A federal judge has ruled that Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams cannot immediately begin raising and spending unlimited campaign contributions under a new state law. That's because she is not yet her party's nominee.
Georgia Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams wants a federal judge to let her immediately begin raising and spending unlimited sums. Abrams sued on Monday, challenging as unconstitutional new fundraising committees created by Georgia lawmakers last year.
Perdue’s lawyers say a bill signed into law by Kemp last year leaves the former senator at an unfair fundraising disadvantage by allowing high-ranking elected officials, including the sitting governor, to raise unlimited cash during the three-month legislative session leading up to the party primary using special “leadership committees.”
With several nationally watched races in 2022, Georgia candidates for U.S. Senate, House and other top offices are raising (and spending) serious money.
Kemp signed a bill allowing him and a handful of others to raise an unlimited amount of money starting July 1. To break down the legislation, GPB’s Rickey Bevington spoke with James Salzer, assistant senior editor for politics and state government at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The House on Thursday passed a Senate bill along party lines that would allow party leaders to create new organizations to raise unlimited funds for races and allow candidates to bypass fundraising limitations.
Adelson built a casino empire that stretched from Las Vegas to Singapore. His huge donations to conservative causes in the U.S. and Israel helped shape politics in both countries.
Money-in-politics groups have welcomed this unusually widespread — and self-initiated — reckoning by corporations over their own role in contributing to the nation's current political state.
Mayor Lovely Warren was indicted last week on felony charges. She has recently faced unrelated calls to resign over her handling of the Daniel Prude case.
Despite the booming stock market under President Trump, the finance sector is giving a bit more money to Democrats than to Republicans for the first time in more than a decade.
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