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Georgia Senate Runoffs Finish as Most Expensive in History, At Least 171 Million More Than Any Other On 1/6/21 at 4:38 PM EST The Georgia Senate runoffs finished as the most expensive races in history, as the candidates spent hundreds of thousands more than a previous record. According to Open Secrets, the David Perdue-Jon Ossoff race spent the most money with nearly $470 million as of January 4, and the Kelly Loeffler-Raphael Warnock race followed behind with nearly $363 million spent. Each of...

Posted by Jan Wondra | Dec 31, 2020 The past four-plus years have been a time of “alternative facts” and alternate realities; of lies masquerading as truth, and fiction being presented as fact. Being aware of, and using fact-checking resources has become more important than ever. Journalists of fact-based news organizations have been vilified in a year like no other; for doing our jobs, checking our facts and telling the truth.  The fact is — a rather large number of Americans don’t wa...

First published by Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper In the social media era, the Zondo Commission of Inquiry repeatedly and regularly trends on Twitter, Google and Facebook. In 2020, even as Covid-19 forced its hearings into the virtual rather than in the real world, the commission commanded national attention from January all the way to December. Judge Raymond Zondo, who chairs the commission and is the country’s Deputy Chief Justice, is now one of South Africa’s most recognisable membe...

Dear Justice Zondo, We the undersigned organisations, whistle-blowers and human rights activists, co-ordinated by Open Secrets, write to you as the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud enters its important final phase of work. We write to you today concerning a glaring gap in your work to date: framing the accountability of those corporations complicit in State Capture. There is an urgent need to call corporations to provide detailed evidence of their al...

Watchdog: Facebook CEO Influenced Election The Amistad Project is accusing Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg of influencing the election with his money. They’re asking whether it’s right to inject private money into public U-S elections. “This report and the evidence we’re gonna share today demonstrates that Mr. Zuckerberg’s funds flowing through charities, paid for the election judges, paid for the satellite offices to turn out the vote, paid for the machines, and dictated the policies th...

They made a different decision when judge roy moore. thats the new part, but until then, we operated under the clinton contract if you had the right political position you can put your interns in any position you want and people will circle the wagon and defend you. john conyers, not open secrets. and matt lauer, charlie rose, quote, open secrets. why didnt these media members go on the attack. i guarantee if they had been part of media out lets and different persuasions, that would have not onl...

Our conservative solutions so that they can help solve the problems for so many working middle-class families. that, that may not have the opportunity that we have. i know there is a lot of long faces here tonight. and it is disappointing. sure. >> cantors loss shows limits of big money and incumbency, as well look over the race, we can see he outspent his opponent not by double, quadruple, but by 25 times. eric cantor spent $5.4 million in the race to just about $200,000 according to the financ...

Been to iceland. the presidents norwegian ambassador designate knows next to nothing about norway. colleen bell is a produce on the soap opera "the bold and the beautiful." this is a big but. in addition to scanty knowledge of their host countries, these folks have something else in common. according to the nonpartisan open secrets campaign finance database, mr. mamet raised upwards of $603,000 for president obama and other democratic party candidates. mr. barber, $778,000. plus george sunez, no...

>> senator, i havent had the opportunity yet to be there. ive travelled pretty extensively around the world but i havent yet had a chance. >> thats noah bryson mamet the man president obama wants to be the ambassador to argentina. hes never been there. robert barber, the nominee for ambassador to iceland has never been to iceland. the presidents norwegian ambassador designate knows next to nothing about norway. colleen bell is a producer on the soap opera "the bold and the beautiful." in additio...

Thats according to data from watchdog group open secrets. and that is twice as much as john mccains campaign raised in that same campaign from private equity. so far this year, mitt romney has outraised obama $1.7 million to $396,000 for the president. lets huddle up around the water cooler to watch the dramatic conclusion of the scripps national spelling bee. a 14-year-old steps to the podium under espns hot lights with the country watching and nails the final word. >> guetapens. g-u-e-t-a-p-...