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Conservatives Question Debate Moderators Tie to Obama
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Hillraisers Land Obama Appointments
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Nosy neighbors are smarter voters
The stated mission of the Center for Competitive Politics is to advocate for First Amendment rights.
The organization’s interpretation of free speech is that it should be unfettered by campaign spending limits or disclosure requirements.
Here, for example, is a recent post on the center’s Facebookpage:
Full disclosure: We’re journalists. We’re prone to nosiness. We want voters to read and to question. We think they have a right to know about who’s paying what to get candidates elected and to influence them once they’re in office.
We believe that transparency makes for a more informed electorate and a more sound democratic process.
So in that spirit, we’ve created a Muckety map showing some of the funders of the center, and some of the other organizations supported by those funders.
The the Center for Competitive Politics received more than $1.5 million in donations in 2010, the last year for which tax returns are available.
As the map shows, the center has been funded by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Richard & Helen Devos Foundation and the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation.
The upper right quadrant of the map shows some of the other groups receiving grants from two or more of these foundations. They include the the conservative watchdog group, Media Research Center, and Americans for Prosperity, one of the biggest secret spenders in the 2012 campaign.
For better viewing and easier manipulation, we suggest that you check out the larger version of the map, where you can also click to more information about each person and organization.
Note: The center’s name is confusingly similar to that of the Center for Responsive Politics, which holds an opposite view about transparency. We use CRP’s site almost every day to check campaign contributions and lobbying activities, and we highly recommend it to every voter.
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This post is tagged with: campaign finance, Center for Competitive Politics, First Amendment, transparencyRead related stories: Politics · Recent StoriesThe relationship map to the left is interactive.• Solid lines are current relations. Dotted lines are former relations.• Expand items with + signs by double-clicking or by selecting multiple items in the map and pressing the “e” key.• Move an item in the map by clicking and dragging.• You can also delete items, separate boxes and save maps. Right-click on the map or select Map Tools for these options.• Find out more about an item in the map by right-clicking on the item and choosing Information about…• View map color key.• This interactive map requires Flash player.
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Jimmy Carter’s grandson serves up a cold dishSeptember 18, 2012 at 4:45pm
Guess who helped uncover Mitt Romney’s comments about the deadbeat 47 percent?
Obama Super Pac Taps Democratic Firmament
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Obamas Glittering Donor List
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Ambassador Bundlers Again Contributing to Obama
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Obama on Guns a Big Disappointment
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GOP targets Obama bundler Steve Westly
Lo and behold, relationship maps are popping up in political ads.
A new Republican National Committee ad uses a visual similar to Muckety maps to illustrate federal dollars going to venture capitalist Steven Westly, a bundler for Barack Obama in 2008 and again this year.
The map above, generated by our database, shows multiple links between Westly and the Obama administration’s Department of Energy.
Steven WestlyWestly, an unsuccessful candidate for California governor in 2006, sits on the Secretary of of Energy Advisory Board. He was also guest at the dinner meeting Obama held with tech leaders last year at the home of venture capitalist L. John Doerr.
His venture capital firm, Westly Group, has invested in companies that have received DOE funding through alternative-energy programs. (To be fair, some of that funding began during the Bush administration. For a thorough fact checking, see the Washington Post, which awarded the RNC 1 Pinocchio.)
The video below shows the GOP version of the map:
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The relationship map to the left is interactive.• Solid lines are current relations. Dotted lines are former relations.• Expand items with + signs by double-clicking or by selecting multiple items in the map and pressing the “e” key.• Move an item in the map by clicking and dragging.• You can also delete items, separate boxes and save maps. Right-click on the map or select Map Tools for these options.• Find out more about an item in the map by right-clicking on the item and choosing Information about…• View map color key.• This interactive map requires Flash player.
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Obama’s glittering donor listJuly 27, 2012 at 12:13pm
It’s hardly news that many in Hollywood are sending their love to the Obama campaign, but the list is still impressive.
Obama Bundlers Make Big Donations to Cuomo
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