Reid Agrees to Fine for Campaign Finance Scheme
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 6th, 2011 4:32 am by HL
Reid Agrees to Fine for Campaign Finance Scheme
Failed Nevada gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid (D) “agreed to pay a $25,000 penalty from his own pocket to settle accusations he skirted campaign finance laws,” the Las Vegas Review Journal reports.
“Reid was accused of funneling more than $900,000 to his gubernatorial campaign last year through 90 shell organizations in an effort to bypass limits on political donations.”
Perry Gets Serious About Presidential Bid
Mike Allen: “Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), who had played coy about a 2012 presidential run but did not seem to be seriously considering it, is now talking about the possibility with his biggest financial backers in Texas. If Palin doesn’t get in, he sees a path to the nomination. Makes no sense to some of the nation’s top Republicans, who think American has Texas fatigue, and who found Perry’s comments about Texas secession to be boneheaded. Perry is still more likely to challenge Jeb in 2016.”
Operation Cupcake
British intelligence forces hacked into an al Qaeda website and replaced bombmaking instructions with a recipe for one of Ellen Degeneres’ favorite cupcakes, ABC News reports.
The Hollywoodification of Political Ads
NPR looks at some recent videos produced by Republican presidential candidates and notes one by Tim Pawlenty “with a soaring, heart-pounding score and lightning-fast edits” could be “the trailer for a Hollywood action flick.” Another by Mitt Romney is “almost as if you’re watching something produced by documentary filmmaker.”
Said Darrell West, author of Air Wars: Television Advertising in Election Campaigns: “Campaigns today really require a very strong storyline. There’s just so much information out there, you need a strong narrative to break through all that information clutter.”
