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When it comes to trust-busting, McCain's no Roosevelt
John McCain often says he idolizes President Teddy Roosevelt, but his opposition to regulating the local telephone industry suggests that he may not share the former president's passion for busting huge corporate trusts. | 08/20/08 16:54:00 By - Greg Gordon
Did Washington waste millions on faulty voting machines?
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding that have gone to upgrade the nation's voting machines since 2003 were used to purchase touch-screen systems that many states are now scrapping because of concerns about their security and reliability. | 08/15/08 20:02:00 By - Greg Gordon
Watchdog seeks federal investigation of McCain donations
Campaign Money Watch urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey to probe the activities of Florida defense contractor Harry Sargeant III, who is credited with raising more than $500,000 for the campaign. It also questioned $57,000 in donations from an office manager for the oil giant, the Hess Corp., and her husband, a railroad foreman. | 08/11/08 18:07:00 By - Greg Gordon
Top McCain adviser lobbied for nation of Georgia
John McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randall Scheunemann, lobbied for the nation of Georgia for four years, including for about a year after he joined the Republican senator's presidential campaign staff in early 2007. | 08/08/08 19:28:00 By - Greg Gordon
Three key questions still unanswered in anthrax case
While the FBI says it's certain Bruce Ivins is the person who setn anthrax spores through the mail to news media and government officials, there are still key questions that are unanswered. One of the most disturbing is, if Ivins was the mentally troubled person the FBI portrays, how did he remain in his sensitive government position, with access to dangerous bio materials, for so long? | 08/07/08 21:02:00 By - Greg Gordon
After suicide, prosecutors reveal circumstantial anthrax case
A top Justice Department official said Wednesday that investigators are confident that government scientist Bruce Ivins, who behaved erratically and was treated for mental illness before committing suicide last week, "was the only person involved" in the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that killed five people and terrorized the nation. | 08/06/08 20:32:00 By - Marisa Taylor and Greg Gordon
Did New York couple give $61,600 to McCain, GOP?
Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp.. Her husband, Pasquale, is an Amtrak foreman. Yet they gave $61,600 to John McCain's presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain's decision to endorse offshore oil drilling. | 08/05/08 19:53:00 By - Greg Gordon
Republicans giving money they got from Stevens to charity
Republican senators facing reelection challenges sought to insulate themselves from indicted Sen. Ted Stevens Wednesday by promising to donate to charity tens of thousands of dollars they received from the veteran Alaska lawmaker's political action committee. Those unloading money include Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell and Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman. | 07/30/08 21:05:00 By - Greg Gordon
Can anything slow Obama's fundraising juggernaut?
Barack Obama raised another record sum of money in June — $52 million — and now has surpassed George W. Bush's record for campaign fundraising. That means the Democrats likely will have the cash on hand to wage battle in states that haven't seen a real presidential fight in decades. "He's a fundraising god," said one political scientist. | 07/17/08 00:39:00 By - Greg Gordon
McCain, GOP best Obama and Dems in May fundraising
John McCain and the Republican Party won a fund-raising round from Democratic rival Barack Obama and his record-setting money machine in May, together raising a total of $45 million, some $20 million more than the Democrats. But Obama, by raising $21.9 million, shattered the presidential fund-raising record for the primary election season, collecting $287.5 million since entering the race last year. | 06/20/08 20:48:00 By - Greg Gordon
Obama, with plenty of money, forgoes public financing
Obama's decision reverses an earlier pledge to take public money if the Republican nominee did too. By saying he'll finance his presidential campaign himself, Obama becomes the first major White House hopeful to reject public financing of a general election presidential campaign since the system was introduced in the wake of Watergate. | 06/19/08 11:08:00 By - David Lightman
Clinton's dilemma: Awash in both cash and debt
Clinton has more than $21 million in debts contracted during the primary season, and only $6 million in cash to pay them off. The $23 million she's collected for a general election run she now won't be making can't be used to meet them. Obama could help her out, but that's unlikely until she concedes. | 06/04/08 19:08:00 By - Greg Gordon
Former Bush donors now giving to Obama's campaign
A McClatchy computer analysis found that hundreds of people who gave at least $200 to Bush's 2004 campaign have donated to Obama. Among them are Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Ritchie Scaife, the estranged wife of conservative tycoon Richard Mellon Scaife. | 05/30/08 20:12:00 By - Greg Gordon
House committee moves to force Rove testimony in probe
The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed former White House political guru Karl Rove on Thursday to force his testimony about allegations that political meddling in the Justice Department led to selective prosecutions of southern Democrats. | 05/22/08 18:17:00 By - Greg Gordon
Former Justice lawyer pulls name for election post
Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department lawyer who became a lightning rod for partisan wrangling over an alleged Bush administration voter suppression campaign, pulled his name from consideration for a seat on the Federal Election Commission Friday. | 05/16/08 19:57:00 By - Greg Gordon
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