Hedge funds bet heavily on Republicans at end of election

By Peter H. Stone and Michael Isikoff

A small network of hedge fund executives pumped at least $10 million into Republican campaign committees and allied groups in last year’s el

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"… ng,” said Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit group that promotes transparency in campaign finance and has financially s …"

"… he former chairman of the Republican National Committee. A closely related nonprofit group, Crossroads GPS, which does not have to publicly disclose its donors …"

Chamber of Commerce, other biz lobbies drill big oil for new cash gusher

By Peter H. Stone

What do the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), and the new American Crossroads group have i

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"… sectors.American CrossroadsMeanwhile, American Crossroads, a so-called 527 nonprofit group that’s looking to raise upwards of $50 million this year to help d …"

Audit says legal aid boss charged taxpayers for club, car

By John Solomon and Laurel Adams

The head of a Louisiana legal aid group funded by the federal government routinely dined at a private club and drove a leased vehicle for pe

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"… pending as inappropriate.Utility giant Entergy Corp., a donor to Wayne’s nonprofit legal aid group, paid for his Camelot Club membership and meals, he said. …"

"… ditors with a false impression he was dining alone.“I’m a very visible nonprofit director, so my meal is paid for,” Wayne told the Center in a telephone …"

"… The IRS recently gave him permission, Wayne said, to start reimbursing his nonprofit group $100 a month for personal use of the car.Other practices at Capital …"

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Insurance brokers seek health reform change to safeguard profits

By Josh Israel

Insurance brokers seek change in health reform provision to protect profits

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"… ms eminently logical.Lynn Quincy, senior health policy analyst at the nonprofit Consumers Union, does not believe broker and agent fees were envisioned as …"

"… ious reasons. Claire McAndrew, a health policy analyst for Families USA, a nonprofit group that calls itself the “the voice for health care consumers,” say …"

Exporting an epidemic

By Jim Morris

Human toll reaches millions as asbestos industry expands worldwide

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"… nery — were immersed in fiber-rich white dust, setting themselves up for diseases that would debilitate many of them in retirement and kill some of them in …"

"… City to Ahmedabad, India. And yet, despite waves of asbestos-related disease in North America, Europe, and Australia, bans or restrictions in 52 c …"

"… sp;estimates that 100,000 workers die each year from asbestos-related diseases. Thousands more perish from environmental exposures. Dr. James Leigh, ret …"

"… ion does not include deaths from asbestosis, a non-cancerous, chronic lung disease. Another study, by two researchers in New Delhi, suggests that by 2020, de …"

Continuing impact from Center series

By Kristen Lombardi

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. And as commemorating events get underway nationwide, the Center for Public Integrity’s recent proje

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"… ter and a National Public Radio series, has just filed paperwork to form a nonprofit group called Parents Against Campus Crime, which is intended to help paren …"

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Little-known Texas patron guided Bush policies on vouchers, tort reform

By Kathryn Wallace

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2000 — Only three days after Texas Governor George W. Bush was inaugurated in 1995, he declared the state of the Texas

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"… k tanks and political campaigns, according to the Texas Freedom Network, a nonprofit group established to counter the religious right, and reports filed with t …"

"… gns, is a for-profit corporation that matches large Republican donors with nonprofit groups and candidates who want to air political issue ads while protecting …"

"… ’s holdings and donations is difficult because he uses many think tanks, nonprofits, PACs and businesses as tools for his political funding. Leininger is kno …"

"… er to the election,” Sam Smoot, director of the Texas Freedom Network, a nonprofit group that tracks the religious right, said of Leininger’s campaign dona …"

Brooks Brothers rioter turns attention to energy this election season

By Marianne Lavelle

An advocacy group run by a political operative with oil industry ties (and a famous photo-op history) is spearheading a late advertising bli

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"… ssissippi. The American Energy Alliance, which describes itself as a new nonprofit group dedicated to informing “policymakers that there is no such thi …"

"… s arm” of the Institute for Energy Research (also headed by Pyle), a nonprofit foundation that worked earlier this year to defeat climate change legislat …"

Black candidates see little of the millions their parties raise

By Robert Moore

WASHINGTON, September 15, 2000 — The Second Congressional District cuts a swath about 275 miles long and 180 miles wide through the deepest,

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"… the landmark 1996 study, “The Color of Money,” by the Washington-based nonprofit group Public Campaign, there has been little research on the trends in cam …"

Outside groups push pedal to the metal In Michigan race

By Kathryn Wallace

WASHINGTON, September 21, 2000 — The Sierra Club is distributing campaign items attacking Senator Spencer Abraham in the form of a "campaign

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"… We don’t lose our First Amendment rights just because we are a 501©(3) (nonprofit group) and just because this guy is running for re-election in a tight rac …"

"… e Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., solicited funding on behalf of this nonprofit group from high-tech companies such as Intel Corp. and Motorola to bolster …"

"… f Abrahams immigration policies.Americans for Tax Reform is a conservative nonprofit lobbying group run by the ubiquitous Republican consultant Grover Norquist …"

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