed.

[Tippy]

2. K&R....I really want to say something unkind to SCOTUS

But I won't after this decision was handed down I now see we really need to fear this court. And I thought their decision in Gore v. Bush was bad, little did I know...

[mzmolly]

3. WTG Public Citizen!

:toast:

[earcandle]

4. I thing the progressive democrats and the independent parties are NOT going to follow the money and

will vote with their intelligence and goodwill, despite what FAUX news stations are promoting... including MSNBC.

[indimuse]

5. KNR! n/t

[felix_numinous]

6. K & R

[ProSense]

7. A Watergate lesson:

A Watergate lesson: Secret money means payoffs, bribes and extortion

[TomCADem]

8. K & R!

[JudyM]

9. K&R