The Exciting World of German Campaign Finance
So what makes those Germans different from us, aside from their wearing black socks and Birkenstocks? For starters, they don’t spend as much on political races as we do. In total, all the parties spent the combined amount of 50 million euros (about $70 million). That’s it. Compare this to the Obama campaign, which spent [...]
Those Other Fishy Emails
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Fox News’s Major Garrett had a heated exchange last week over whether the White House was spamming people with emails to support Obamacare. Garrett reported that several people had contacted him saying that they received a mass email from David Axelrod to support the health-care legislation, and Gibbs was unable [...]
Gibbs: "Nobody’s Keeping Anybody’s Email", But Of Course "Fishy" Emails Will Be Saved by the National Archives
Earlier this week, the White House asked people to forward “fishy” emails they receive that may be spreading misinformation about health-care reform to flag@whitehouse.gov. In response, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) wrote in a letter to President Obama that it’s “inevitable that the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and private speech of U.S. citizens will be [...]
