MORE ON: campaign finance

Despite predictions that January's Supreme Court ruling would lead to unprecedented corporate spending on elections, lawyers at some of the country's largest businesses told Corporate Counsel magazine that companies are in no hurry to spend more on elections, according to a story that ran Friday.... + read more

Smile, Bill Emmerson. Your state Senate bid just got a whole lot richer. Emmerson, a Republican state assemblyman from Redlands and a long-time orthodontist who is now running for state Senate, reported getting a big boost yesterday to not one, but two political committees courtesy of his... + read more

Congressional Democrats have unveiled their response to a controversial Supreme Court ruling last month that allows corporations to spend freely on political advertising and other independent expenditures. The proposal, by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., will... + read more

The feverish spending by California gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner has been well documented this week, with Monday's release of the newest round of state campaign finance reports. The short version: With nearly a year to go before the general election, Whitman has... + read more

At least 19 campaign donors have given money to both Republican gubernatorial candidates, with slightly more large donations going to Meg Whitman than her rival for the GOP nomination, Steve Poizner, campaign reports filed this week show. The lone Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Jerry... + read more

With last week's Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations to spend freely on attack ads during this year's contentious midterm elections, the debate has turned to questioning whether the financial might of corporate America will drown out significant, but less wealthy political players, such as... + read more

In case you missed it, the L.A. Times’ Patrick McGreevy put together a great story this weekend about a nonprofit organization called the Council for Legislative Excellence – a business-backed group run by the wife of a legislative staffer that paid for an expensive retreat last month... + read more