San Francisco unveils 'Nancy Pelosi Drive' - OneNewsNow


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San Francisco unveils 'Nancy Pelosi Drive'
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Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) says the road in Golden Gate Park that connects John F. Kennedy Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive will now be called "Nancy Pelosi Drive." KGO-TV in San Francisco reports that Mayor Ed Lee ...

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Lobbying Group Asks Supreme Court Not To Use "Empirical Evidence" Of ... - OpEdNews


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Lobbying Group Asks Supreme Court Not To Use "Empirical Evidence" Of ...
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By Lee Fang (about the author) Late last year, the Montana high court, citing the state's long history of corporate money corrupting politics, defied the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and continued enforcing the state's 100-year old law ...

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Wisconsin girds for final stretch of Walker recall battle - Fox News

Wisconsin girds for final stretch of Walker recall battle
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Mordecai Lee, professor of government affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, says that is the new reality in politics. "Super PACs and other third parties are really going to be able to define what an election is all about.

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Wisconsin vote highlights US polarisation - Financial Times


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Wisconsin vote highlights US polarisation
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Lee Dreyfus, who held the office in the early 1980s, said the city was “30 square miles surrounded by reality”. Certainly, Madison has not been friendly territory for Mr Walker since he proposed last year to scrap collective bargaining rights for most ...

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Of Bile and Billionaires - New York Times


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Of Bile and Billionaires
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They're exemplified by Sheldon Adelson, who saw no better use for his wealth than stringing out Newt & Callista's Execrable Adventure long past the point of box-office viability. And they're emboldened, perhaps, by a freewheeling climate around ...

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INSIGHT-Super PACS: Follow the money - if you can - Reuters

INSIGHT-Super PACS: Follow the money - if you can
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The family of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson donated $21.5 million. By the end of March 2012, WOF had raised an additional $1.2 million, for a war chest of $23.8 million. Who received that money is difficult to discern. Within six weeks of the Super ...

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Montana AG urges US Supreme Court to keep corporate spending ban - The Missoulian

Montana AG urges US Supreme Court to keep corporate spending ban
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Sheldon Whitehouse, DR.I., and John McCain, R-Ariz.; four US representatives; former Federal Election Commission officials; Campaign Legal Center and other groups; Walter Dellinger and other academics; Brennan Center for Justice at New York University ...

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